Samsung Next

We focus broadly on these technology areas, but invest opportunistically in founders pursuing the imagined and impossible. Artificial Intelligence The next generation of artificial intelligence explores approaches beyond pattern recognition - approaches that require less data and less compute power, and perform powerfully in complex conditions. Blockchain Trustless, open, and decentralized protocols will permeate our closed and broken online experience; blockchains have the ability to create powerful, new, disintermediated business models and experiences. Fintech Financial interactions are an integral part of our daily lives. Innovations in financial technology promise to alter how every consumer, creator, and business in the world transacts with each other. Healthtech Wearables, sensors, and wellness data are being integrated into clinical environments, and producing data to deliver better health outcomes with more convenience and lower cost. Infrastructure Open source cloud-native computing has reached the infrastructure edge, which will enable billions of devices to make compute, security, networking, and storage more efficient. Mediatech Media is evolving to power immersive, social, and hyper-personalized experiences through gaming, synthetic media, and mixed reality.

New Stack leads rounds at the angel, pre-seed, or seed stage. We typically invest between $500k and $1.5M into startups that are pre-revenue, in pilots/PoCs, or early Commercialization. Focus Areas New Stack invests broadly across sectors, categories, and business types. The team has unique expertise in the following areas: Enterprise SaaS, Legacy Industry SaaS Marketplaces, Platforms HardTech, IoT Philosophy At New Stack, we invest in outsiders. Our startups don't look like what's commonly funded in Silicon Valley. The standard formula of Stanford educated, Google trained, Bay Area-located is NOT what we're looking for. We believe in mission-driven founders with an irrational commitment to their cause --regardless of location or circumstance. Themes that we look for include:TRACTABLE: Tools that give non-experts, expert capabilities UGV: Platforms that empower users to generate value ACCESS TO IDLE SUPPLY: Activating idle capacity TROJAN HORSE: Targeted beachhead provides access to broader opportunity NETWORK EFFECTS: Value increases as users increase BD INNOVATION: Customer acquisition strategy is as novel as the product COMPETING W/ NON-CONSUMPTION: Turning non-consumers into consumers MOUNTING LOSS: As individual usage increases, switching costs increase

R77 Global provides integrated HR infrastructure for companies operating across borders, combining executive search, global payroll processing, and fractional HR leadership under a single service model. The Malta-based firm enables clients to hire, compensate, and manage teams in more than 180 regions without establishing local legal entities - a model designed to reduce the administrative overhead typically associated with international expansion. Core clients span technology, payments, gaming, and finance sectors. The company's service architecture addresses three distinct phases of workforce scaling. Its executive search practice focuses on senior-level placements across its target verticals. The global payroll platform handles compensation and compliance in jurisdictions where clients lack legal presence, processing payments through R77's own infrastructure. Fractional HR leadership and on-demand C-level professionals provide interim strategic capacity, allowing organizations to access executive-level expertise on flexible terms rather than through permanent hires. R77 also offers specialized support for organizational inflection points, including change management programmes and HR workstreams during mergers and acquisitions. This positioning reflects a broader shift in how mid-market and growth-stage companies approach international operations - prioritizing speed to market and capital efficiency over building standalone country operations. The firm's model is particularly relevant for businesses testing new geographies or managing distributed teams ahead of achieving the scale that would justify dedicated local subsidiaries.

Samsung Venture Investment Corporation was established to promote promising small and medium-sized companies engaging in the development of new technologies. Our collaboration is based on managerial know-how and trust. Samsung has achieved a marketing leading position in many of the products that define today’s world including smartphones, smart TV, memory, OLED panels and lithium ion batteries. Samsung is firmly maintaining leadership positions in these highly competitive markets, while simultaneously investing in new growth markets. Samsung Venture Investment plays the role of driving the discovery and development of new businesses and technologies. As Samsung Group's venture investment arm, we aim to promote an open innovation environment. In a globalized world we need to anticipate new global challenges and support the creation of new industries that can surpass our past results. Samsung Venture Investment’s mission is to be a global pioneering CVC that contributes to society and the Samsung group. Our major investment areas Semiconductors, telecommunication, software, internet, bio engineering and medical industry from start-ups to established companies that are about to be listed on the stock market. We provide a comprehensive total solution, which includes not only investment funds but also management support, technical support and market registration.

We are more than just an investment firm. We aim to innovate the investment firm itself. Fast Ventures creates a new venture capital model.