Samsung NEXT

Samsung NEXT is an innovation group within Samsung Electronics that focuses on identifying and pursuing new growth opportunities. Through Samsung NEXT Ventures, it acts as the company’s venture capital arm, investing in early-stage startups and technologies with potential to redefine multiple industries. The group targets areas including artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, health technology, infrastructure, media technology, software, and related fields such as robotics and drones. By combining internal startup acceleration with external investments, Samsung NEXT aims to accelerate technology adoption and create scalable platforms that complement Samsung’s hardware and software ecosystems.

Sam Campbell

Investor

Carlos Castellanos

Venture Capitalist

Leo Chang

Principal

Andy Duong

Principal

Lizzy Goldman

Investor

Past deals in Infrastructure

Ceramic.ai

Seed Round in 2025
Ceramic.ai builds enterprise-grade infrastructure to optimize how companies train and deploy their AI models

Prometeo

Series A in 2024
Prometeo is a fintech infrastructure company that provides an open banking platform with a standardized API for access to banking information and payments. It connects global corporations with a network of financial institutions in Latin America and the United States, delivering broad connectivity through a single API. The platform enables secure access to banking data, bank account validation, and account-to-account payments, supporting cross-border operations and simplifying global payments. By reducing friction and costs, Prometeo helps enterprises manage financial data and streamline cross-border financial workflows.

Koyeb

Seed Round in 2023
Koyeb is a developer-focused serverless platform provider that enables organizations to deploy, run, and scale web applications, APIs, and AI workloads across multiple cloud environments. The platform eliminates server and infrastructure management by automating deployment and orchestration on high-performance hardware, including GPUs, accelerators, and CPUs. It supports data processing and storage across clouds, enabling global delivery with a developer-friendly experience and rapid deployment. Founded in 2019 and based in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, Koyeb positions itself as a third-generation cloud platform that optimizes cross-cloud performance and simplifies event-driven workloads.

MachineFi

Seed Round in 2022
MachineFi Lab is a company focused on the development of Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain technologies. It specializes in creating a software platform that integrates various machines, providing a comprehensive infrastructure suite. This suite includes an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) blockchain, a multichain crypto wallet, a blockchain bridge, and an onboarding platform. Additionally, MachineFi Lab offers software development kits (SDKs) that empower developers to build applications and establish machine networks. Through its innovative solutions, the company aims to enhance connectivity and functionality within the IoT ecosystem.

Mysten Labs

Series A in 2021
Mysten Labs develops tools to enhance web3 security and facilitate its widespread adoption. They create foundational infrastructure to accelerate the integration of decentralized services across multiple chains, improving underlying technologies like distributed systems and cryptography.

Zesty.co

Series A in 2021
Zesty Ltd. is a company that specializes in cloud cost management solutions, offering a platform designed to optimize cloud infrastructure for businesses. Founded in 2018 and based in Ramat Gan, Israel, Zesty’s AI-driven technology automates cloud cost optimization by dynamically adjusting resources in real-time according to application needs. Its key features include Commitment Manager, which manages reserved instances and savings plans; EBS Auto-scaler, which right-sizes EBS volumes automatically; Resource Cleaner, which decommissions unused resources; and Spot Instances. The platform provides users with full visibility and control over resource costs, enabling them to monitor utilization and predict expenses based on usage patterns. By automating these processes, Zesty helps engineering teams maximize cloud savings and minimize waste, significantly reducing overall cloud spending.

Packet

Series B in 2018
Packet is a cloud hosting provider that specializes in automated bare metal infrastructure, serving enterprises, SaaS companies, and software innovators. The company's platform enables automation of physical servers and networks, offering a seamless experience without relying on virtualization or multi-tenancy. Packet operates over 20 global public cloud locations and facilitates more than 60,000 deployments each month across its extensive network of data centers and private sites. This flexibility allows customers to manage custom hardware both on-premises and at edge locations, making it suitable for a wide range of workloads, from traditional applications to cloud-native solutions. By providing reliable and scalable infrastructure, Packet empowers organizations to leverage technology as a competitive advantage.

LiquidSky

Convertible Note in 2017
LiquidSky Software is an online platform founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States, that focuses on streaming interactive applications and experiences. The company specializes in cloud gaming and thin-client computing, offering a gaming and content delivery network that allows users to access high-performance applications on low-end devices. By enhancing load balancing, storage, networking, scheduling, and streaming capabilities, LiquidSky aims to provide reduced latency and an improved interactive experience for its users.

LiquidSky

Convertible Note in 2016
LiquidSky Software is an online platform founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States, that focuses on streaming interactive applications and experiences. The company specializes in cloud gaming and thin-client computing, offering a gaming and content delivery network that allows users to access high-performance applications on low-end devices. By enhancing load balancing, storage, networking, scheduling, and streaming capabilities, LiquidSky aims to provide reduced latency and an improved interactive experience for its users.

SafeDK

Series A in 2016
SafeDK is a mobile SDK management platform based in Herzliya, Israel, designed to assist enterprises and mobile developers in managing third-party tools within their applications. The company provides an infrastructure solution that enhances the security, stability, and quality of service of mobile apps by monitoring and controlling the behavior of integrated SDKs in real-time. SafeDK’s platform enables application publishers to gain comprehensive insights into the advertisements displayed in their apps while identifying and reporting privacy, performance, and stability issues. This helps clients maximize the advantages of using third-party tools while minimizing associated risks.

LiquidSky

Seed Round in 2016
LiquidSky Software is an online platform founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States, that focuses on streaming interactive applications and experiences. The company specializes in cloud gaming and thin-client computing, offering a gaming and content delivery network that allows users to access high-performance applications on low-end devices. By enhancing load balancing, storage, networking, scheduling, and streaming capabilities, LiquidSky aims to provide reduced latency and an improved interactive experience for its users.
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