Craig Hanson

General Partner, NextWorld Capital

📍 Menlo Park, California, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 19 investments📅 24 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2020
Operator-angel🌍 United States
19
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VC Investor and Board Observer
2020
Docugami is Generative AI for business documents. Our patented AI is designed and trained exclusively for business scenarios, to automatically unlock the critical information in your companys documents and use that information to generate reports, insights, new documents, and data streams to power your business processes. Docugami provides a family of Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on millions of Business Documents, ranging from 2.7B to 20B parameters. Docugami is designed to provide immediate value to front-line business users and managers, without costly investments in IT projects or training. Docugami turns your unique business documents into data; all content generated is derived exclusively from your own business documents -- not random content on the Internet -- minimizing any potential for erroneous or inappropriate content generation. Each customers data, feedback, and generated content are completely separate and secure. Docugami is cross-segment and in the market today in a variety of vertical industry segments, including Commercial Insurance, Commercial Real Estate, Technology, a wide range of Professional Services sectors, and more. Hiring Machine Learning PhD/MS Students & Brilliant Developers. Contact Jean Paoli at jeanpa@docugami.com
VC Investor
2020
Jirav is an all-in-one financial planning and analysis (FP&A) solution that delivers smarter financials and faster insights, helping you understand where your business has been and more accurately predict where you’re going. The system connects financial and operational data to easily explore historicals, and accurately forecast bookings, revenues, workforce, expenses, and cash flows. At Jirav, we’re creating a people-focused culture where the innovative and passionate feel at home. We’re here to build something different—something we believe is the future of financial technology. We chose the name “Jirav” for a reason. Like the giraffe and its astounding height, our solution gives finance leaders the best view possible—both historically and future-looking—so they can drive their businesses forward with confidence and speed. And like a giraffe’s spots, which are unique to each individual giraffe, our company is different from others like us in the market. We’ve made complex financial forecasting and modeling affordable and accessible to businesses and teams of any size. And while financial models may look alike and be built similarly, the internal components are unique to the company the models are built for (much like a giraffe’s spots—you see where we’re going with this), and Jirav can work with it all to lead any business down a path to faster growth. There’s never been a better time to join Jirav as we continue to scale and expand our own team, and what we can offer our customers. In our pursuit to own our space in the market, the contribution of each and every member of the Jirav Tower (did you know a group of giraffes is called a “tower?”) is incredibly important to our success. Joining the Jirav team is an opportunity to do your best work and expand your skills as you grow your career alongside the companies we empower as we push the limits and change the world of strategic finance. Explore our open roles today and find your perfect career fit!
VC Investor
2020
Spiff automates and optimizes commissions plans (goodbye Excel spreadsheets) and motivates commissioned reps. Our goal is to solve the headache of running commissions for the finance team, reduce friction between finance and sales, and increase sales performance.
VC Investor
2019
Grain automates note-taking, record-keeping, and insight capture from every customer conversation.
VC Investor and Board Observer
2019
Stampli is for Accounts Payable teams that want the efficiency of automation, but don’t want to rework their ERP or change their existing AP processes. Unlike other solutions, Stampli provides full support for the full range of native functionality for more than 70 ERPs — enabling us to deploy in a matter of days, not months, with no disruption to your business. Stampli brings all of your AP-related communication, documentation, and workflows into one place for complete visibility and control. It’s simple for users to learn and even simpler to use, especially with Billy the Bot™ automating nearly all of your capture, coding, routing, fraud detection, and other manual tasks. For even greater efficiency, Stampli’s core AP solution is complemented by a suite of integrated products that include Direct Pay, Credit Cards, Advanced Vendor Management, and others. Stampli provides complete visibility and control over your entire AP program. It reduces the risk of errors, fraud, and compliance issues while improving vendor relationships and making your AP processes much more efficient. For more information, visit www.stampli.com.
VC Investor
2017
HeadSpins data science-driven platform helps businesses identify and fix issues that impact user experience, improve app performance, and enhance user engagement. With HeadSpins data science capabilities, businesses can stay ahead of the competition and meet their business goals.
VC Investor
2015
Aviso delivers Agentic AI that turns insights into autonomous actions, giving GTM teams precision, speed, and control to drive predictable growth at scale. As an end-to-end revenue platform, Aviso AI replaces fragmented point solutions and unifies the entire revenue lifecycle from lead to renewal into a single AI operating system, cutting tech stack costs down by up to 50%. Through Halo (AI Single Pane of Glass) and role-based AI Avatars, Aviso AI accelerates qualification, sharpens forecasts, and closes revenue gaps in real time. Trusted by Lenovo, NetApp, BMC, RingCentral, to achieve up to 98%+ forecast accuracy, 20% higher win rates, and 20 hours saved per rep per week. Recognized by IDC, Gartner, Forrester, and G2. Learn more at www.aviso.com.
VC Investor and Board Member to IPO
2013
Zuora was born out of a vision that we could evangelize a fundamentally new way of doing business by shifting the focus of companies to deliver recurring, people-centric services instead of a one-time sale of products. This is how we coined the term, the Subscription Economy®. Today, we see others evangelizing this term, and building entire communities around it. The Subscription Economy isn’t (and never was) just about subscription business models but, direct, recurring relationships with customers through any business model. Subscriptions were only just scratching the surface and now, the market recognizes the Subscription Economy for what it truly is-a relationship-centric economy. Companies have realized that the path to growth going forward is to establish direct, digital relationships with their customers, and to nurture and monetize these relationships through an ever growing set of digital services. Alongside this evolution, Zuora has been there every step of the way. We started with Zuora Billing, and have expanded our award-winning multi-product portfolio to include Zuora Revenue, Zuora Payments and Zuora Platform. More recently, we’ve added Zephr and Togai to our family, further expanding our capabilities to serve as an intelligent hub that monetizes the complete quote to cash and revenue recognition process at scale. We call this Monetization.
VC Investor and Board Observer
2012
At GoodData, we help companies turn data into insights. Our leading composable data and analytics platform gives our customers the flexibility to build and scale any of their data use cases — from self-service and embeddable analytics, to machine learning and IoT — all while maintaining the performance, cost-efficiency, and easy change management of a central and integrated solution. Our team at GoodData is on a mission to empower all users, no matter their technical proficiency, to make decisions with accuracy and confidence.
VC Investor and Board Member
2011
We’ve merged with Pivot3. Pivot3 now delivers a compelling combination of hyperconverged and flash storage solutions that will dramatically improve data center simplicity, agility, economics, and application user experience. To learn more, visit us at https://www.linkedin.com/company/pivot3.
VC Investor and Board Member
2010
DynamicOps’ Operations Virtualization™ platform enables enterprise IT to create on-demand private and public cloud services in days from existing systems and business processes. Customers realize unparalleled time-to-cloud value while protecting existing investments, and have a clear path for a controlled evolution to next-generation cloud services. Our Background DynamicOps was founded in 2008 by Credit Suisse based on its five years of successful, large-scale production deployment with what is now known as DynamicOps Virtual Resource Manager (VRM) software. Before clouds were clouds, the bank developed VRM to address the operational and governance challenges of rolling out virtualization technology across a global organization comprising several distinct businesses. The financial industry is one of the most demanding with regards to policies and security. With HQ in Switzerland, standards were even stricter. The team at Credit Suisse knew they were onto something when VRM was so successful internally. Credit Suisse formed DynamicOps to expand the offering. What markets does DynamicOps serve? DynamicOps addresses the needs of enterprises with complex datacenters looking to rapidly create on-demand private and public cloud services. Enterprises in the financial, media, healthcare, higher education and government sectors are realizing faster time-to-cloud value by streamlining and evolving their IT services with DynamicOps.
VC Investor and Board Member
2010
Planful (formerly Host Analytics) is a leading financial planning and analysis (FP&A) cloud platform. Planful delivers a vision of Continuous Planning by accelerating the end-to-end FP&A process and fostering business-wide participation in agile planning and decision-making. More than 800 customers including, Bose, Boston Red Sox, Del Monte, TGI Friday’s, and 23andMe rely on Planful for financial planning and budgeting, dynamic operational planning, financial consolidations, reporting, and visual analytics. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm specializing in transformational investments in established technology businesses. Learn more at www.planful.com.
VC Investor
2005
Stratavia is the industry's leading independent provider of Data Center Automation solutions. Stratavia's flagship solution, Data Palette, is based upon an intelligent Run Book Automation platform, which automates complex, error-prone, and manually intensive yet repetitive IT administration tasks. Fortune 1000 companies rely on Data Palette to define, build and execute standard operating procedures, and report on mission-critical applications and IT operations. Founded in 2001, Stratavia is privately held and venture funded and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. For more information, please visit www.stratavia.com.
VC Investor
2002
Dante Software is a software company. We focus on a nearshore .NET web development.
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2020
VC Investor and Board Observer
2020
Docugami is Generative AI for business documents. Our patented AI is designed and trained exclusively for business scenarios, to automatically unlock the critical information in your companys documents and use that information to generate reports, insights, new documents, and data streams to power your business processes. Docugami provides a family of Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on millions of Business Documents, ranging from 2.7B to 20B parameters. Docugami is designed to provide immediate value to front-line business users and managers, without costly investments in IT projects or training. Docugami turns your unique business documents into data; all content generated is derived exclusively from your own business documents -- not random content on the Internet -- minimizing any potential for erroneous or inappropriate content generation. Each customers data, feedback, and generated content are completely separate and secure. Docugami is cross-segment and in the market today in a variety of vertical industry segments, including Commercial Insurance, Commercial Real Estate, Technology, a wide range of Professional Services sectors, and more. Hiring Machine Learning PhD/MS Students & Brilliant Developers. Contact Jean Paoli at jeanpa@docugami.com
VC Investor
2020
Jirav is an all-in-one financial planning and analysis (FP&A) solution that delivers smarter financials and faster insights, helping you understand where your business has been and more accurately predict where you’re going. The system connects financial and operational data to easily explore historicals, and accurately forecast bookings, revenues, workforce, expenses, and cash flows. At Jirav, we’re creating a people-focused culture where the innovative and passionate feel at home. We’re here to build something different—something we believe is the future of financial technology. We chose the name “Jirav” for a reason. Like the giraffe and its astounding height, our solution gives finance leaders the best view possible—both historically and future-looking—so they can drive their businesses forward with confidence and speed. And like a giraffe’s spots, which are unique to each individual giraffe, our company is different from others like us in the market. We’ve made complex financial forecasting and modeling affordable and accessible to businesses and teams of any size. And while financial models may look alike and be built similarly, the internal components are unique to the company the models are built for (much like a giraffe’s spots—you see where we’re going with this), and Jirav can work with it all to lead any business down a path to faster growth. There’s never been a better time to join Jirav as we continue to scale and expand our own team, and what we can offer our customers. In our pursuit to own our space in the market, the contribution of each and every member of the Jirav Tower (did you know a group of giraffes is called a “tower?”) is incredibly important to our success. Joining the Jirav team is an opportunity to do your best work and expand your skills as you grow your career alongside the companies we empower as we push the limits and change the world of strategic finance. Explore our open roles today and find your perfect career fit!
VC Investor
2020
Spiff automates and optimizes commissions plans (goodbye Excel spreadsheets) and motivates commissioned reps. Our goal is to solve the headache of running commissions for the finance team, reduce friction between finance and sales, and increase sales performance.
2019
Stealth startup 2
VC Investor
2019
Stealth startup
VC Investor and Board Member
2019
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