Moodi Mahmoudi

Moodi is co-founder and CEO of NEXT — a domain-tuned AI video platform for product discovery and customer insights that teams use to bring their customers’ perspective to the ways they build, market and sell their products. In full agentic mode, NEXT captures, understands, and harmonizes customer interaction data (Gong, Zoom, and other recordings but also surveys data or reviews) into insights teams in product, marketing and beyond use to act on pricing feedback, competitor intel, win/loss drivers, user pain points, and product feature requests.
Launched in April 2023, the team behind NEXT combines deep know-how in human-centric design at Stanford d.school, Hasso Plattner Ventures, and IDEO with the latest in AI technology to build a platform that lets organizations inform every decision, workflow and ritual customer insights. Clients include Bosch, Lipton, Action, Wahi, and PaperCut.

Prior to NEXT, Moodi was VP for Optimal, a private-equity backed SAP solutions provider, where he was part of the management team that raised $100 million to accelerate growth and international expansion that led to the company’s acquisition by NTT Data Corporation. Moodi joined Optimal after the successful acquisition in 2008 of KBMS, a leading provider of SAP-based solutions he founded in 2005. Moodi started his first venture in his McGill dorm room in 1999 building Canada’s first online classified ads company, uswap.com.
Moodi studied at McGill University, MIT Sloan, and holds an MBA from INSEAD.