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Next Play Ventures

Venture Capital

Coaching and investing in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations.

Founded 2014 United States Menlo Park, United States 5 employees E-Commerce, Education +2

33

Total Investments

28

Portfolio Companies

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Exits

4

Industries

General Information

Industries E-Commerce, Education +2

Company Overview

Founded 2014
Employees 5
Location United States Menlo Park, United States

Investment Criteria

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About Next Play Ventures

Our mission is to coach and invest in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations. Led by Jeff Weiner and Brian Rumao. Sector focus areas include B2B / enterprise software, financial tech, consumer apps, health and wellness and education. We are interested in productivity software and virtual work, direct-to-consumer / e-commerce, SaaS, and data and AI/ML-powered platforms Investments include: Bicycle Health, Brex, Brightwheel, Brilliant, Browser Company, Cameo, Cloudera (IPO: CLDR), Common Room, Cricket Health, CurlMix, EdLyft, Encantos, Esusu, Everfi, Evervault, Fast, Figma, Gather, Ginger, Hatch, Headspace, Linktree, Little Passports, LogicGate, Nana Academy, Notion, Pace, Pine Field, Scale, Seesaw, Slack (IPO: WORK), SpoonfulOne, Toucan, Trala, Truework, Vox Media, Wellthy, Wildlife Studios.

Recent Investments (33)

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Company Stage Amount Date
Seed Round •••••• May 2023
Series A •••••• Mar 2023
Series A •••••• Oct 2022
Seed Round •••••• Jan 2022
Seed Round •••••• Oct 2021
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Series A •••••• May 2021

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