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APRIL 27, 2020

We can stay busy by expending time and effort supporting the existing portfolio, which is the right thing to do and a good use of time. Like most VC’s, we’ve been engrossed in helping our portfolio company founders navigate these challenging times while thinking through how we will approach this market going forward. Wait and see.

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MAY 24, 2021

You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. You will spend the rest of your time working alongside the partners throughout the investment process – analyzing investment opportunities, assisting in market research and diligence, and post-investment portfolio support.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Stephano Kim – SVP Ad Operations and Chief Data Strategist of Turner Broadcasting System (President of [x+1] at the time he first joined our group of advisors). So if they’re not just names on a page, how are these entrepreneur advisors involved with us at NextView and our portfolio companies? Portfolio'

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Although Jack is relatively early in his career, he brings with him a wealth of knowledge as an operator and investor from his experiences at fintech unicorn Better.com, Common Ocean, and Goldman Sachs.

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JUNE 24, 2020

After operating quietly for the past year, our portfolio company Jumbo made a couple big announcements yesterday, including the launch of Jumbo 2 as well as their $8M series A financing led by Balderton Capital.

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JUNE 23, 2022

Automating their end-to-end eCommerce operations (from managing inventory to order fulfillment to customer service). We are cash flow positive and can operate indefinitely without external funding. Creating storefronts for influencers that also connect to their social commerce platforms (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube).

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Although Jack is relatively early in his career, he brings with him a wealth of knowledge as an operator and investor from his experiences at fintech unicorn Better.com, Common Ocean, and Goldman Sachs.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Although Jack is relatively early in his career, he brings with him a wealth of knowledge as an operator and investor from his experiences at fintech unicorn Better.com, Common Ocean, and Goldman Sachs.

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New York Portfolio Founder Operations 156

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Examples of such companies in our portfolio include WHOOP , which delivers personalized health insights via a wearable device, Devoted Health , which assists seniors in accessing Medicare Advantage, and Mighty Health , which helps individuals find a healthier path through coaching.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The flood of seed-funded companies coupled with proliferation of seed funds willing to underwrite incremental capital into new and existing portfolio companies, has yielded a broad backlog set of “seed startups” with wild variations across the following three dimensions: 1. The bar for Series A has moved.

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JULY 14, 2020

Today, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Opus , announced its rebrand as well as their $2M seed round. A certified ESL instructor who has been on the frontline herself in numerous kitchen and operational roles, she knows both training delivery and her audience intimately well.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Nicole is not new to the NextView family… previously she had worked for a NextView portfolio company that for a while was even working out of our Boston offices! We want to help founders both inside and outside of our portfolio with the things which we think matter most: 1. So we’re glad to have her (back) on board. raising capital).

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JANUARY 11, 2023

We wholeheartedly believe in the potential of each company we select; the smaller batch size allows the NextView partners, who possess deep operating and founding experiences at companies like LinkedIn, PayPal, eBay, and Blue Apron, the space to spend meaningful one-on-one time with each founder every single week. Who We Are.

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MAY 29, 2019

This segment of the market is basically mirroring other segments of the venture ecosystem which has operated this way for some time. Before seed funds institutionalized, most also made many more investments than they do today, so their time was spread across a larger portfolio. Repercussions for Investors. Repercussions for Founders.

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JULY 24, 2015

Still others point to the collective sensibility and logic of New Englanders as an operating philosophy. Half our portfolio is consumer. Co-founder and COO Paul Liberman helped the audience look under the hood in how they operate with such a data-obsessed tilt: . Some say it’s a marketing and story-telling problem.

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AUGUST 13, 2014

Pros of taking their angel money include the feeder system to venture financing of the next round and the vast network of portfolio CEOs which can be tapped into for connections and help. Cons of an investment from a Super Angel include potential lack of “value-add” because his or her time is spread so thin amongst many portfolio companies.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In recent years, cannabis has emerged as a legal industry, and thus, companies operating in this new market have often had to find or build new software stacks in order to operate their businesses. Dispense is a B2B software company, focused on transaction software specifically designed for the cannabis industry.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Last week, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Ten Little , came out of stealth and announced its public launch. . To round out the founding team, Julie brings an extremely complementary experience in operations from Jet.com and eos products. We were excited to be the first to say yes and lead the $2.6M

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MAY 28, 2020

Much of the food supply chain has operated the same way for years, and technology has created ample opportunities for innovation and improvement across the entire supply chain. Meat processing companies across the country have paused operations at plants where workers have tested positive for COVID.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. in our portfolio. 4 Operating Philosophies Affecting Series A Raises. The mean Series A size was $5.2M. average versus $4.9M They are: 1.

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Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Startup 333

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This tends to be how endowments and large foundations operate, for example. These groups are investing in funds to get a good return, but perhaps more importantly, to be able to track their portfolios and be able to deploy more dollars in later rounds directly and with lower fees. Some LPs are buying unique access.

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LP Customer Early Stage Portfolio 309

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In recent years, cannabis has emerged as a legal industry, and thus, companies operating in this new market have often had to find or build new software stacks in order to operate their businesses. Dispense is a B2B software company, focused on transaction software specifically designed for the cannabis industry.

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JULY 11, 2019

On Tuesday, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Otis, came out of stealth and announced its public launch. It will be hard to predict exactly what this will mean for the way these markets operate. Otis hopes to change all of these things.

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Stealth Portfolio Community Founder 120

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In recent years, cannabis has emerged as a legal industry, and thus, companies operating in this new market have often had to find or build new software stacks in order to operate their businesses. Dispense is a B2B software company, focused on transaction software specifically designed for the cannabis industry.

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Cofounder B2B Early Stage Software 156

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AUGUST 26, 2015

Overall, I’d recommend being pretty prolific (5-10 investments a year), writing reasonably small checks at first, and thinking of your investments in 18-36 month cohorts of companies or mini portfolios. This is sometimes really tough for former operators. There are a lot of options here, so I don’t want to go into much detail.

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Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

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AUGUST 26, 2015

Overall, I’d recommend being pretty prolific (5-10 investments a year), writing reasonably small checks at first, and thinking of your investments in 18-36 month cohorts of companies or mini portfolios. This is sometimes really tough for former operators. There are a lot of options here, so I don’t want to go into much detail.

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Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

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APRIL 18, 2018

create and edit content for our Medium publication, spearhead our events series, run portfolio-specific programming, etc.), Self-directed individual who is good operating with limited structure. In this role, you will manage several of our current founder-focused initiatives (e.g. High intellectual horsepower and initiative.

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Networking Hiring Boston New York 168

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making. Candidate archetypes?

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Analytics Hiring SQL Forecast 149

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JANUARY 10, 2022

Everyone in the NextView partnership has deep operating experience as founders and operators scaling high-growth internet companies (e.g. We’re also including facilitated, hands-on mentorship from experienced advisors, tactical experts, and portfolio founders. Who we are. LinkedIn, PayPal, eBay, Blue Apron).

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APRIL 24, 2019

Our NextView portfolio company, Attentive Mobile , provides a tech platform for these retailers to employ these text campaigns.). On the commercial side, increasingly ecommerce retailers have started to use SMS as a two-way communications channel with their customers.

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

Portfolio companies can contact us to learn more.) There’s not one ultimate way of operating, but you should know you team and ask them direct questions about how they learn and how they handle these types of things. This interview covers a wide range of topics also covered in our workshops. office, right in the heart of MIT.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

That thinking led us to the approach and operating principles we have today. We have invested in building a platform to benefit our portfolio even though we are smaller and younger than many other venture funds. And hopefully up-and-to-the-right motion as we are obsessed with helping our portfolio companies achieve just that.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

We are already seeing this happen with our portfolio company Grove Collaborative , which is increasingly rethinking the form factor of CPG products. If you are a founder who is looking to use digital technologies to redesign the way we live and how the housing industry operates, please have a conversation with us.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

Some VC firms have eschewed taking direct investments from public pension funds, as state laws now sometimes require these pension funds to publicly disclose information about their investments that VCs consider sensitive, confidential info, like fund-level returns or individual companies in the portfolio. Endowments. new buildings, etc).

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APRIL 27, 2022

We were extremely impressed by Joe and his co-founders Bo and Megan when we first met them – they are a great combination of seasoned operators who have helped scale companies from 0 to 100, with directly relevant domain experience from FutureAdvisor, BlackRock, Unison, and Goldman Sachs.

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Equity Cofounder Acquisition Restful 156

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AUGUST 5, 2014

Our operations manager Rob notes that he wouldn’t have been able to get a pup without this flexibility. Portfolio' Remote Work Policy: Our employees work remote when it makes sense for them, personally and professionally. Generally, folks head into the office 3-4 days per week as a result.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

On paper, VC portfolios perform well. Two of the three have gross margins <50% (AMZN is 40%, AAPL 38%, MSFT 67%) and one has operating profit margins <5% (AMZN 4%, AAPL 22%, MSFT 34%). Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. 2017-2018: Rediscovery of Unit Economics.

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