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JANUARY 11, 2023

TLDR. With three accelerator cohorts under our belts and 17 graduated teams to turn to for feedback, we’re more confident than ever that our white-glove approach has lent itself well to the kind of program our industry was lacking. We’re running our high conviction, hands-on accelerator program back, we’re maintaining our clear financial terms (hey $400k), but this time around, we’re making a few meaningful changes to directly address the state of the world we’re living in, namely our updated

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It’s become a cliche in our technology startup world: disruptive technologies start as toys and are dismissed as such. The criticism gets louder as the realization starts setting in… the realization of just how much the tech will truly change the status quo. In the creative realms of music, written word, and visual imagery – previous new technologies have encountered this skepticism. .

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JULY 21, 2022

Company: I Have This Friend. Founders: Ingrid Hung & Emily Persky . “Emily and Ingrid have a very compelling thesis about a horizontal marketplace that allows for the opportunity to build repeat usages across different lifestyle occasions. Their backgrounds working at Instagram and USHG give them unique insights into how to work with both talents and consumers.” – Melody Koh.

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JULY 19, 2022

Company: nudgem. Founder: Stelios Kapandais. “Amassing more zero-party data is going to be critical as targeting abilities are constrained by iOS 14 changes and the upcoming removal of cookies. Stelios has a compelling vision for nudgem that allows ecommerce merchants to gather data across the entire user journey and unify those data points to build enriched customer profiles for robust personalization.” – Melody Koh.

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JULY 14, 2022

Index investing has been one of the most transformative forces in the investing world over the last several decades, starting with index mutual funds pioneered by Jack Bogle’s Vanguard Group, and today, evolving to a panoply of exchange-traded funds. Well over $10 trillion in assets are invested in index funds, enabling millions of everyday people to invest in a broad basket of stocks in a low-cost way to build wealth, save for retirement, and other goals.

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JULY 13, 2022

Company: Waivr. Founders: Carolina Nucamendi & Brenna Curran. “Waivr is building the payments infrastructure for the next generation of recurring payments businesses. There’s a new set of real-time payments protocols which Waiver is making more broadly available to bring fast, secure, and cost-effective payments to a range of applications.” – Lee Hower.

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JUNE 30, 2022

Company: Balletic Foods. Founders: Anita Broellochs & Alex Shirazi. “Balletic’s fermentation technology offers the promise of the best of both worlds: all of the benefits of consuming true animal protein without the environmental and ethical challenges of eating meat.” – David Beisel. Get to know the business. Rachel Hodes (RH): What problem exists in the market that your business is trying to solve?

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JUNE 23, 2022

Company: Influencer Direct. Founder: Dennis Chim. “Creators don’t want to just refer traffic towards random products to make money, but rather prefer to directly sell products which they truly believe in. Influencer Direct puts the tools to create their own eCommerce business directly into the hands of influencers.” – David Beisel.

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MAY 3, 2022

Flyp’s model is quite unique, as it isn’t directly focused on the shopping consumer, but rather, on re sellers who sell on the re commerce marketplaces (like thredUP or competitors such as Poshmark or The RealReal). The company has recruited a network of tens of thousands of small online resellers, frequently individual stay-at-home entrepreneurs, onto its platform.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Who We Are Looking For. You have unbounded curiosity for emerging trends, a love for experimentation, and you’re always eager to dive into new products and technologies before others do. You have 5-10 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, and/or investor. You have a strong network in the NYC startup ecosystem that is additive to our team.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

TLDR. With two successful accelerators under our belts, we’ve proven that going back to basics with smaller cohort sizes and zero demo days works. We’ve also proven that giving new, underrepresented, and geographically diverse founders a dedicated, hands-on chance leads to follow-on funding and additional accelerator success across the board. We’re running our new and improved accelerator program back, we’re doubling our offering and raising the valuation cap (hello $400K) , and we’d love for yo

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I was doing a virtual AMA with a terrific group of underrepresented founders from Visible Hands last week and the conversation turned a little personal. We were talking a bit about the challenges of building a startup and how to persist and maintain a productive outlook in the face of setbacks. I reflected a little on my own experience as well as on the experience of the hundreds of founders we have backed at NextView.

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JULY 26, 2021

I’m very excited to announce our investment in YAA. You can read the update from the company’s CEO Zach here , and we are excited to be partnering with our friends at Flybridge and Long Journey on this investment. . YAA is a service that empowers consumers to have more confidence and success in purchasing and owning an automobile. A car is likely the second largest purchase in a consumer’s life with significant downstream costs of maintenance and ownership.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

As seed stage investors here at NextView Ventures , we have the privilege of working with a wide profile of founders at the company conception stage — from early-career first time entrepreneurs , to seasoned execs turned founders , to repeat successful entrepreneurs. Our investment in Correlated , which was announced today in conjunction with the company’s official product launch falls into the latter category.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Today Hologram announced their $65M Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global. Hologram is a leader in enabling large-scale connectivity of internet of things (IoT) devices, across the globe with 400+ wireless carriers, all through a robust but easy-to-use API. The Hologram story is near and dear to our hearts here at NextView for a number of reasons.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. We’ll probably do a few of these over the next few months as we make our way back around the country and folks get more comfortable meeting in larger groups in person. Part of the reason to do this was just to reconnect after a long time apart.

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IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 136

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I’m excited to announce that Jack Abramowitz has joined our investment team at NextView. He will be based in our office in New York and looking to invest in companies across the US. 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 14, 2021

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing. Given that a lot has transpired in that time, I thought it would be fascinating to take another look at some of the ideas of that post and see what has changed in the ensuing 3 years.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Dispense recently announced their $2M seed round , which we are pleased to have led here at NextView. Dispense is a B2B software company, focused on transaction software specifically designed for the cannabis industry. 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.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Congrats to the team at Jambb on their recent $3.5M seed round. The round was co-led by Arrington Capital and Animoca Brands, both investors focused on digital assets and blockchain-based investments. You can read more about the round here. We’ve loved working with the Jambb team in our first Accelerator cohort and are excited to continue to support the company in this next stage.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

As someone relatively new to the VC space, I was particularly struck by the partners’ collective reflections regarding what has changed and what has remained the same. Here are some of the industry-wide mega shifts I’ve overheard as central points of water cooler discussion: the ever-increasing check size for seed rounds, the ever-changing “hottest” vertical that folks are jumping at the bit to invest in, the mere existence of platform as an arm within venture, the absolutely manic market, crypt

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

One of the themes that we have been investing against for some time has been in what we’d call the “Care Economy”. This comprises the time and dollars spent against caring for the needs of another person. It’s a truly universal experience, one that every one of us has and will grapple with several times in our lives. It’s an area that has been largely untouched by technology, but is quickly being redesigned through the ingenuity of entrepreneurs and the ever-expanding reach of digitization.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

One of the themes that we have been investing against for some time has been in what we’d call the “Care Economy”. This comprises the time and dollars spent against caring for the needs of another person. It’s a truly universal experience, one that every one of us has and will grapple with several times in our lives. It’s an area that has been largely untouched by technology, but is quickly being redesigned through the ingenuity of entrepreneurs and the ever-expanding reach of digitization.

Acquisition 156

Acquisition Portfolio Technology Founder 156

View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As someone relatively new to the VC space, I was particularly struck by the partners’ collective reflections regarding what has changed and what has remained the same. Here are some of the industry-wide mega shifts I’ve overheard as central points of water cooler discussion: the ever-increasing check size for seed rounds, the ever-changing “hottest” vertical that folks are jumping at the bit to invest in, the mere existence of platform as an arm within venture, the absolutely manic market, crypt

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Congrats to the team at Jambb on their recent $3.5M seed round. The round was co-led by Arrington Capital and Animoca Brands, both investors focused on digital assets and blockchain-based investments. You can read more about the round here. We’ve loved working with the Jambb team in our first Accelerator cohort and are excited to continue to support the company in this next stage.

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MAY 13, 2021

I’m pleased to announce our recent investment in Expressable, a company focused on delivering better speech therapy in our digital age. Founded by Leanne Sherred, Nick Barbara, and Spencer Magloff, Expressable is based in Austin, Texas and offers virtual access to synchronous speech language pathology (SLP) services combined with asynchronous support and personalized learning curriculum.

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MAY 24, 2021

With the news of our most recent $100M fund , NextView is looking to add a new member of our investment team based in New York. If you or someone that you know might be a great fit for this role, please apply here. Since we first opened our New York office back in 2015, we have steadily increased our presence over the years. Roughly 40% of our investments are in the region, including TripleLift (recent $1.4B buyout announced by Vista), Attentive (recent $470M series E), and Parsec (recent $2

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Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage Cofounder 120

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JULY 8, 2021

“Slowly at first, then suddenly all at once.” This quote is variously attributed Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald, though it actually draws on dialogue in Ernest Hemingway’s writing. . Today Lula announced its $18M funding round led by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures. We couldn’t be more thrilled for co-founders Michael and Matthew for this next phase of building the business with substantial additional backing.

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API Miami Cofounder Boston 120

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JULY 26, 2021

I’m very excited to announce our investment in YAA. You can read the update from the company’s CEO Zach here , and we are excited to be partnering with our friends at Flybridge and Long Journey on this investment. . YAA is a service that empowers consumers to have more confidence and success in purchasing and owning an automobile. A car is likely the second largest purchase in a consumer’s life with significant downstream costs of maintenance and ownership.

Distribution 156

Distribution Community Software Partner 156

View from Seed

AUGUST 3, 2021

As seed stage investors here at NextView Ventures , we have the privilege of working with a wide profile of founders at the company conception stage — from early-career first time entrepreneurs , to seasoned execs turned founders , to repeat successful entrepreneurs. Our investment in Correlated , which was announced today in conjunction with the company’s official product launch falls into the latter category.

Cofounder 156

Cofounder Seed Stage Portfolio Revenue 156

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Today Hologram announced their $65M Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global. Hologram is a leader in enabling large-scale connectivity of internet of things (IoT) devices, across the globe with 400+ wireless carriers, all through a robust but easy-to-use API. The Hologram story is near and dear to our hearts here at NextView for a number of reasons.

Chicago 156

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 156

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. We’ll probably do a few of these over the next few months as we make our way back around the country and folks get more comfortable meeting in larger groups in person. Part of the reason to do this was just to reconnect after a long time apart.

IRR 156

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 156

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I’m excited to announce that Jack Abramowitz has joined our investment team at NextView. He will be based in our office in New York and looking to invest in companies across the US. 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.

New York 156

New York Portfolio Founder Operations 156

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing. Given that a lot has transpired in that time, I thought it would be fascinating to take another look at some of the ideas of that post and see what has changed in the ensuing 3 years.

Valuation 156

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 156

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Dispense recently announced their $2M seed round , which we are pleased to have led here at NextView. Dispense is a B2B software company, focused on transaction software specifically designed for the cannabis industry. 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.

Cofounder 156

Cofounder B2B Early Stage Software 156

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Congrats to the team at Jambb on their recent $3.5M seed round. The round was co-led by Arrington Capital and Animoca Brands, both investors focused on digital assets and blockchain-based investments. You can read more about the round here. We’ve loved working with the Jambb team in our first Accelerator cohort and are excited to continue to support the company in this next stage.

Cofounder 223

Cofounder Programming Founder Partner 223

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JULY 26, 2021

I’m very excited to announce our investment in YAA. You can read the update from the company’s CEO Zach here , and we are excited to be partnering with our friends at Flybridge and Long Journey on this investment. . YAA is a service that empowers consumers to have more confidence and success in purchasing and owning an automobile. A car is likely the second largest purchase in a consumer’s life with significant downstream costs of maintenance and ownership.

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