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The Future of Health: How We Think About Investing in Healthier Living for Everyday People

View from Seed

For many years, NextView has looked at many health-related businesses but invested in relatively few. We wanted to learn more about the nuanced industry market forces before applying the same hands-on investing model we do with tech startups in other verticals. I should make clear that we are not life science investors.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: PurePlus

Austin Startup

PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. We built a team of specialists from the food innovation and operations arm of the baby food company Plum Organics, and the marketing arm of companies like JUST Water, Red Bull, Stance, and GoPro, and the business development arm of companies like This Bar Saves Lives.

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The Road Not Taken

Steve Blank

to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. Startups were not just smaller versions of a large company, they were about invention, innovation and iteration - of business model, product, customers and on and on.