Next Play Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

58

Average round size

188M

Portfolio companies

38

Rounds per year

5.80

Follow on index

0.34

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceFood and BeverageMachine LearningSaaS

Summary

The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Redwood City.

We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this Next Play Capital performs on 4 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. When the investment is from Next Play Capital the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 9 partakers. Despite the Next Play Capital, startups are often financed by Redpoint, Harrison Metal, Cowboy Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Workday Ventures, Winklevoss capital, Vulcan.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ScaleFactor, Grove. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Supply Chain Management, Finance.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Check size
Up to 10M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 200000000
Fund raised date
2022-10-14

Analytics

Total investments
58
Lead investments
0
Exits
6
Rounds per year
5.80
Follow on index
0.34
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (14)
  • SaaS (11)
  • FinTech (11)
  • Machine Learning (10)
  • Information Technology (10)
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Investments by region
  • United States (54)
  • China (1)
  • United Arab Emirates (2)
  • Colombia (1)
Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
13
Number of Decacorns
15
Number of Minotaurs
9

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
8B
Group Appearance index
0.97
Avg. company exit year
4
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
AiFi 11 Mar 2022 Software, Retail Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Shopping Early Stage Venture 65M United States, California, San Jose
Gametime 26 May 2022 E-Commerce, Mobile, Apps, Mobile Apps, Sports, Photography, Media and Entertainment, iOS, Android Late Stage Venture 30M United States, California, San Francisco

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