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Next Play Capital

Founders Eric Valle Ryan Nece

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Total investments 57
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$191M
Portfolio companies 38
Rounds per year 6.33
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 6
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • SaaS
  • FinTech
  • Machine Learning
  • Information Technology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Coactive AI

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$3M21 Mar 2023 San Jose, California, United States

The Believer Company

Gaming
Information Technology
Online Games
Software
07 Mar 2023 West Hollywood, California, United States

NorthOne

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$67M13 Oct 2022 New York, New York, United States

Nightfall AI

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
SaaS
$40M10 Aug 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

La Haus

Information Technology
Marketplace
Real Estate
Residential
$62M21 Jun 2022 Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

Kitopi

Cloud Infrastructure
Delivery
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Internet
Restaurants
SaaS
Software
$300M10 May 2022 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

AiFi

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Retail Technology
Shopping
Software
$65M11 Mar 2022 San Jose, California, United States

Platform Science

Computer
Fleet Management
Software
Transportation
$115M03 Feb 2022 San Diego, California, United States

Babylist

Baby
E-Commerce
Internet
Parenting
$40M04 Nov 2021 Oakland, California, United States

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Total investments 57
Average round size 191M
Rounds per year 6.33
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Coactive AI

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$3M21 Mar 2023 San Jose, California, United States

The Believer Company

Gaming
Information Technology
Online Games
Software
07 Mar 2023 West Hollywood, California, United States

NorthOne

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$67M13 Oct 2022 New York, New York, United States

Nightfall AI

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
SaaS
$40M10 Aug 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

La Haus

Information Technology
Marketplace
Real Estate
Residential
$62M21 Jun 2022 Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

Kitopi

Cloud Infrastructure
Delivery
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Internet
Restaurants
SaaS
Software
$300M10 May 2022 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

AiFi

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Retail Technology
Shopping
Software
$65M11 Mar 2022 San Jose, California, United States

Platform Science

Computer
Fleet Management
Software
Transportation
$115M03 Feb 2022 San Diego, California, United States

Babylist

Baby
E-Commerce
Internet
Parenting
$40M04 Nov 2021 Oakland, California, United States
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