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Nextplay Ventures

Founders Jeff Weiner

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Total investments 74
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 50
Rounds per year 8.22
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.31
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • Health Care
  • Education
  • SaaS
Summary

Nextplay Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The main department of described VC is located in the Los Angeles. The company was established in North America in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ObEN. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Virtual Reality, Speech Recognition. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The important activity for fund was in 2014. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 partakers. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Third Wave Digital, PreAngel, Inmaginator. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by CrestValue, Third Wave Digital, Tencent Holdings.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Neura Health

Health Care
$8M17 May 2023 New York, New York, United States

Airspeed

Information Services
Internet
SaaS
$5M04 May 2023 Vancouver, Washington, United States

Trala

E-Learning
Music
Musical Instruments
$8M16 Mar 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Humaans

B2B
Human Resources
Internet
Software
$15M04 Oct 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Neura Health

Health Care
$2M02 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

cloaked

Internet
Privacy
Software
$4M18 Jan 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

BRINC Drones

Aerospace
$55M01 Jan 2022 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Neta

E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Information Technology
Social
$4M14 Oct 2021 Mexico City, Mexico

BRINC Drones

Aerospace
$25M12 Oct 2021 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
News
MakersPlace Raises $30M in Series A Funding

– MakersPlace, a San Francisco, CA-based NFT marketplace for digital art, secured $30M in Series A funding.
– The round was co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Pantera Capital with participation from Uncork Capital, Draper Dragon Digital Assets, 9Yards Capital, Next Play Ventures, Coinbase Ventures and Sony Music Entertainment.
– The company will use the funds to acquire additional talent and scale the business in existing markets and explore new ones.

Language learning startup Toucan raises $4.5M

– Toucan, a startup that helps users learn a new language while they browse the web, is announcing that it has raised an additional $4.5 million in seed funding.
– The new round was led by LightShed Ventures, with participation from new investors Next Play Ventures, Concrete Rose Capital, GingerBread Capital, Form Capital, Goodwater Capital, Hampton VC, Spacecadet Ventures, GTMfund, Baron Davis Enterprises and Human Ventures, as well as existing investors GSV Ventures, Amplifyher Ventures and Vitalize.
– Toucan will use the new funding to expand the team from 12 to 16.
– It’s also planning to internationalize — so not just translating English to Spanish, but Spanish to English, and so on — and is launching a new Safari extension (it will support more browsers in the future).

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Total investments 74
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 8.22
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.31
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.84

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Neura Health

Health Care
$8M17 May 2023 New York, New York, United States

Airspeed

Information Services
Internet
SaaS
$5M04 May 2023 Vancouver, Washington, United States

Trala

E-Learning
Music
Musical Instruments
$8M16 Mar 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Humaans

B2B
Human Resources
Internet
Software
$15M04 Oct 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Neura Health

Health Care
$2M02 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

cloaked

Internet
Privacy
Software
$4M18 Jan 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

BRINC Drones

Aerospace
$55M01 Jan 2022 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Neta

E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Information Technology
Social
$4M14 Oct 2021 Mexico City, Mexico

BRINC Drones

Aerospace
$25M12 Oct 2021 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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