How many investments has NextEquity Partners made?

NextEquity Partners has 36 tracked investments, 5 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.

What stage does NextEquity Partners invest at?

NextEquity Partners invests at the Series B, Series C, Growth, Late Stage stages.

What sectors does NextEquity Partners focus on?

NextEquity Partners focuses on Consumer, Enterprise Software, Media & Entertainment, SaaS.

Where is NextEquity Partners located?

NextEquity Partners is headquartered in Menlo Park, US.

Who does NextEquity Partners co-invest with?

NextEquity Partners most often shares deals with Bright Pixel Capital, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, among 183 tracked co-investors.

NextEquity Partners

Growth equity

Menlo Park · Series B–Late Stage · 9 people tracked

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Investment thesis

NextEquity Partners invests in consumer and enterprise technology companies positioned for their next phase of growth. It targets businesses with product leadership, substantial revenue (roughly $10-50m+), rapid growth in large addressable markets, compelling business models, strategic asset value, strong management, and collaborative cultures, while offering flexibility on deal structure and role. Drawing on deep technology, operating, and growth investing experience, the firm brings strategic tech industry relationships and introductions, plus advice spanning technology/engineering, finance/operations, and transactions.

Invests inConsumer Enterprise Software Media & Entertainment SaaS Menlo Park United States

Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.

Stage

Series B–Late Stage

Menlo Park, California, US

Instruments

Equity

Founded

2015

Last 12 months

1 investment

AUM

$240M

Tracked investments

Team · 9 people

from the firm's website & public directories

Adam Hopkins· Co-Founder and Managing Director· Thônex, Geneva, Switzerlandin

Adam Hopkins is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of NextEquity Partners. He was previously a Managing Director and founding principal at Elevation Partners, and earlier worked as an Associate at Silver Lake Partners and as an Analyst at Morgan Stanley Capital Partners. He holds an A.B. in Economics from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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Avie Tevanian· Co-Founder and Managing Director

Avie Tevanian is Co-Founder and Managing Director of NextEquity Partners and also serves as a Managing Director of Elevation Partners, which he joined in January 2010. He previously spent nearly a decade at Apple as Chief Software Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, leading development of Mac OS X, and earlier was VP of Software Engineering at NeXT Computer, where he worked on NeXTSTEP. He holds a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Rochester and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, where he helped design the Mach operating system.

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Fred Anderson· Co-Founder and Managing Director· Menlo Park, California, United Statesin

Fred Anderson is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of NextEquity Partners, and also a Managing Director and Co-Founder of Elevation Partners. He previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Apple from 1996 to 2004, and held CFO roles at ADP and executive positions at MAI Systems Corporation. He began his career as a CPA and consulting manager at Coopers & Lybrand, and holds a BA from Whittier College and an MBA from UCLA.

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Rami Reyes· Co-Founder and Managing Director· Miami, Florida, United Statesin

Rami Reyes is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at NextEquity Partners. He was previously a Principal and Senior Associate at Elevation Partners, where he worked on investment analysis, due diligence, and transaction execution across consumer and enterprise technology. He holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Rachit Joshi· Principal· San Francisco, California, United Statesin

Rachit Joshi is a Principal at NextEquity Partners, where he works on sourcing and executing new investments. He previously held roles as a Senior Vice President at Carrick Capital Partners focused on growth equity in technology and services companies, and as a Vice President at Symphony Technology Group focused on software investments, following earlier work in investment banking at Lazard and Barclays. He holds a B.A. in Accounting and Finance and a Masters in Accounting from the University of Illinois.

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Samir Afzal· Principal

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Steve Vafier· Principal

Steve Vafier is a Principal at NextEquity Partners. He previously held Principal and Senior Associate roles at Elevation Partners, where he worked on investment analysis, due diligence, transaction execution, and business analytics across consumer and enterprise technology. Earlier in his career he was an investment banking analyst in Morgan Stanley's industrials group, and he holds a B.S. in Business Administration from UNC at Chapel Hill.

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Alok Pandey· Venture Partner

Venture Partner at NextEquity Partners with 15+ years of operating and investing experience. He has served as CEO of Clubspeed and CFO of Twingate, and previously worked at Vector Capital, TCV, and JP Morgan.

Ted Meisel· Senior Advisor· Los Angeles

Ted Meisel is a Senior Advisor with NextEquity Partners and also serves as a Senior Advisor with Elevation Partners, with a background in digital media and advertising operations. He was CEO of Overture Services (originally GoTo.com), which he joined in 1998 and grew to $1 billion in revenue before its acquisition by Yahoo!, after which he served as president of Yahoo! Search Marketing; earlier roles include executive positions at CitySearch and eight years at McKinsey & Company and Strategic Planning Associates. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

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What they invest in

from 19 of 38 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×10Enterprise Software ×7Cybersecurity ×5Cloud Computing ×4Consumer ×4Marketplaces ×4SaaS ×4Data & Infrastructure ×3

HQs:United States×14

Who they back

founder profiles across 16 portfolio companies

56%

solo founders

9 of 16 mapped founding teams

50%

repeat founders

of 16 founders with career history

Founding team size:solo founder×92 founders×33 founders×34+ founders×1

Where their founders studiedfrom 15 founders with education data

Stanford University Graduate School of Business ×2

Investments · 38 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path

By year:2026 · 1 2024 · 1 2015 · 13 dated

Yelpyelp.comNYSE: YELPFeb 2015

San Francisco, US

Jeremy Stoppelman(Executive Officer, Director)inRobert Krolik(Chief Financial Officer)Geoff Donaker(Chief Operating Officer)Laurence Wilson(Executive Officer)Joseph R Nachman(Executive Officer)

Board seatFred Anderson· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsBessemer Venture Partners Dag Ventures Riverfront Ventures, LLC Heretic Studio SciFi VC

Airbnbairbnb.com in 𝕏NASDAQ: ABNB

Airbnb is an online marketplace that enables people to book and list accommodations for short-term rentals, experiences, and services around the world.

ConsumerMarketplacesTravel & HospitalitySan Francisco, US

Brian Chesky(Airbnb Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer)inNathan Blecharczyk(Airbnb Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer)inJoe Gebbia(Airbnb Co-founder)inJoe G.(Founder)inBelinda Johnson(Executive Officer)inLaurence Tosi(Chief Financial Officer)in

Co-investors137 Ventures A.Capital Ventures A*Aglae Ventures Allied Venture Partners Amakor +57 more

Lyftlyft.com 𝕏NASDAQ: LYFT

Lyft is an on-demand ridesharing platform that connects passengers with drivers for various ride types, including standard rides, premium options, and other transportation services.

MarketplacesMobility & TransportationSan Francisco, US

Logan Green(Co-founder & CEO)inJohn Zimmer(Co-founder & President)inDavid Risher(CEO)in

Co-investorsAglae Ventures Allied Venture Partners Alpha Wave Global Andreessen Horowitz Bling Capital CapitalG +36 more

Sentinel Onesentinelone.com in 𝕏NYSE: S

SentinelOne provides an AI-powered cybersecurity platform for enterprises that integrates endpoint protection, threat detection, and incident response capabilities.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareMountain View, US

Tomer Weingarten(Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer)in

Co-investorsDCVC (Data Collective)Everest Group Foothill Ventures Granite Hill Insight Partners Khosla Ventures +13 more

SonosNASDAQ: SONO

Uberuber.com in 𝕏NYSE: UBER

Uber operates a multi-sided platform providing ride-sharing, food delivery, freight logistics, and business fleet management services across various global markets.

Logistics & Supply ChainMarketplacesMobility & TransportationSan Francisco, US

Travis Kalanick(Co-founder & CEO)Garrett Camp(Co-founder)

Co-investors137 Ventures 408 Ventures A*Across Capital Partners Aglae Ventures Akkadian Ventures +63 more

Alembic

Alkiraalkira.comAcquired

Alkira provides on-demand, cloud-native network infrastructure as-a-service for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprise connectivity.

Amir K.(Founder)in

Co-investorsDallas Venture Capital Geodesic Capital Kleiner Perkins Koch Disruptive Technologies Presidio Ventures Sequoia Capital +2 more

Arctic Wolfarcticwolf.com in 𝕏

Arctic Wolf provides managed detection and response (MDR) services with 24x7 security teams that detect, investigate, and respond to threats using an open XDR platform processing trillions of events weekly.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Brian NeSmith(Founder & CEO)in

Co-investors33N Artisanal Ventures Bright Pixel Capital ClearSky Cyber Mentor Fund Delta-v Capital +14 more

Bishop Foxbishopfox.com in 𝕏

Bishop Fox provides offensive security services, testing organizations' networks and applications with real-world attack techniques to identify vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.

CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareTempe, US

Vincent Liu(Executive Officer, Director)inJake Kretz(VP of Cloud Engineering and Operations)Steve Huffman(Director)inFrancis P. Brown(Director)

BoardWilliam Lin(Director)inDonald R. Dixon(Director)in

Co-investorsCarrick Capital Partners ForgePoint Capital

BitStew Systems

Booster Fuels

Bridgbridg.com in

Bridg provides in-store identity resolution that links anonymous point-of-sale transactions to known customer profiles or creates new ones, enriching them with extended attributes to expand a retailer's first-party data.

AdTechData & InfrastructureMarketing TechRetail TechLos Angeles, US

Amit Jain(Executive Officer, Director)Michael Horowitz(Executive Officer)Michael Bell(Executive Officer)Juan Pereira(Executive Officer)James Armstrong(Director)

BoardJoseph Miller(Director)in

Co-investorsKarlin Ventures March Capital Partners Mucker Capital Morpheus Ventures TenOneTen Ventures

Business Talent

Circlecicircleci.com in 𝕏

CircleCI develops continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tooling that helps software development and developer-experience teams build, test, and ship code faster and more reliably.

Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

Allen RohnerPaul BiggarJim Rose(Chief Executive Officer)inRob Zuber(Chief Technology Officer)Chitra Balasubramanian(Chief Financial Officer)Judson Griffin(Chief Revenue Officer)

Co-investors500 Global DCVC (Data Collective)Draper Associates Heavybit IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)Sapphire Ventures +4 more

Coralogixcoralogix.com in 𝕏

Coralogix provides an observability platform that analyzes real-time telemetry with AI-powered investigation and cost controls for engineering teams.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS

Ariel Assaraf(CEO & Co-founder)inYoni Farin‏(Founder)inYoni Farin(CTO & Co-founder)inChetan Chaudhary(CRO)inYael Sapir-Zahavi(CHRO)Eran Hadad(CFO)in

Co-investors2B.VC Aleph Bright Pixel Capital Brighton Park Capital Greenfield Partners Joule Ventures +6 more

Cumulus Networkscumulusnetworks.com in 𝕏acquired by NVIDIA

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingHardware

Co-investorsAndreessen Horowitz Battery Ventures Titanium Ventures Wing Top Tier Capital Partners

Facebook

World's largest social network; ECONA held a stake 2008-2010, sold before the IPO.

MSQRD(Cofounders of MSQRD)

Co-investorsAccel Access Technology Ventures Avant Global LLC ECONA AG Everest Group Founders Fund+5 more

Filmhub

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Higgsfield AIhiggsfield.ai in 𝕏Jan 2024

Higgsfield is a platform for creating and generating visual content, including images, videos, and cinematic scenes using AI models.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentLos Gatos, US

Alex Mashrabov(Founder & CEO)inYerzat Dulat(Executive Officer, Director)inMahi De Silva(Co-founder)in

Co-investorsAccel Alpha Intelligence Capital Alpha Square Group Angel Collective Opportunity Fund Bitkraft Esports Ventures BroadLight Capital +12 more

Koreai

Luxury Presenceluxurypresence.com in 𝕏

Luxury Presence is an all-in-one growth marketing platform designed for real estate professionals and firms to build brands, increase marketing ROI, and enhance customer experience.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechPropTechSaaS

Malte Kramer(Founder)in

Co-investorsBessemer Venture Partners Immeasurable Scribble Ventures Switch Ventures The MBA Fund Toba Capital +1 more

MarketShare

Master Classmasterclass.com

Online education subscription platform with pre-recorded tutorials and lectures by experts.

David Rogier(Founder)in

Co-investorsAdvancit Capital Akkadian Ventures Blackbird Giants Brighter Capital Cleo Capital Evolution VC Partners +20 more

Medsphere

mfourmfour.com

M/Four provides consumer research and product intelligence through validated survey data combined with location and behavioral analytics.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerData & InfrastructureMarketing TechRetail Tech

Onshore

Ring

Safe

Safe Securitysafe.security in 𝕏

SAFE Security provides an AI-driven platform for cyber risk management, covering third-party risk management (TPRM), continuous threat exposure management (CTEM), AI security posture management (AI-SPM), and cyber risk quantification (CRQ).

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Saket Modi(Founder & CEO)in

Co-investorsAlliance of Angels JC2 Ventures MS&AD Ventures Paladin Capital Group Titanium Ventures Avataar Venture Partners +5 more

Sight Machinesightmachine.com

Sight Machine develops AI agents that optimize manufacturing operations by analyzing industrial data, connecting production systems, and providing autonomous recommendations to improve output and reduce waste.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Jon Sobel(Chief Executive Officer and President)inNathan Oostendorp(Secretary and Treasurer)

BoardAdrian Fortino(Director)inMark Jacobsen(Director)Roger Ehrenberg(Director)

Co-investorsDnx Ventures eLab Ventures FundersClub Future Energy Ventures Huron River Ventures Mercury Fund +3 more

Subjectsubject.com in 𝕏Mar 2026

Subject provides AI-powered personalized learning solutions for K-12 schools, including cinematic curriculum, certified teacher of record support, and learning intelligence that monitors student progress and intervenes proactively.

AI & Machine LearningEdTechPalo Alto, US

Alfred Zlogar(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Mike Vilardo(Founder)inMichael Vilardo(Founder)in

BoardBrian Andrews(Director)

Co-investorsEvolution Ventures Four Acres Capital Hannah Grey Ventures Open Opportunity Fund Owl Ventures Kleiner Perkins +4 more

Subject

The Bouqsthebouqs.com

The Bouqs Co. is an online flower delivery service that sources arrangements directly from sustainable farms and offers next-day, same-day, and subscription delivery across the U.S.

ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce

Co-investorsAliment Capital Azure Capital Partners Draper Associates Quest Venture Partners

The Real Real x-tech-roboticstherealreal.com in 𝕏

The RealReal is an online marketplace for authenticated luxury consignment, allowing consumers to buy and sell pre-owned designer clothing, accessories, jewelry, watches, and home goods.

Circular EconomyConsumerE-commerceMarketplacesSan Francisco, US

Julie Wainwright(Executive Officer, Director)Matt Gustke(Executive Officer)inHenry V. Barry(Executive Officer)

BoardMathias Schilling(Director)inCynthia Ringo(Director)Keval Desai(Director)in

Co-investorsAcrew Capital Aspect Ventures Bright Pixel Capital Canaan Partners DBL Partners Expansion Venture Capital +11 more

Tonal

Venafivenafi.com in 𝕏

Venafi, now part of CyberArk as CyberArk Machine Identity Security, provides machine identity security including certificate lifecycle management, enterprise PKI, workload identity management, secure code signing, and SSH security.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Co-investorsDelta-v Capital Harmonic Growth Partners Mercato Partners QuestMark Partners Top Corner Capital Intel Capital

Exits · 7

IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolio

YelpNYSE: YELPAirbnbNASDAQ: ABNBLyftNASDAQ: LYFTSentinel OneNYSE: SSonosNASDAQ: SONOUberNYSE: UBERCumulus Networksacq. by NVIDIA

Portfolio news

latest coverage across their companies

How Investors May Respond To Yelp (YELP) Tightening 2026 Revenue Guidance And Rising AI Tool Adoption

Yelp · sahmcapital.com · Aug 10, 2026

TheRealReal earnings in focus as luxury resale leader eyes profit By Investing.com

The Real Real x-tech-robotics · ca.investing.com · Aug 6, 2026

Lumen Q2 2026 slides: strategic revenue crosses 50%, Alkira closed By Investing.com

Alkira · investing.com · Aug 4, 2026

Earnings Preview: What To Expect From Airbnb’s Report

Airbnb · barchart.com · Jul 17, 2026

Higgsfield AI Raises $500M at $5B Valuation — $500M ARR | MasterNodeAI

Higgsfield AI · masternodeai.com · Jul 2, 2026

UBER Stock Jumps 6% as Uber Eats Retail Expansion Fuels Recovery Rally - Forex News by FX Leaders

Uber · fxleaders.com · Jun 25, 2026

Coralogix raises $200m in Series F funding

Coralogix · fintech.global · Jun 4, 2026

Cumulus Networks - Wikipedia

Cumulus Networks · en.wikipedia.org · May 27, 2026

Frequently asked questions

How many investments has NextEquity Partners made?: NextEquity Partners has 36 tracked investments, 5 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.
What stage does NextEquity Partners invest at?: NextEquity Partners invests at the Series B, Series C, Growth, Late Stage stages.
What sectors does NextEquity Partners focus on?: NextEquity Partners focuses on Consumer, Enterprise Software, Media & Entertainment, SaaS.
Where is NextEquity Partners located?: NextEquity Partners is headquartered in Menlo Park, US.
Who does NextEquity Partners co-invest with?: NextEquity Partners most often shares deals with Bright Pixel Capital, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, among 183 tracked co-investors.

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