NextGen Venture Partners
Venture capitalSan Francisco · Seed–Growth · 8 people tracked
Investment thesis
NGVP leads early-stage investments in promising B2B startups, writing first checks of roughly $500K to $2M. The firm emphasizes long-term partnership from seed through scale, drawing on decades of B2B expertise and its network of venture partners (the 'VP Engine') to provide warm introductions to thousands of executives, support in securing follow-on funding rounds, and hands-on, responsive engagement with founders.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 8 people
from the firm's websiteWhat they invest in
from 66 of 80 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×31Enterprise Software ×28SaaS ×21Healthtech ×14Data & Infrastructure ×10Fintech ×9Digital Health ×7Developer Tools ×5
HQs:United States×38
Investments · 80 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathAMI Labs develops advanced AI systems that understand the real world through world models and action-conditioned architectures, enabling intelligent agents with persistent memory, reasoning, and safety controls for industrial automation, robotics, and healthcare applications.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRobotics
Yann LeCun(Founder)
Appy.ai provides an AI business assistant named Violet that integrates into communication platforms like Slack to handle specialized business tasks through coordinated AI specialists, eliminating the need for traditional hiring while maintaining full task visibility and traceability.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of Work
Avizia provides a digital care platform integrating technology, services, and devices to support care delivery across in-person, virtual, and automated settings for providers, payers, and patients.
Cloud ComputingDigital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechBoston, US
Ido SchoenbergRoy SchoenbergPhyllis GotlibCorey Costley(Executive Officer)Shahram Partovi(Director)Lenn Kurtzman(Director)
HealthtechMinneapolis, US
Christopher Olmanson(Executive Officer, Director)Marissa Pittard(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardJon Bassett(Director)
Big Health develops digital treatments and care programs for mental health conditions, including cognitive behavioral therapy-based solutions for insomnia and other mental health issues.
Digital HealthHealthtechMental Health
Peter Hames(Co-founder)Colin Espie(Co-founder)
ClearDemand is an AI-powered platform that provides price optimization, promotion planning, and competitive intelligence for regional grocery and convenience retailers.
AI & Machine LearningRetail TechSaaS<UNKNOWN>
Carta is a cloud-based ERP platform for private capital markets that manages cap tables, equity administration, fund management, and valuations for startups, private companies, and venture funds globally.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS<UNKNOWN>
Henry Ward(Co-founder)Manu Kumar(Co-founder)Charly Kevers(Chief Financial Officer)Jeff Perry(Chief Revenue Officer)Nick Avery(Chief People Officer)Nicole Baer(Chief Marketing Officer)
Boston, US
John Brownstein(Executive Officer, Director)Robin Heffernan(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Kelly Wahlberg(Executive Officer)
Clear Street provides an institutional-grade trading platform that combines AI-powered market insights, multi-asset class access, and low-latency execution infrastructure for active traders across equities, options, and international markets.
AI & Machine LearningFintech
Clear Street is an investment banking platform providing advisory and capital markets services, including equity and debt offerings, M&A, and corporate access, primarily for growth-stage technology, fintech, blockchain, and energy transition companies.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechNew York, US
project44 is a supply chain software company serving logistics and supply chain operations teams to improve visibility and efficiency across supply networks.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSChicago, US
Jett McCandless(Founder and CEO)in
Coalition builds a secure communication and collaboration platform purpose-built for military operations and national security organizations.
Defense TechEnterprise SoftwareGovTechSan Francisco, US
project44 is a decision intelligence platform that uses AI agents to detect, manage, and resolve supply chain exceptions in real time.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainChicago, US
Morgan Flager(Director)Daniel Bebout(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Robert Taylor(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
DataStax provides enterprise-grade database infrastructure and AI development tools, including Astra DB (a NoSQL vector database built on Apache Cassandra), Hyper-Converged Database for on-premises deployments, and Langflow (an open-source low-code platform for building generative AI applications).
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Datazoom provides a unified data collection and activation platform that replaces fragmented SDKs for analytics, ads, and AI applications.
AdTechData & InfrastructureSaaSNew York, US
Diane Strutner(Executive Officer, Director)Benjamin Bayat(Director)
Defense Catalyst provides AI-powered simulations and training for federal contracting professionals to develop acquisition and procurement decision-making skills through realistic scenarios and performance feedback.
Defense TechEdTechEnterprise Software
Density AI designs custom AI accelerators optimized for frontier-scale large language model inference, combining near-memory compute architecture with high-bandwidth memory density.
AI & Machine LearningDeep Tech
Dusty Robotics builds the FieldPrinter, a mobile robot that automates layout and marking tasks on construction job sites.
Construction TechHardwareRoboticsMountain View, US
Tessa Lau(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Avidan Ross(Director)Richard Boyle(Director)Philipp Herget(Director, Promoter)
Everlyhealth operates an at-home laboratory testing platform that enables consumers to monitor their health through biomarker analysis across multiple categories including daily health, digestive health, sexual health, and hormone health, with optional virtual care consultations.
ConsumerDigital HealthHealthtech
Reno, US
Satchel Hirsh(Executive Officer, Director)Shaine Hirsh(Director)Jon Basset(Designated by UMBALTI FBO NextGen Ventures Fund III, L.P.)
Notion is an AI-powered workspace platform that enables teams to capture context, find answers, and automate tasks through collaborative tools.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaS
Fourier Health builds infrastructure to unlock unstructured clinical data from healthcare systems, enabling AI models and clinicians to access actionable intelligence from records currently locked in PDFs and fragmented systems.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDigital HealthHealthtech
Christopher Lee(Co-Founder & CEO)
FrontrowMD is a platform that helps consumers discover and purchase health and wellness products with guidance from medical professionals.
Direct to ConsumerHealthtechMarketplacesWellness & Fitness
Genesis Computing builds an agentic data engineering system that enables enterprises to design, reason about, and evolve data workflows faster using AI agents that understand complex data landscapes.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Justin Langseth(Chief Technology Officer)inMatt Glickman(Chief Executive Officer)inAnton Gorshkov(Head of Engineering)in
Gusto provides payroll processing, employee benefits administration, and HR management tools to businesses, offering integrated software alongside support services for these functions.
Enterprise SoftwareHR TechSan Francisco, US
Josh Reeves(Founder/CEO)inEdward Kim(Founder/Empowering Gusto's Engineering Team)inTomer London(Founder/; Empowering Gusto's Product and Design Teams)in
Abett offers a data management platform that integrates, validates, and manages healthcare and benefits data for large employers and health plans.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareHealthtech
Hone provides an AI-powered platform delivering live training and continuous learning experiences for organizations, covering skills development from leadership and communication to performance management.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechEnterprise SoftwareHR Tech
Tom(Co-founder & CEO)inSavina(Co-founder)
Everlywell offers at-home lab testing kits and virtual healthcare services across multiple wellness categories including daily health screening, digestive analysis, sexual health testing, and hormone monitoring.
Digital HealthHealthtechWellness & Fitness
IP Copilot is an AI platform that captures inventions across a team's tools and documents, generates review-ready disclosures, runs prior art and FTO/infringement searches across 120+ million documents and major patent offices, and manages IP portfolios with competitor and market monitoring.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaSColumbia, US
Austin Walters(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardFarooq Abbasi(Director)Jason Harrier(Director)
Kasa operates a portfolio of flexible accommodations using technology and operational expertise.
Travel & Hospitality
Roman Pedan(Chief Executive Officer & Founder)Craig Minoff(Chief Product Officer & Head of Company Ops (Founding Team))
Maven delivers virtual healthcare and benefits management services for women and families through both an enterprise platform serving employers and health plans, and a direct-to-consumer platform offering access to 30+ specialties including hormone and GLP-1 care programs.
Digital HealthFemTechHealthtechNew York, US
Kate Ryder(Founder)
Virtual women's and family health platform covering fertility, pregnancy, parenting, and menopause.
Niantic Labs develops mobile games and apps that encourage outdoor exploration and real-world community engagement through location-based gaming experiences.
ConsumerGaming
MirrorTab provides bot and fraud prevention for web applications and APIs by blocking automated attacks at the edge without requiring code changes or customer installs.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaSSan Francisco, US
Brian Silverstein(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardSteve O'Hara(Director)Vineet Shahani(Director)
Narrow provides an AI Sales Agent that handles inbound and outbound sales conversations for B2B companies, answering technical questions and managing follow-ups without human sales rep involvement.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech
Paul Fung(CEO & Co-Founder)Chris Lee(CRO & Co-Founder)Nick Dinsmoor(COO & Co-Founder)
Pathway Drugs provides solutions for self-insured employers, benefits consultants, health plans, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in the healthcare and drug management sector.
Healthtech
Pluto is a clinical intelligence platform that aggregates fragmented medical data from US health systems and uses AI-driven insights to coordinate care delivery, identify health gaps, and connect patients to preventive care, diagnostic testing, and clinical trials.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech
Quantum Metric provides real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, and root cause analysis for digital experiences across web, mobile, and kiosk platforms.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSMonument, US
Mario Ciabarra(Executive Officer, Director)Jaimie Ciabarra(Executive Officer)
Elkhorn, US
Donald Moore(Executive Officer, Director)Gary Thompson(Director)Stephen McCown(Executive Officer)
RunSafe Security develops cybersecurity software that hardens embedded systems and commercial/defense software against exploitation by disrupting the determinism attackers need to build reliable exploits.
CybersecurityDefense TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMclean, US
Joseph M. Saunders(Founder and CEO)Doug Britton(EVP)Shane Fry(Chief Technology Officer)Bill Stulb(Director)
BoardJoe Addiego(Director)Patricia Muoio(Director)
Sea Machines develops autonomous command and control technology and computer vision systems for maritime vessels.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechHardwareIoTRoboticsBoston, US
Michael Gordon Johnson(Founder)
Tesorai builds AI-powered data analysis software for life sciences researchers to extract insights from complex experimental datasets.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechSaaS
Melissa Miao(Co-Founder/CEO)Peter Cimermancic(Co-Founder/CTO)Charlie Kim(Co-Founder/CSO)
Settle provides a platform that consolidates procurement and accounts payable for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands, enabling them to manage purchases, track spending, and pay vendors.
E-commerceEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Nish Samantray(Co-Founder)Greg Davidson(CEO & Co-Founder)
ShennonBio develops immunotherapy technologies using microfluidic engineering, computational biology, and immunology to advance T cell engineering for cancer treatment.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechMedical DevicesSan Francisco, US
Li Sun, PhD(Founder/CEO)inJAMES HARDIMAN(Director)LI SUN(Executive Officer, Director)
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does NextGen Venture Partners invest at?
- NextGen Venture Partners invests at the Seed, Series A, Series B, Growth stages.
- What is NextGen Venture Partners's typical check size?
- NextGen Venture Partners typically writes checks of $500K – $2M.
- What sectors does NextGen Venture Partners focus on?
- NextGen Venture Partners focuses on Enterprise Software, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is NextGen Venture Partners located?
- NextGen Venture Partners is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Does NextGen Venture Partners lead rounds?
- Yes, NextGen Venture Partners leads investment rounds.
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