Next Coast Ventures
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Next Coast Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage, high-growth startups outside the traditional coastal hubs. They focus on companies in the 'make or break' stage, providing support through their platform and experienced team.
Next Coast Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Austin, United States, founded in 2015. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in consumer, enterprise and emerging platform. 100 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in emerging , “ next coast ” companies at the critical stage of development to launch them into hyper-growth .”
— Next Coast Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Austin, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- consumer, enterprise, emerging platform
- Founded
- 2015
- Portfolio
- 100 companies
Team, as Next Coast Ventures publishes it
- Mike Smerklo Co-Founder and Managing Director
- Thomas Ball Co-Founder and Managing Director
- Kaitlyn DeBernardo Partner, COO & Head of Platform
- Laura Schenke Operations Consultant
- Julie Dodd Venture Partner
- Paul Rogers Venture Partner
- Adam Rogers Venture Partner
- Brian Sharples Venture Partner
- Cotter Cunningham Venture Partner
- Julian Castelli Venture Partner
- Jason Dorsey Venture Partner
- Scott Miller EIR @ NCV
Names and roles exactly as listed on nextcoastventures.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 77 co-investors found.
- NextGen Venture Partners 5 shared companies: aceable.com, everlywell.com, frontrowmd.com, statt.com…
- Silverton Partners 4 shared companies: aceable.com, alertmedia.com, kronologic.ai, scorability.com
- Geekdom Fund 3 shared companies: passage.id, kronologic.ai, tenfold.com
- Data Point Capital 2 shared companies: floorfound.com, flipcx.com
- Escalate Capital Partners 2 shared companies: enboarder.com, trustradius.com
- OIF Ventures 2 shared companies: enboarder.com, arcade.co
- Stage 2 Capital Advisors 2 shared companies: enboarder.com, arcade.co
- Arrington Capital 2 shared companies: domainmoney.com, tuned.com
- Copper Sky Capital 2 shared companies: grazzy.com, uplinq.com
- Capital Factory 2 shared companies: iconbuild.com, outlier.bet
and 67 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Next Coast Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.nextcoastventures.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://www.nextcoastventures.com/portfolioinvests_in_geographies, sectors, portfolio_count
- https://www.nextcoastventures.com/peoplefounded, people
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