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Let’s build the future we want to live in.

The Future is Coming

What do we want it to be like?

The combination of entrepreneurial creativity and groundbreaking technological innovation is driving unprecedented change in our everyday lives. We have agency in the outcomes that technologies like artificial intelligence will produce. How we direct this force will be the legacy of this generation. Our mission at NextView is to invest in companies that leverage powerful technology to drive a brighter collective future for all people. NextView leads pre-seed and seed stage rounds within our investment theme of the Everyday Economy. We invest in other wacky stuff, too.

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2018: Bobbie is founded by two AirBnB alumni, Laura Modi and Sarah Hardy to develop a best-in-class baby formula and change the narrative around infant nutrition in America.
NextView seeds Bobbie pre-launch to pursue the product development and FDA approval

Dia & Co 1 / 8 Devoted Health

2017: Devoted health is founded by Todd and Ed Park along with alumni from Athena Health and Wayfair with the mission of revolutionizing the healthcare experience of American seniors.
NextView invests in the company that fall as they prepare to launch their first market in 2018.

Bobbie 2 / 8 thredUP

2009: thredUp is founded as an online clothes-swapping marketplace by James Reinhart in his Cambridge, MA business school dorm room. Oliver Lubin & Chris Homer also help co-found the business, which is focused on men’s shirts at the time.
2010: After 20+ VC rejections, thredUp receives a seed check from NextView.

thredUp is the established market leader in Apparel Resale, operating three massive distribution centers, each holding and processing up to 5.5 million items.
thredUp goes public March 2021, NASDAQ:(TDUP)

1.25M customers

100M garments processed

1Blb of CO2 displaced

Devoted Health 3 / 8 WHOOP

2012: WHOOP is founded by Harvard undergrads Will Ahmed and John Capodilupo (original name: “Bobo Analytics”)
2013: WHOOP’s prototype hardware is seeded by NextView, with initial GTM plans centering around pro and collegiate athletes

After closing a $200M Series F round, WHOOP is now the most valuable standalone wearables company on the market, valued at over $3.6 billion.
Loved by professional athletes from Lebron James to Rory McIlroy, to dozens of Olympians, as well as hundreds of thousands of everyday consumers.

Nearly 1M members

Official wearable: PGA Tour, LPGA Tour, NFLPA, and Crossfit

thredUP 4 / 8 Attentive

2017: Repeat NextView founders Brian Long and Andrew Jones (TapCommerce, sold to Twitter) come to NextView with an idea for a new company, “Franklin Mobile.”
Franklin Mobile is focused on software for front-line workforces. NextView is the first firm to commit to the company’s seed round at the concept stage.
Franklin Mobile pivots to Attentive – an SMS marketing platform.

Serving over 4,000 e-commerce customers and growing, Attentive is responsible for driving nearly 20% of the e-commerce revenue of its customers.
Attentive has successfully acquired 2 companies: Tony and Privy.

+1,000 employees

+$12B in 2021 revenue for brands

Ranked 12th on Forbes’ 2021 Cloud 100 List

WHOOP 5 / 8 Grove Collaborative

2014: Founded by Stu Landesberg, Chris Clark, and Jordan Savage, Grove (formerly known as ePantry), begins as a recurring commerce service, selling 3rd party products and generating small early revenue
2015: Grove is seeded by NextView after launching the first Grove developed & branded products

Grove is the category leader in sustainable CPG. Also the first plastic neutral retailer in the world, on track for plastic free by 2025.
Nationwide launch of Grove brand products in Target.

Virgin Group SPAC took Grove public at a valuation of $1.5B

+2M customers through Grove.co

Attentive 6 / 8 TripleLift

2012: After working together at heavyweight ad-tech startup, Appnexus, Eric Berry, Ari Lewine, and Shaun Zacharia found TripleLift, a marketing platform built for the visual web.
2012: NextView invests in TripleLift’s seed round pre-launch after only seeing an early demo product. Read more about our initial investment thesis here.

Considered one of the fastest-growing ad-tech companies in the world, TripleLift has facilitated more than $1B in lifetime advertising spend.
One of the most capital efficient Unicorns in the world, TripleLift has been profitable for five years straight… all on less than $17M of paid in capital.

$1.4B majority buyout by Vista Equity Partners

+$300M in revenue

Processing 8x more transactions a day than the NYSE

Grove Collaborative 7 / 8 Dia & Co

2014: Nadia Boujarwah and Lydia Gilbert begin working on a personalized fashion idea targeting the 100M women in the US that wear sizes size 14 and above.
2015: Dia’s service grows from 4 customers to 400 in its first ten months prior to NextView’s seed investment