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Brian Long
Attentive® is the most comprehensive text message marketing solution, driving 18.5% of total online revenue for businesses by creating thoughtful SMS experiences.
How It Started
- 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.
How It’s Going
- 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
TripleLift is an advertising platform that enhances digital ads across video, CTV, display, and native formats, helping brands and publishers monetize effectively. TripleLift celebrated a majority buyout from Vista Equity Partners in March of 2021.
How It Started
- 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.
How It’s Going
- 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
Will Ahmed
WHOOP is a performance optimization system that tracks athlete recovery, training, and sleeping hours to help boost performance.
How It Started
- 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
How It’s Going
- 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
The Browser Company of New York is reinventing the browser with Dia, their new AI browser. Their team, backed by industry-leading investors, aims to push the browser forward to better empower users. The Browser Company of New York was acquired by Atlassian for $610M in 2025.
Laura Modi and Sarah Hardy
Bobbie offers the first European style organic baby formula through a subscription service, meeting FDA requirements and made with pasture-raised milk.
How It Started
- 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
How It’s Going
- Bobbie launches the first FDA-Approved, European-style organic infant formula and becomes the fastest growing formula brand in the country.
Over 100,000 babies have relied on Bobbie for their essential daily nutrition
Hallow app provides audio-guided Bible stories, prayers, meditations, sleep, and Christian music.
Devoted Health is a healthcare company serving seniors and giving them a health care plan with personal guides and world-class technology.
How It Started
- 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.
How It’s Going
- Devoted has had one of the fastest growth trajectories in history, scaling from zero to $500M in revenue in four years.
- Devoted serves over 50,000 members with an NPS of 79
Awarded a 4.5 star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
SchoolAI provides AI-powered tools to enhance education, fostering closer relationships and professional development to help schools adopt AI for teachers, students, and leaders.
Evertune helps marketing teams measure, engage, and educate LLMs.
Setpoint is a technology company that enhances capital market operations by streamlining debt facility management, automating processes, and improving efficiency for borrowers and lenders.
Hatch provides scalable, personalized communication to convert leads and satisfy customers. Hatch’s omnichannel AI agents fully integrate into your workflows so you can turn every customer interaction into revenue growth for your business—over SMS, email, and live call. Hatch was acquired by Yelp for $300M in 2026.
Seneca is a resilience technology and infrastructure company, working to eliminate wildfire threat across 500 million acres in the US and allied nations through autonomous drones and AI-driven software to support firefighters.
