Rachel Hodes
Rachel is the Director of Platform at NextView Ventures, based in its New York office. Since graduating from Columbia University in 2015, Rachel’s career has been focused on brand and community-building for D2C, B2C, and B2B early-stage startups.
Most recently before joining NextView, Rachel served as the email and social media outreach lead at LifeLines, a mental wellness venture that was launched in 2020 by the Co-Founders of Melissa & Doug, LLC.
Prior to joining LifeLines, Rachel worked as copywriting, branding, and social media marketing freelance consultant for a variety of different businesses, including digitally native startups like Moxy, as well as established e-commerce sites like Yummie. Rachel began her career in a founding community role with Bulletin, a women-led startup dedicated to facilitating expanded market reach for women-owned businesses and brands.
When she’s not working, you can find Rachel posted up at a comedy show in the city or traveling the world far and wide. Rachel is passionate about advocating for reproductive rights and intent on normalizing mental health practices in everyday life. She lives in Brooklyn.
Rachel Hodes
Rachel is the Director of Platform at NextView Ventures, based in its New York office. Since graduating from Columbia University in 2015, Rachel’s career has been focused on brand and community-building for D2C, B2C, and B2B early-stage startups.
Most recently before joining NextView, Rachel served as the email and social media outreach lead at LifeLines, a mental wellness venture that was launched in 2020 by the Co-Founders of Melissa & Doug, LLC.
Prior to joining LifeLines, Rachel worked as copywriting, branding, and social media marketing freelance consultant for a variety of different businesses, including digitally native startups like Moxy, as well as established e-commerce sites like Yummie. Rachel began her career in a founding community role with Bulletin, a women-led startup dedicated to facilitating expanded market reach for women-owned businesses and brands.
When she’s not working, you can find Rachel posted up at a comedy show in the city or traveling the world far and wide. Rachel is passionate about advocating for reproductive rights and intent on normalizing mental health practices in everyday life. She lives in Brooklyn.
David Beisel
David is a co-founder and Partner at NextView Ventures. As a former founder himself, David uses his marketing experience and GTM eye to invest in early-stage startups that will change the world for the better.
Rob Go
Rob is a co-founder and Partner at NextView Ventures. He tries to spend as much time as possible working with entrepreneurs to develop products that solve important problems for everyday people.
Stephanie Palmeri
Stephanie is a Partner at NextView Ventures and is based in San Francisco. She loves supporting founders whose North Stars are building exceptional user-centric experiences for individuals, families, workers, and communities.
Melody Koh
Melody is a Partner at NextView Ventures, based in its New York office. She is a product leader at heart, having scaled major teams and launched products loved by hundreds of thousands of customers around the world.
Lee Hower
Lee is a co-founder and Partner at NextView Ventures. Lee leans on his past product, analytics, and strategy experience to invest in the early-stage software and internet startups of tomorrow.
Kaitlin O’Mealey
Kaitlin is the Director of Investment Operations at NextView. She utilizes her go-to-market operational skills to nurture the NextView network and enhance the efficiency of NextView’s investment team.
Amanda Tommasino
Amanda is the Director of Finance at NextView. She draws on her experience in fund administration to provide support to the partners and best practices to the firm.