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Next Play Ventures vs Y Combinator
Next Play Ventures lists 65 portfolio companies and has joined 7 funding rounds; Y Combinator lists 5,151 companies and has joined 3,388 rounds. Next Play Ventures comes in most often at Seed (50% of its entries), Y Combinator comes in most often at Seed (98% of its entries). 8 companies are on both portfolios, among them BREX, Cron and Gather.
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| Next Play Ventures | Y Combinator | |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio companies | 65 | 5,151 |
| Funding rounds joined | 7 | 3,388 |
| Rounds led | 0 | 2,960 |
| Rounds, last 12 months | 2 | 579 |
| Typical round it comes in at | $5M to $20M | under $1M |
| Sites no longer answering | 0% | 0% |
Where they come in
share of entries by stageNext Play VenturesY Combinator
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| Next Play Ventures | Y Combinator | |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% | 0% |
| Seed | 50% | 98% |
| Series A | 50% | 1% |
| Series B | 0% | 0% |
| Growth | 0% | 1% |
Themes
share of checked companiesNext Play VenturesY Combinator
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| Next Play Ventures | Y Combinator | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 26% |
| Education | 16% | 5% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 14% | 11% |
| Enterprise Software | 13% | 10% |
| Fintech | 8% | 13% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 0% | 5% |
Companies both back
8Shared companies are those both firms' own portfolio pages list, each checked against the company's site. The same comparison through the API is POST /v1/overlap, for up to 20 firms. How the data is graded
Compare Next Play Ventures and Y Combinator as data
Pull both portfolios and every co-investor through one API key or MCP, and lay up to 20 firms side by side with POST /v1/overlap. A free account adds Ask AI searches and alerts when either firm adds a company.
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$ curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
https://api.vcinfo.io/v1/firms/nextplayventures.com/portfolio
# also
GET /v1/firms/ycombinator.com/portfolio
GET /v1/firms/nextplayventures.com/coinvestors