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Nelnet
Corporate VC · United States · North America
Nelnet is a publicly traded diversified company (NYSE: NNI) that provides loan servicing, payment processing, education technology and business process outsourcing services. It also operates a corporate venture capital team, Nelnet Ventures, alongside tax equity financing, real estate ventures and renewable energy investing.
Invests inSpace & Defense
In its own wordseducationfinancial servicespaymentsventure capitalrenewable energyoutsourcing
Your fit with Nelnet
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Or find every investor that fitsNelnet lists 5 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Pre-seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Space & Defense (22%), Fintech (11%) and Consumer (11%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Invest Nebraska, Move Venture Capital and Alpha Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Nelnet, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundNelnet does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 50% |
| Seed | 17% |
| Series A | 17% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 17% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 1 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 4th | 5 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 67% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 25th | 22% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Space & Defense | 22% | 3% |
| Fintech | 11% | 12% |
| Consumer | 11% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 11% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 11% | 18% |
| Education | 11% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 11% | 15% |
| Food & Agriculture | 11% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Invest Nebraska | 5 |
| Move Venture Capital | 2 |
| Alpha Partners | 1 |
| B Capital | 1 |
| Grit Road Partners | 1 |
| Insight Partners | 1 |
| Launch | 1 |
| M25 | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers5100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Nelnet head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Nelnet| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Jul 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 4 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 11 May 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 3 Apr 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 21 Aug 2025 | Series C+ |
Round details for Nelnet
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Nelnet's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
5 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grapple provides a do-it-yourself data warehouse that makes advanced analytics easy | FintechSpace & Defense | Apr 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| CompanyCam provides a platform for documenting and managing field work through photo and video capture, galleries, and other features | ConsumerIndustrial & Manufacturing | Aug 2025Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Driive provides AI scheduling software for home services | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | May 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| Immigify provides a platform for managing immigration workflows and connecting individuals, businesses, consultants, and educational institutions | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Jul 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| Marble builds AI and food-grade hardware to reduce labor, improve product quality, and reduce waste in meat processing | Food & Agriculture | Jun 2026Series A | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 7 Nov 2026- Site
- nelnet.com
- Last read
- 7 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 7 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 21 Aug 2025
- Companies checked
- 5
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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