Investors / Next Big Ventures
Next Big Ventures
Venture capital
Next Big Ventures is an investment firm founded by the co-founders of Next Big Sound, who built and sold software and data products before Pandora acquired the company in 2015. The firm invests in early-stage companies and shares what its founders learned from building their own business.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningReal Estate & ConstructionEnterprise Software
In its own wordsdatasoftwareearly stageagtechfintechreal estate
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Or find every investor that fitsNext Big Ventures lists 5 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (50%), Real Estate & Construction (25%) and Enterprise Software (25%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Founder Collective, HAX and Illinois Ventures.
No funding round on record names Next Big Ventures yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 4th | 5 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 85th | 50% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 50% | 18% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 25% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 25% | 8% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Founder Collective
Compare Next Big Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
5 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amber Agriculture develops and sells a device for managing grain in storage bins | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Broadlume provides software for flooring businesses to manage operations and generate leads | Real Estate & ConstructionEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
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About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- nextbigventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- 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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