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Next Play Ventures
Venture capital · Menlo Park, CA, United States · North America
Next Play Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by former LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner that invests in and coaches entrepreneurial leaders. It describes its mission as coaching and investing in leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations, and it also supports social impact organizations.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningEducation
In its own wordspurpose-drivenleadershipsocial impactdiversitysoftwarehealthcare
Your fit with Next Play Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsNext Play Ventures lists 65 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (18%), Education (16%) and Healthcare & Biotech (14%). 89% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator and Bessemer Venture Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Next Play Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Next Play Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 7 companies; its own site lists 65. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundNext Play Ventures does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 50% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
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 | 2 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 2 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 89th | 64 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 58th | 3% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 8th | 18% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| Education | 16% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 14% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 13% | 8% |
| Fintech | 8% | 12% |
| Cybersecurity | 5% | 4% |
| Space & Defense | 4% | 3% |
| Food & Agriculture | 4% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Sequoia Capital | 8 |
| Y Combinator | 8 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 7 |
| Index Ventures | 7 |
| Westbound Equity Partners | 7 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 6 |
| 1435 Capital | 5 |
| Accel | 5 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6498%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company12%
- 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 Next Play Ventures 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 Next Play Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 16 Oct 2025 | Round | |
| 1 Nov 2023 | Seed | |
| 7 Mar 2023 | Series A | |
| 30 Nov 2021 | Series A | |
| 12 Oct 2021 | Series A |
Round details for Next Play Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Next Play Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
65 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21Seeds produces infused tequila with real fruit. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops general-purpose robots for kitchens, starting with dishwashing | Robotics & Hardware | Oct 2025Round | Funding round | |
| Bay FC is a women's soccer team in the National Women's Soccer League | Enterprise SoftwareLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Believer Entertainment is a global games company that creates and serves games | Enterprise SoftwareGaming | Mar 2023Series A | Funding round | |
| Bicycle Health provides online Suboxone treatment and support for opioid use disorder | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Blockit Ai provides an AI scheduling agent to handle calendar management | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Brex provides financial software and services, including corporate cards, expense management, and accounting, to businesses in over 120 countries. | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| BrightHire is the AI hiring platform built to raise hiring quality and efficiency, from application review and AI interviews to live interview intelligence and fraud detection that improves every hiring outcome. | AI & Machine LearningHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a personal tutoring service for math and coding through a visual and interactive tutor called Koji. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| BRINC develops and provides drones and related technology for public safety purposes | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2021Series A | Page + round | |
| Century Health provides real-world data for medical breakthroughs | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Chainlink provides a platform for blockchain oracle services, enabling data and value transfer across different blockchains. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Cloaked provides online privacy and security services, including data removal, identity theft protection, and VPN browsing. | CybersecurityFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cloudera provides a hybrid platform for data and AI | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Coactive provides a contextual intelligence layer for modern media using multimodal AI | Media & EntertainmentAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2023Seed | Funding round | |
| Coffee AI provides an AI CRM agent for sales teams to automate data entry and improve sales performance | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Columnar rebuilds database access for speed and simplicity | AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page | ||
| Common Room provides buyer intelligence and revenue execution tools to help companies turn intent into pipeline | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Craftable provides back-office software for restaurants and hotels | Food & AgricultureLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- nextplayventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 12 Oct 2021
- Companies checked
- 65
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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