NextView Ventures

NextView Ventures is a high-conviction, hands-on seed-stage venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs across North America. The firm focuses on companies that aim to redesign daily living for everyday people, operating under the central investment theme of the “Everyday Economy.” This involves backing pre-traction companies that leverage artificial intelligence and software to address mass-market human problems, both in consumer-facing and business-to-business sectors. NextView Ventures emphasizes a concentrated approach, making a smaller number of deals each year to provide extensive platform support, mentorship, and strategic guidance to its portfolio companies.

The firm was founded in 2010 by David Beisel, Rob Go, and Lee Hower, who brought decades of experience as entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to the endeavor. They established NextView with a commitment to being equal partners, enabling decisive action and aggressive resource concentration to empower founders. The team's diverse backgrounds include expertise in early-stage internet startups, product development, marketing technology, digital health, and B2B SaaS, contributing to a comprehensive support system for their portfolio.

NextView Ventures boasts a diverse portfolio of notable investments across various sectors. Key portfolio companies include Bobbie (infant formula), WHOOP (performance optimization wearable technology), Attentive (SMS marketing platform), TripleLift (advertising platform), and thredUP (apparel resale). Other investments span areas such as ebook marketing (BookBub), SaaS pricing (Schematic), online legal dispute resolution (New Era ADR), AI commerce (Anagram), caregiver e-commerce (Carewell), and digital health (Devoted Health).

The NextView team comprises experienced partners such as David Beisel, Rob Go, Stephanie Palmeri, Melody Koh, and Lee Hower, alongside a dedicated platform and finance team. David Beisel focuses on marketing technology, dev tools, and consumer sectors, while Rob Go specializes in marketplaces, consumer, digital health, and vertical SaaS. Stephanie Palmeri, based in San Francisco, invests in founders leveraging AI to reshape various aspects of life and work, with a background in B2B SaaS, healthcare, education, and marketplaces. Melody Koh, based in New York, brings extensive experience as an entrepreneur, operator, and investor in technology startups.