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UpEquity is revolutionizing home buying by making the process faster, simpler, and fairer through its tech-enabled platform. Tim is on a mission to empower buyers with all-cash offers and real-time underwriting, creating more competitive opportunities in today’s housing market. By removing friction and leveling the playing field, UpEquity is helping more people win their dream homes with confidence. Next Coast Ventures first invested in UpEquity in the Series A in early 2021 and has participated in several follow-on financings.
Workweek is reimagining business media by empowering creators to build modern, audience-first brands. Co-founders Adam Ryan and Becca Sherman are at the forefront of helping industry experts create content that informs, entertains, and builds engaged communities. Their creator-led approach is reshaping business content by prioritizing audience connection and authenticity in a digital-first world. Next Coast Ventures led their Series A in early 2024.
Everly Health is transforming the way people access healthcare through innovative, at-home diagnostic solutions. The company has grown into a leader in digital health, making lab testing more convenient, affordable, and consumer-focused. From its early days, Julia’s bold vision has redefined how people engage with their personal health, and Everly Health is now paving the way for a more accessible future of care. Next Coast Ventures first invested in 2018 and has continued to support the business through their explosive growth.
Diligent Robotics is creating the future of hospital automation with socially intelligent robots that assist clinical staff in providing better patient care. Co-founders Andrea Thomaz and Vivian Chu are leaders in robotics innovation, with Moxi, their flagship robot, already supporting dozens of hospital teams by managing routine, time-consuming tasks. Their work is redefining how technology can support frontline healthcare workers. Next Coast Ventures first invested in their Seed round in 2017 and has participated in several follow-on rounds.
Our thematic research provides a data-driven approach to partnering with glass-eating entrepreneurs and category winners.
First, we choose our investing themes (sectors are overrated).
Then, we partner with glass-eating entrepreneurs operating within those themes.
Finally, we use our experienced resources to send their companies into hyper-growth.
We’ve been entrepreneurs and have journeyed through the crucial stage of the journey. Taking from our own experiences, we created our dream list of resources for founders to hit that first goal...then the next goal, then the next goal. It’s everything we wish we’d had known when building our companies.
Our founders work side-by-side with the Next Coast Partners who were all successful operators before entering venture capital. The partners share pragmatic advice from personal experience versus just patterns they have recognized from their portfolio of companies.
Our founders are granted access to an expert network of 150+ individuals who are currently running companies or have successfully run companies.
Our partners developed specific plays with the goal of providing real results for our portfolio companies, from KPI development for product/market fit to recruiting and succession strategies.
The Head of Platform is a partner-level role at our firm solely dedicated to solving mission critical initiatives for our founders. In other words, we want to make sure our founders are always taken care of. The Head of Platform is here to ensure Next Coast Ventures is doing all we can to support our portfolio founders and their operations as they scale.
We founded Next Coast because we want to share the winning strategies that we learned when we were building our ventures. Our goal is to help founders cut down on the learning curve of launching a business and not repeat the mistakes we’ve already army-crawled our way through.
Leveraging our extensive experience as both operators and investors, we really are “built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs.”
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