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Walter Gonzales, Founder and President of Goja

Tim Herman, Founder & CEO

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.

Julia Cheek
Portfolio Spotlight

We walk alongside our portfolio founders

Portfolio Spotlight

We walk alongside our portfolio founders

Julia Cheek, Founder & CEO

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.

Sarah Puil, Founder and CEO of BOXT

Andrea Thomaz & Vivian Chu

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.

And those stories are just the tip of the iceberg

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Our Approach

The Next Coast Way

Our thematic research provides a data-driven approach to partnering with glass-eating entrepreneurs and category winners.

Define

First, we choose our investing themes (sectors are overrated).

Partner

Then, we partner with glass-eating entrepreneurs operating within those themes.

Build

Finally, we use our experienced resources to send their companies into hyper-growth.

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Our Platform

We thrive in the "make or break” stage of the journey

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.

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“Roll Up Your Sleeves” Help

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.

The Partners

Expert Network

Our founders are granted access to an expert network of 150+ individuals who are currently running companies or have successfully run companies.

The Experts

Company Building Playbooks

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.

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Dedicated Next Coast Team Member

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.

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Our Purpose

Built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs

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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Our Purpose. We're built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs.