FI  Next Play Ventures

https://www.nextplayventures.com/





     Office Locations:

Menlo Park, CA 94025

 

Stages:

  • Early
  • Seed


 

Industries:

  • Education & Training
  • Software & Internet

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    Description:

    After completing 11 years as CEO of LinkedIn and stepping into the role of executive chairman, Jeff Weiner founded Next Play Ventures to focus more on investing, coaching, and philanthropy. He's joined by Brian Rumao, his chief of staff for the last six years. Investments include: Slack, Brex, Figma, Notion, Cloudera, Wildlife Studios, Vox Media, Headspace, Collective Health, Everfi, Cameo, Scoop, Little Passports, Seesaw, Cricket Health, Ginger, Before Brands/SpoonfulOne, Holberton School, LogicGate, Landscape Hub, Brilliant, Wellthy, CurlMix, Loris.ai, Jiobit, Truework, Fast, Evervault, Trala, The Browser Company, Esusu. Jeff is Founding Partner of Next Play Ventures and the executive chairman of LinkedIn. Prior to becoming executive chairman in June 2020, Jeff was the CEO of LinkedIn. During his 11-year tenure, LinkedIn grew its membership base from 33M to more than 690M, increased its revenue from $78M to over $7.9B. Jeff is also a founding LP and serves on the investment committee of Concrete Rose, an early stage investment fund investing in diverse founders, start-ups serving underserved communities and/or building diverse teams.



    Investment Firm Key

       VC = Venture Capital
       PE = Private Equity
       A = Angel
       I = Incubator
       MB = Merchant Bank
       VD = Venture Debt
       FI = Family Investment Office
       FOF = Fund of Funds
       ED = Economic Development Office   
       TT = Technology Transfer Office
       CVC = Corporate Venture Capital
       SEC = Secondary Purchaser
       HF = Hedge Fund/Mutual Fund
       
       
       
    COMPANY STAGEREVENUE
    Venture Capital
    Seed Stage
    (includes "pre-seed," or
    concept stage)
    No Revenue
    Early StageMinimal
    Revenue
    Growth Stage
    (also called Mid-stage)
    $2M-$7M
    Expansion Stage
    (also called Late-stage)
    $7M and greater
    Private Equity
    Lower Middle Market$10M-$249M
    Middle Market$250M-$499M
    Upper Middle Market$500M-$1B
    Large Cap>$1B
       
       
     

    Investment Team:


    Name   Title
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    Brian Rumao Director
    Jeff Weiner Founding Partner
    Mike Gamson Venture Partner
    Sean Mendy Venture Partner

     

    Portfolio companies include:


      BrightHire


      Brightwheel
        web link


      Encantos


      Nana Technologies
        web link


      Neura Health
        web link


      Poised


      Trala
        web link


      Warp
        web link


      Xip
        web link


     

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