# Adam Rogers

> Adam Rogers is a seed investor at Next Coast Ventures (Boca Raton) backing SaaS and Software. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Next Coast Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/next-coast-ventures-2)
- Location: Boca Raton, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Feb 2022
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adammrogers
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/adamr
- Website: http://www.adamr.com

Adam Rogers is a tech veteran with more than 20 years experience leading SaaS organizations to achieve rapid innovation, profitability, and market share dominance. His career began as Ultimate Software’s first intern and he quickly became a leading innovator in the field, pioneering the very first multi-tenant Enterprise SaaS solution and scalingit to more than $1.4B in recurring revenue. As CTO and eventually CEO, Adam consistently brought new advancements to the Human Capital Management market, including AI, predictive and prescriptive analytics, natural language processing, and mobile technologies. His steadfast commitment to putting people first nurtured an award-winning culture (#2 on Fortune’s Best Places to Work in his final year as CEO) with employee retention consistently >95%. After he and his team grew Ultimate’s stock from $3 to $330, Adam guided an $11B take-private deal in 2019 and a $22B merger one year later. Adam currently serves as a venture partner for Next Coast Ventures, leveraging his robust product, operations, and talent expertise to advise organizations on turning proof to concept, driving value through technology, go-to-market strategy, and a focus on company culture to fuel rapid growth.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Architect.io | DevOps-as-a-Service is our unique take on continuous delivery that aims to do more than deploy a single microservice to a container platform. Armed with an understanding of your system's dependency graph, Architect automates the deployment of distributed services, configures secure network policies, and enables on-demand stacks across all ofyour environments. DevOps-as-a-Service unlocks the potential of cloud-native developers and by supporting our over-worked and under-staffed DevOps teams. | $5M | Seed | Feb 15, 2022 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Abstraction Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abstraction-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Comcast Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comcast-interactive-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [NextGen Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nextgenvp) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Spike Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spike-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Next Coast Ventures

VC Fund · Austin, United States

Next Coast Ventures is an Austin venture capital firm that partners with bold entrepreneurs building innovative companies in big markets. It provides early-stage capital to high-growth startups in ‘Next Coast’ markets, using macro trends and themes to guide their investment strategy. In partnering with Next Coast, the fund provides hands-on,company building resources to its growing portfolio through its strong industry network, venture partner program and the founders’ own experiences as entrepreneurs. Learn more at www.nextcoastventures.com.

5 contacts available at Next Coast Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Rogers | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-rogers |
| Thomas Ball | Founder and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-ball |
| Anthony Walker | Co-Head and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-walker-a380 |
| Anthony Walker | Co-Head and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-walker-68f9 |
| Cotter Cunningham | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cotter-cunningham |

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## FAQ

### What does Adam Rogers invest in?

Adam Rogers invests primarily in SaaS and Software startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Adam Rogers last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Adam Rogers closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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