# Avie Tevanian

> Avie Tevanian is a seed investor at NextEquity Partners backing Information Technology. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [NextEquity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nextequity-partners)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- X (Twitter): https://x.com/avie
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aviet?locale=zh_CN

Avie Tevanian is a seed investor at NextEquity Partners in Menlo Park focused on Information Technology and Toys. Avie is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of NextEquity Partners. Avie also serves as a Managing Director of Elevation Partners, joining the firm in January 2010. Avie has more than two decades of operational and software expertise in consumer and enterprise technology businesses. Most recently, he was a member of the senior executive team atApple, Inc., where he led the company’s software strategy as Chief Software Technology Officer. Avie spent nearly ten years at Apple as part of the executive leadership team that turned around the company. While at Apple, he also served as Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, leading the software engineering team that developed Mac OS X, the operating system that still today powers Apple’s desktops and notebooks and that served as the base for iOS, which today powers Apple’s iPhone, the iPod Touch, and the iPad. Earlier in his career, Avie was Vice President of Software Engineering at NeXT Computer and was responsible for managing NeXT’s software engineering department and the NeXTSTEP operating system. Avie holds a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Rochester and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. While at Carnegie Mellon, he was a principal designer and engineer of the Mach operating system, on which OS X and iOS are based. He currently serves on the board of directors at Dolby Laboratories, Inc. and is a former Board member of Tellme Networks, Inc., an internet telecom company acquired by Microsoft

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 2 | 40% |
| Toys | 1 | 20% |
| Gaming | 1 | 20% |
| Content | 1 | 20% |
| Security | 1 | 20% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Series A | 2 | 40% |
| Series C | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Higgsfield | Higgsfield is a video AI firm aimed to making social media content creation accessible to everyone. | $50M | Series A | Sep 09, 2025 | https://higgsfield.ai/ |
| Alkira | Alkira Network is a developer of a network cloud that allows businesses to build and position multi-cloud network-as-a-service in minutes.The company's Network Cloud reinvents networking for the cloud era with hybrid and multi-cloud network connectivity, integrated network and security services, end-to-end day-2 operational visibility,advanced controls, and governance. Alkira Network Cloud is based on Alkira Cloud Services Exchange™ solution with a global unified network infrastructure delivered as-a-service for easy and simple consumption. Just draw the network across users, sites, and clouds on an intuitive digital design canvas, provision it in one click, and start using it in minutes. Alkira’s solution is used by Fortune-100 enterprises, leading system integrators, and managed service providers.Amir Khan and Atif Khan established the company in San Jose, California in 2018. | $100M | Series C | May 15, 2024 | https://www.alkira.com |
| Cigent Technology | Cigent Technology is an IT company that protects businesses and individuals from ransomware, data theft, and malicious insider attacks. They safeguard data throughout its lifecycle by incorporating prevention-based defenses into storage and individual files. Cigent's experts have developed prevention methods that are superior to anythingavailable today based on decades of data recovery, cybersecurity, and device sanitization experience.The company's secure SSDs include "safe rooms" that use zero trust multi-factor authentication and hardware-based encryption to protect data at all times, even after the user logs in. | $7.6M | Series A | Apr 21, 2020 | https://www.cigent.com/ |
| Seamless Toy Company | Seamless Toy Company enable kids to be makers.Their first product, ATOMS, is a system of plug-n-play sensors, motors, and action blocks for kids (and anyone) to add interactive functionality to their creations. ATOMS are fun, fast and don't require any electronics or programming skills to get going.ATOMS work seamlessly with LEGO andother toys, can be sewn or velcro-ed onto fabrics, or bolted onto more permanent creations.ATOMS work with iOS devices (Android soon), so users can control their ATOMS from their iPhone/iPod/iPad, and can also inversely control their iPhone from ATOMS.ATOMS are sold through starter sets that show kids what each ATOM does through already-popular play experiences (imaginary characters and kid-scale play). However, we expect kids' interest in ATOMS to outlast the starter-set themes, as they go onto use ATOMS in their own creations.ATOMS can also be bought individually for the "from-scratch" project doer, and we will be releasing a new ATOM every month to serve our enthusiastic repeat customers. | $2.6M | Seed | Nov 13, 2013 | http://www.myATOMS.com |
| Knotch | Knotch is the content intelligence platform for brands. We pair performance data with consumer sentiment in real time to help marketers plan, measure, optimize and benchmark. Information is the key to growth, and Knotch is committed to enhancing your content efforts across owned and paid strategies. | $4.3M | Seed | May 01, 2013 | https://www.knotch.it |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CyberJunction](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cyberjunction) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Koch Disruptive Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/koch-disruptive-technologies) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Angel Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acof) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AI Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ai-capital-968d) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About NextEquity Partners

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

NextEquity Partners makes mid-late stage private investments in consumer and enterprise technology companies with $10-50M+ revenue. Founded in 2015, NextEquity is led by senior executives from Apple (former Apple Chief Software Officer Avie Tevanian and former Apple CFO Fred Anderson) and private equity execs from Elevation Partners (Adam Hopkins,Rami Reyes) who have been investing together for over 10 years in leading companies such as Facebook, Yelp, MarketShare, Sonos, Airbnb, The RealReal, Masterclass, Ring, Venafi, and SentinelOne. The team brings a unique combination of Apple DNA, Silicon Valley relationships, and private equity discipline to mid-late stage tech investing.

5 contacts available at NextEquity Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Avie Tevanian | Co-Founder / Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avie-tevanian |
| Fred Anderson | Co-Founder / Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fred-anderson |
| Adam Hopkins | Co-Founder / Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-hopkins |
| Rami Reyes | Co-Founder and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rami-reyes |
| Steve Vafier | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-vafier |

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## FAQ

### What does Avie Tevanian invest in?

Avie Tevanian invests primarily in Information Technology, Toys and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Avie Tevanian last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Avie Tevanian closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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