Jeff Weiner
Founding Partner @ Next Play Ventures
Mountain View, United States
Jeff Weiner is a seed investor at Next Play Ventures in Mountain View focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Jeff Weiner is the executive chairman of LinkedIn, where he continues to help LinkedIn realize its vision of creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. He'll also continue to mentor and coach the leadership team, advise on key strategic initiatives, and help to represent the company externally. In addition to hisongoing work at LinkedIn, Jeff is focused on investing, coaching and his philanthropic work, including helping to ensure that compassion is taught and practiced in every primary school in the U.S.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 and expanded the team from 338 employees to over 16,000.Also, presently resides on the board of directors for Intuit, Donorschoose.org and Everfi, an ed tech company with which he co-founded The Compassion Project, a non-profit whose mission is to ensure compassion is taught in every elementary school in the U.S.Additionally, an active early and growth stage investor through his Next Play Ventures fund and separately, the newly created Concrete Rose Capital fund, focused on investing in diverse founders, start-ups serving underserved communities and/or building diverse teams.Prior to LinkedIn, was an Executive in Residence at Accel Partners and Greylock Partners. Primarily focused on advising the leadership teams of the firm's existing consumer technology portfolio companies while also working closely with the firm’s partners to evaluate new investment opportunities.Previously served in key leadership roles at Yahoo! for over seven years, most recently as the Executive Vice President of Yahoo!'s Network Division managing Yahoo's consumer web product portfolio, including Yahoo's Front Page, Mail, Search, and Media products.
- Total investments:
- 68
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 1%
Last updated:
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Industries Jeff Weiner invests in
Stages Jeff Weiner invests in
Countries Jeff Weiner invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$7M
- Series A
- $8M–$28M
- Series C
- $12M–$200M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 17 (25%)
- Artificial Intelligence 12 (18%)
- Internet 9 (13%)
- Education 8 (12%)
- Information Technology 8 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 28 (41%)
- Series A 15 (22%)
- Series C 10 (15%)
- Series B 9 (13%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (1%)
Country
- United States 44 (65%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- Mexico 1 (1%)
- Ireland 1 (1%)
- United Kingdom 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Century Health accelerates drug development and commercialization by applying AI to real-world data. It is far too slow today to answer critical questions because the richest clinical data is locked away in silos. Our platform does the heavy lifting to rapidly get you the insight you need, all while supporting the research community and protectingpatient privacy. | $5M / Seed / May 19, 2026 | ||
| Encryption infrastructure for developers. | $25M / Series B / Mar 05, 2026 | ||
| Blockit AI provides an AI scheduling agent that automates meeting coordination for individuals and teams. The assistant reviews calendars, proposes options, secures confirmations, and books meetings to remove email back‑and‑forth. It manages rescheduling, time zone alignment, and attendee updates with minimal manual input. The service includescontrols for availability rules, preferences, and delegation, supporting one‑to‑one and group scheduling. Privacy and data access settings help govern what the assistant can read, share, and act on. | $5M / Seed / Jan 22, 2026 | ||
| Not Diamond focuses on optimizing the use of various AI models based on their strengths and capabilities. | $2.3M / Pre-Seed / Jul 30, 2024 | ||
| Speak is a developer of a mobile language-learning application focused on English learning. The application uses speech recognition technology to support conversational practice in real-world contexts. It enables users to improve spoken English skills and listening comprehension, including exposure to different accents, through structured speakingexercises and interaction-based learning features. | $20M / Series B / Jun 21, 2024 | ||
| Warp is a developer of a Rust-based coding terminal designed to make teams productive at coding and application development.The company's software divides the terminal output of a command-line interface into a sequence of commands rather than a single buffer. It replaces the character buffer with a full-fledged text editor which enablessoftware developers to navigate, copy, save and share units of work and transform the terminal from an inherently single-user utility into a modern collaborative application where sessions, blocks, and environments are all persistent, searchable and shared by link. | $50M / Series B / Jun 21, 2023 | ||
| Drata is an advanced security and compliance automation platform with the mission to help companies earn and keep the trust of their users, customers, partners, and prospects. Drata helps companies streamline their SOC 2 compliance through continuous, automated control monitoring and evidence collection, resulting in lower costs and time spentpreparing for annual audits.Drata was founded in 2020 by Adam Markowitz, Daniel Marashlian, and Troy Markowitz and is based in San Diego, California, United States. | $200M / Series C / Dec 07, 2022 | ||
| Scoop is a creator of multi-platform tools that enable businesses and workers to take advantage of flexible work arrangements.The company's platform provides the tools and information required to reduce operational costs while giving workers the opportunity to work from any location, making it simple for businesses to run both an in-officeand remote environment.Scoop was established in January 2015 by Rob Sadow and Jonathan Sadow in San Francisco, California. | $8M / Seed / Nov 17, 2022 | ||
| Pave is a market-leading compensation management platform for the modern enterprise.Our powerful suite of real-time compensation data and workflow software—infused with AI insights—allows teams to take control of their investment in people, make pay decisions with confidence, and earn trust from leaders and employees alike.Companies runningtheir compensation programs on Pave include Atlassian, Block, Coinbase, CSL Behring, Databricks, Dropbox, Electronic Arts, Instacart, McDonald’s, Okta, OpenAI, Perplexity, Ramp, Rivian, Snowflake, SoFi, Stripe, Unity, Zoom, and thousands more.To learn more, visit: www.pave.com | $100M / Series C / Jun 28, 2022 | ||
| Xip provides a personalised learning experience that transforms how people learn online. | $5M / Seed / Jun 15, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Next Play Ventures
Our mission is to coach and invest in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations. Led by Jeff Weiner and Brian Rumao.Sector focus areas include B2B / enterprise software, financial tech, consumer apps, health and wellness and education. We are interested in productivity software and virtual work,direct-to-consumer / e-commerce, SaaS, and data and AI/ML-powered platforms.
Next Play Ventures Contacts
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What does Jeff Weiner invest in?
Jeff Weiner invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 68 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Jeff Weiner's check size?
Jeff Weiner typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$7M at Seed, $8M–$28M at Series A and $12M–$200M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jeff Weiner participates in.
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When did Jeff Weiner last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jeff Weiner closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 68 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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