Melody Koh
Partner @ NextView Ventures
New York, United States
Melody Koh is a seed investor at NextView Ventures in New York focused on Software and E-Commerce. Melody is a Partner at NextView Ventures based in its New York office.Prior to joining NextView, Melody was Head of Product at Blue Apron (NYSE: APRN). Melody joined Blue Apron as the first product hire when the company was 18 months old with 20 HQ employees. She helped scale the business through hyper-growth (25x in 3.5 years) and to its IPO,building and leading a 35-person team across Product Management, Product Design, and Analytics.Previously, Melody was a Product Manager at Fab.com leading marketing & analytics products. Before joining Fab.com, Melody was the founder/CEO of a seed-funded wine subscription e-commerce service. In addition to her operating and entrepreneurial roles, Melody was also a venture investor at Time Warner’s strategic VC group and was a one of six inaugural members of First Round Capital’s Product Co-op initiative. Melody began her career as an investment banking analyst at Evercore Partners.Melody holds a B.S. in Commerce with Distinction from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 48%
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Industries Melody Koh invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (19%)
- E-Commerce 2 (10%)
- Real Estate 2 (10%)
- Financial Services 2 (10%)
- Information Technology 2 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (52%)
- Series A 5 (24%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (5%)
- Funding Round 1 (5%)
Investments
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| Jones helps quit smoking by using a combination of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), behavioral support, and community. | $10M / Series A / Apr 09, 2025 | ||
| Jones helps quit smoking by using a combination of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), behavioral support, and community. | $5.1M / Seed / Apr 18, 2024 | ||
| FirstMate is a software company that designs and develops software tools for NFT creators. | $3.8M / Seed / Aug 28, 2023 | ||
| Sourcetable connect, sync, and query all the data in a spreadsheet, without needing to know how to code. Founded in 2019, Sourcetable is based in San Francisco, California, United States. | $1.3M / Seed / Jul 10, 2023 | ||
| Opus is a hospitality training platform purpose-built for the frontline that provides digital tools to help service staff learn skills, complete training modules, and access performance resources. The platform offers structured learning pathways, micro-lessons, and interactive content tailored to operational roles such as servers, housekeepers,bartenders, and guest services teams. It supports onboarding, upskilling, and continuous education by enabling employees to engage with training materials on mobile devices and track progress through competency checklists. Opus also includes features for managers to assign courses, monitor completion rates, and align training activities with service standards and operational needs. The platform integrates assessment and feedback mechanisms that help learners reinforce knowledge and demonstrate proficiency in core hospitality tasks. Through its digital training infrastructure, Opus supports workforce development and skill alignment within hospitality environments. | $6.8M / Series A / May 24, 2023 | ||
| MelodyArc is a technology company that is combining advanced automation, AI and people to transform how frontline teams service their customers. Our flagship product, MelodyArc CX is the world's first all-in-one CX operations platform. Designed to layer on top of existing CRM and customer support channels, MelodyArc CX increases resolutionrates and reduces overall operating costs by 50% while preserving the special human factor that defines great customer experiences. MelodyArc CX is powered by a proprietary decision engine built to make strategic expertise scalable to the front lines, enabling a consistent, perfectly on-brand experience. This engine is bundled with customer support-specific AIs and ArcAgents, who are there to guide the system in special circumstances or elevate exceptions. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in NY/NJ, MelodyArc is backed by leading investors including Flybridge, Bloomberg BETA, Nextview, Flexport and FJ Labs. The best is built in. | $7.1M / Seed / Jan 30, 2023 | ||
| Sourcetable connect, sync, and query all the data in a spreadsheet, without needing to know how to code. Founded in 2019, Sourcetable is based in San Francisco, California, United States. | $4.3M / Jul 22, 2022 | ||
HomePace
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HomePace enables homeowners and homebuyers to gain financial flexibility and increase their purchasing power. | $7M / Series A / Apr 26, 2022 | |
| Ten Little is a predictive e-commerce platform that makes shopping for kids easy at every stage. The company was founded in 2019 by Fatma Collins and Julie Rogers. | $5M / Seed / Jun 16, 2021 | ||
| Fam is the best way to socialize on your phone in a way that's most similar to interacting in real life. We’re a social network that helps you connect with friends and new people through live video chat. We believe that the way people socially interact on their phones is fundamentally broken, and causing widespread anxiety, insecurity, andloneliness - and we have the foundation to solve that for an entire generation. | $1.5M / Series A / May 01, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About NextView Ventures
NextView Ventures is a high-conviction, hands-on seed VC with a thematic investing focus. NextView helps entrepreneurs build companies of consequence to shape a future of collective prosperity.
NextView Ventures Contacts
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Lee Hower
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Melody Koh
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What does Melody Koh invest in?
Melody Koh invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Real Estate startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 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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