# Next Level Ventures

> Next Level Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Des Moines, United States
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last fund: Jan 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nextlevelvc/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/nextlevelvc
- Website: https://www.nextlevelvc.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Next-Level-Ventures-101751628637677

Next Level Ventures is a VC fund in Des Moines focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Next Level Ventures provides capital for great entrepreneurs and growing companies; focus on ag/bio, b2b/data, and fintech. They focus on venture capital, growth capital, expansion capital, startup, and fintech.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 16% |
| SaaS | 4 | 13% |
| Medical | 4 | 13% |
| Biotechnology | 4 | 13% |

60 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 10 | 31% |
| Seed | 9 | 28% |
| Series B | 4 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Barbara Gooch | Director of Administration | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barbara-gooch |
| Craig Ibsen | Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-ibsen |
| Dave Tucker | Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-tucker-1671 |
| Duane Harris | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/duane-harris-2 |
| Liz Keehner | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liz-keehner-f284 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mach | Mach is the global leader in off-road autonomy, trusted by top OEMs for over a decade. We deliver proven full stack solutions, which include ruggedized hardware, scalable software, and advanced AI, across agriculture, land care, construction, mining, defense, and maritime. | $7M | Seed | Dec 09, 2025 |  |
| Hummingbirds | Hummingbirds is a SaaS-enabled marketplace that helps brands find and work with hyperlocal content creators and influencers. | $5.4M | Seed | Oct 30, 2024 |  |
| Hummingbirds | Hummingbirds is a SaaS-enabled marketplace that helps brands find and work with hyperlocal content creators and influencers. | $3.3M | Seed | Dec 05, 2023 |  |
| iotaMotion | IotaMotion standardizes cochlear implant insertion expanding access to cochlear interventions for surgeons and patients. Its open-platform robotic-assisted system aims to decrease surgical variability by controlling the speed and acceleration of electrode insertion. | $12M | Series A | Jul 26, 2023 |  |
| Hummingbirds | Hummingbirds is a SaaS-enabled marketplace that helps brands find and work with hyperlocal content creators and influencers. | $1M | Seed | Jan 05, 2023 |  |
| Pitchly | Pitchly provides a SaaS platform for non-technical users to create data-infused real-time PowerPoint and Word documents linked to internal business data wherever it may live. Typically, before Pitchly, this work takes place in disconnected and inefficient tools like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Sharepoint, or IT-owned databases. The platform aggregatesdisparate information sources, making information easy to catalog, find, and produce compelling and relevant data-driven Word and PowerPoint documents. This generates a 93% reduction in time to create data-heavy documents with 100% error reduction; all in half the time it takes to locate information when compared to traditional approaches.Pitchly end-users can even create custom forms to populate data to those original sources to make certain their teams are using the most relevant and up-to-date data. It aggregates digital data sources, such as Excel, SQL, Salesforce, and more, into one normalized tabular view of the data to reference, search, filter, and then integrate into documents and presentations in real-time. The platform gives the ability to easily publish select information from your database(s) on a website, in various digital forms.The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa. | $7M | Series A | Oct 14, 2022 |  |
| Tractor Zoom | Tractor Zoom is committed to helping leaders in agriculture make empowered, data-driven decisions when it comes to buying, selling, financing, and insuring heavy equipment. | $5M | Series A | Oct 03, 2022 |  |
| Mazen Animal Health | Mazen Animal Health is a new company focused on developing, delivering and commercializing novel biological vaccines and therapeutics that disrupt the status quo and address complex or unsolved challenges in animal health and protein production. Their first disruptive solution is a reinvention of vaccines with a novel technology platform that willshift the paradigm in disease prevention. | $11.3M | Series A | May 05, 2022 |  |
| OpenLoop Health | Servicing all 42,000 zip codes nationwide, OpenLoop accelerates the delivery of patient care by matching our trusted community of certified clinicians and insurance partners with innovators in the digital health space. | $8M | Series A | Mar 15, 2022 |  |
| Gross-Wen Technologies | Gross-Wen Technologies is a biotechnology company that specializes in the fields of water quality, wastewater, and water nitrogen. It helps municipalities and industrial clients sustainably treat water in more effective and affordable ways. | $6.5M | Series A | Aug 20, 2021 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ISA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/isa-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [M25](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/M25-VC) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Ag Startup Engine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ag-startup-engine) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ag Ventures Alliance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ag-ventures-alliance) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Rural Vitality Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rural-vitality-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Allos Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allos-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Next Level Ventures invest in?

Next Level Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Next Level Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Next Level Ventures?

The team at Next Level Ventures includes Barbara Gooch (Director of Administration), Craig Ibsen (Managing Partner) and Dave Tucker (Partner), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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