# NEXT VENTŪRES

> NEXT VENTŪRES is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Health Care and Wellness. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 45%
- Last fund: Jul 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nextventuresvc
- Website: https://nextventures.com

NEXT VENTŪRES is a venture capital firm that invests in the sports, fitness, health, and wellness markets. With established expertise and deep connections in these markets as well as proven financial track records, the NEXT VENTŪRES team is well positioned to create significant value for their investors and their portfolio companies.The firm wasestablished in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, CA

## Contacts

5 contacts available for NEXT VENTŪRES. Shizune tracks 3 team members at NEXT VENTŪRES. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/next-ventūres?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.9M–$13M |
| Series A | $4.5M–$17M |
| Series B | $25M–$100M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 13 | 42% |
| Wellness | 6 | 19% |
| Medical | 5 | 16% |
| Sports | 4 | 13% |
| Consumer Electronics | 4 | 13% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 42% |
| Series A | 10 | 32% |
| Series B | 2 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 6% |
| Series C | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 45% |
| Canada | 3 | 10% |
| Finland | 1 | 3% |
| Thailand | 1 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Julian Eison | Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julian-eison |
| Lance Armstrong | Managing Partner and Founding Partner | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lance-armstrong |
| Melanie Strong | Founding Partner, Health and Wellness VC | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/melanie-strong |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Trial Library | Trial Library is an oncology clinical trials company. | $10M | Series A | Dec 02, 2025 |  |
| BranchLab | BranchLab makes healthcare advertising better so that people may find the best healthcare options. |  | Seed | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| Cofertility | Cofertility is a human-centered fertility ecosystem that provides egg donation and egg-freezing services for fertility care and third-party reproduction. The company provides a normalized and scalable method for egg donation, which transforms the financial model of egg freezing by connecting women who wish to store their eggs with families unableto conceive otherwise. By donating half, women have the opportunity to freeze their eggs at no cost. | $7.3M | Series A | Apr 10, 2025 |  |
| Eternal | With a mission to keep athletes active and thriving in their chosen sports for as long as possible, Eternal provides members with a holistic understanding of their health, fitness, and benchmarks for key markers of the aging process along with guidance from high-performance care teams to support every stage of an athlete’s journey. | $13M | Seed | Feb 08, 2025 |  |
| Eternal | Eternal offers lifetime athletes an expert team of health and performance experts to help them stay active in the sports they like for as long as possible. | $13.3M | Seed | Jan 15, 2025 |  |
| Pair Team | Pair Team is on a mission to build the primary care infrastructure for America’s most vulnerable communities.They are the first tech-enabled care team that empowers safety-net primary care systems and the Medicaid & Medicare patients they serve. They act as an extension of the clinical staff to provide a personalized, high-touch careexperience while addressing patients' barriers to care such as lack of transportation, housing/food insecurity, and mobile phone access. Internally, they are building a unique care delivery platform to ensure clinical best practices, integrate care with community-based organizations, and automate administrative work so that clinicians can focus on time with our patients. | $9M | Series A | Oct 19, 2023 |  |
| Vital Bio | Vital Bio is reimagining lab testing to enable radically accessible care. Vital Bio is designing a new generation of tools to empower patients in monitoring health and managing the disease. | $48M |  | Jul 24, 2023 |  |
| Vital Bio | Vital Bio is reimagining lab testing to enable radically accessible care. Vital Bio is designing a new generation of tools to empower patients in monitoring health and managing the disease. | $18M | Series A | Jul 24, 2023 |  |
| OK Capsule | OK Capsule is a B2B platform that provides the technology, products, fulfillment, and strategic support that makes it safe, simple, and sustainable for companies to launch and scale the delivery of personalized nutrition to their customers. | $7M | Series A | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Juno Medical | Juno Care is a whole-family healthcare platform that provides modern open-access care for the entire family’s day-to-day needs, including pediatrics, women’s health, adult primary care, and same-day services. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in New York, New York, United States. | $12M | Series A | Dec 08, 2022 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does NEXT VENTŪRES invest in?

NEXT VENTŪRES invests primarily in Health Care, Wellness and Medical startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 31 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 NEXT VENTŪRES's check size?

NEXT VENTŪRES typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$13M at Seed, $4.5M–$17M at Series A and $25M–$100M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds NEXT VENTŪRES participates in.

### How do I contact NEXT VENTŪRES?

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### Who are the partners at NEXT VENTŪRES?

The team at NEXT VENTŪRES includes Julian Eison (Managing Partner), Lance Armstrong (Managing Partner and Founding Partner) and Melanie Strong (Founding Partner, Health and Wellness VC). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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