# Next Play Capital

> Next Play Capital is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 53 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, United States
- Total investments: 53
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Fund size: $200M
- Last fund: Oct 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/6385590?trk=prof-exp-company-name
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/nextplaycapital
- Website: http://www.nextplaycapital.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nextplaycapital

Next Play Capital is a venture capital investment platform structured to provide specialized investors access to top venture capital funds and companies. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Redwood City, California.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Next Play Capital. Shizune tracks 7 team members at Next Play Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/next-world-capital-2?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 15% |
| Software | 7 | 13% |
| SaaS | 6 | 11% |
| FinTech | 6 | 11% |
| Analytics | 6 | 11% |

104 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series E | 12 | 23% |
| Series C | 9 | 17% |
| Series B | 8 | 15% |
| Series D | 8 | 15% |
| Series A | 7 | 13% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 34 | 64% |
| China | 1 | 2% |
| Colombia | 1 | 2% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Caleagh Creech | Senior Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caleagh-creech |
| Hunter Hillenmeyer | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hunter-hillenmeyer |
| Jeff Sperbeck | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-sperbeck-b195 |
| John N. Ailanjian | General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-n-ailanjian |
| Kelvin Beachum Jr. | Entrepreneur In Residence | 26 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kelvin-beachum-jr |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Coactive AI | Coactive AI is a machine learning platform that unlocks analytics and insights from unstructured image and video data. Coactive AI brings unstructured data and assists analysts in making image and video data useful. Providing unprecedented insights, ease of use, and lightning-fast speeds. | $10.4M | Series A | Mar 21, 2023 |  |
| Coactive AI | Coactive AI is a machine learning platform that unlocks analytics and insights from unstructured image and video data. Coactive AI brings unstructured data and assists analysts in making image and video data useful. Providing unprecedented insights, ease of use, and lightning-fast speeds. | $3.6M | Seed | Mar 01, 2023 |  |
| North One | North One developed a banking app that focuses on delivering powerfully simple financial tools to businesses across America. North One's app is available on iOS, Android and desktop. | $67M | Series B | Oct 12, 2022 |  |
| Nightfall | Nightfall is a cloud data protection platform for every application that uses machine learning to identify and detect business-critical data. It also automatically fixes data exposure and hygiene issues without end-user impact. Its comprehensive SaaS data protection platform and the Nightfall Developer Platform, which is an open, flexible platformfor developers to integrate its data classification and protection capabilities anywhere, deliver its detection engine as a set of cloud-hosted APIs and SDKs, helping users to save time and keep business safe. | $40M | Series B | Aug 10, 2022 |  |
| La Haus | La Haus offers an online residential platform designed to help people to find an ideal home. Its platform lists multiple properties to choose from and provides recommendations from real estate specialists on the best alternatives that are completely free, enabling users to get an organized way to find a home and save money.The company was foundedin 2017 and is headquartered in Medellín, Antioquia. | $62M | Series C | Jun 21, 2022 |  |
| Gametime | Gametime sells last-minute tickets to the most popular events in sports, music, and theater. It makes finding the perfect live experience remarkably fast and easy. They curate an epic list of the most amazing possibilities in the city has to offer. Once the client selects their event it will examine over 10,000 potential seats and present them withthe 50 best values to select.Each curated seat option includes a panoramic high-resolution photo so their client can experience the actual view from their section. Navigate to the seat map to see price versus the location comparisons with true-to-life, full-color venue maps. Gametime delivers the tickets directly to the client's phone. Now they are offering sports, concerts, and theater events across the United States and Canada. | $30M |  | May 26, 2022 |  |
| Gametime | Gametime sells last-minute tickets to the most popular events in sports, music, and theater. It makes finding the perfect live experience remarkably fast and easy. They curate an epic list of the most amazing possibilities in the city has to offer. Once the client selects their event it will examine over 10,000 potential seats and present them withthe 50 best values to select.Each curated seat option includes a panoramic high-resolution photo so their client can experience the actual view from their section. Navigate to the seat map to see price versus the location comparisons with true-to-life, full-color venue maps. Gametime delivers the tickets directly to the client's phone. Now they are offering sports, concerts, and theater events across the United States and Canada. | $30M | Series C | May 26, 2022 |  |
| Kitopi | Kitopi is a food technology and cloud kitchen company that operates cloud kitchens, delivery-only restaurants, and multi-brand food service operations. The company provides kitchen infrastructure, operational support, and technology systems for restaurant brands expanding into delivery and dine-in markets across the Middle East. | $300M | Series C | May 10, 2022 |  |
| Welcome Tech | Welcome Tech is a digital platform that builds data-driven services for immigrant workforces. The company offers access to essential services, including healthcare, jobs, education, and financial tools. With over 4.5 million registered members and a growing base of enterprise partners, it enables inclusive economic participation while helpingemployers recruit, retain, and serve an increasingly diverse workforce. | $30M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 14, 2022 |  |
| AiFi | AiFi's platform uses computer vision and real-time sensor intelligence to understand how people, objects, and environments interact within a physical space. By creating a continuously updated spatial understanding of the environment, AiFi allows physical locations to perceive, reason, and respond in real time.AiFi’s technology powersapplications such as frictionless checkout, real-time inventory awareness, and operational insights in retail environments. Beyond retail, the platform is designed to be extensible to any physical space where understanding movement, behavior, and context is critical. By bridging the gap between the digital and physical worlds, AiFi helps organizations operate more efficiently, improve user experiences, and unlock new ways of interacting with physical environments.At its core, AiFi transforms physical spaces into software-defined environments by making them measurable, adaptable, and intelligent. | $65M | Series B | Mar 11, 2022 |  |

10 of 53 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manhattan-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [SoftBank Vision Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softbank-vision-fund) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Next Play Capital invest in?

Next Play Capital invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Series E and Series C stage. Most of the 53 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 Play Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Next Play Capital?

The team at Next Play Capital includes Caleagh Creech (Senior Associate), Hunter Hillenmeyer (Venture Partner) and Jeff Sperbeck (Venture Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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