# NextFab

> NextFab is a VC fund in Philadelphia backing Medical Device and Health Care. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Philadelphia, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nextfab-studio
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/NextFab_PHL
- Website: http://nextfab.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NextFabStudio/

NextFab is a VC fund in Philadelphia focused on Medical Device and Health Care. NextFab’s mission is to foster personal fulfillment, innovation, and economic development through providing broad-based awareness of, access to, competence with, and commerce enabled by Next-generation digital design and Fabrication technologies and services.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Medical Device | 4 | 25% |
| Health Care | 3 | 19% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 19% |
| Toys | 2 | 13% |
| Robotics | 2 | 13% |

44 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 38% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 25% |
| Angel | 2 | 13% |
| Grant | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Evan D. Malone | President | 0 | — |
| Todor Raykov | Director of Venture Services | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aepnus Technology | Aepnus Technology company provides Electrified chemicals for carbon-free future. | $8M | Seed | Jun 13, 2024 |  |
| Haylon Technologies | Haylon Technologies is creating the future of smart batteries. | $330K | Angel | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Thrivo Technologies | We believe that with our technology, salon SMBs will win against D2C hair color competitors. Bricks and mortar salons can now seamlessly deliver salon hair color services to the entire market of hair color consumers through omni-channel enablement. |  | Angel | Dec 31, 2021 |  |
| Andluca | Andluca develops smart glass and smart window products that are powered by UV light and solar energy to help buildings and homes save energy. The company was founded in 2017 as a spin-out from Princeton University, and subsequently expanded its operations to New York and California. | $750K | Pre-Seed | May 20, 2020 |  |
| Pression | Pression’s patented, non-invasive, smart compression platform, the Wave, increases circulation body-wide and improves cardiac function. Our initial focus is to support heart failure patients to mobilize excess retained fluids (#1 cause of US hospitalization), increase oxygen delivery to vital organs and improve overall quality of life. The platformis based on proven science and improves upon nearly all the downsides of previous systems. | $20K | Pre-Seed | Jan 15, 2020 |  |
| Hava Health | Hava is a pre-clinical stage health company with a singular mission to reduce smoking-related illness and death. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Nov 13, 2019 |  |
| Unruly Splats | Unruly Splats manufactures Stompable, super-durable, programmable floor tiles with built-in lights & sounds. | $1.8M | Seed | May 21, 2019 |  |
| Unruly Studios | Unruly Studios creates interactive games that empower children with critical STEM skills while stimulating creative problem solving through physical activity and social engagement. Its pioneering product, Unruly Tiles, teaches kids between the age group of 6-12 years to code and develop creative problem-solving skills while balancing screen-timeand play-time. Unruly Tiles is a set of programmable electronic floor tiles that kids can run around and jump on to play games created by them.Unruly Studios was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $1.8M | Seed | May 21, 2019 |  |
| SOLUtion Medical | SOLUtion Medical is a developing an autoinjector device aimed at adrenal insufficiency patients. SOLUtion Medical's twist-to-mix reconstituting syringe and autoinjector afford users efficient and reliable life-saving care and reclaimed confidence in times of adrenal crises through intuitive design. | $25K | Seed | Apr 29, 2019 |  |
| Deepwave Digital | Deepwave Digital directly enables the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) in radio frequency (RF) and wireless systems by supplying customers with an integrated hardware and software solution. Their technology moves the AI computation engine to the signal edge of the RF system to reduce network bandwidth, latency, and human-drivenanalysis requirements. Deepwave Digital is a dedicated team of RF industry experts with over fifty years of combined experience providing digital signal processing solutions to the commercial and defense industries. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 26, 2019 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-franklin-technology-partners-of-southeastern-pennsylvania) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Amazon Alexa Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amazon-alexa-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Clean Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clean-energy-ventures-cev) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Rough Draft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rough-draft-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does NextFab invest in?

NextFab invests primarily in Medical Device, Health Care and Manufacturing startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 16 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 NextFab?

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### Who are the partners at NextFab?

The team at NextFab includes Evan D. Malone (President) and Todor Raykov (Director of Venture Services). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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