# NextGen Venture Partners

> NextGen Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Health Care. See 119 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Baltimore, United States
- Total investments: 119
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 19%
- Fund size: $1M
- Last fund: Feb 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nextgen-venture-partners/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/NextGenVP
- Website: http://nextgenvp.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NextGenVP

NextGen Venture Partners is a VC fund in Baltimore focused on Software and Health Care. NextGen Venture Partners invests $1-2M in seed-stage companies with the participation of 1,800+ Venture Partners. The firm specializes in the fields of private equity, business strategy, start-up acceleration, and fundraising.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$8.4M |
| Series A | $4M–$17M |
| Series B | $5M–$165M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 22 | 18% |
| Health Care | 18 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 12 | 10% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 11 | 9% |
| SaaS | 9 | 8% |

133 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 49 | 41% |
| Series A | 28 | 24% |
| Series B | 12 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 3% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 70 | 59% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Israel | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Hansen | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-hansen |
| Frank Ambrose | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frank-ambrose |
| Lauren Knausenberger | Venture Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lauren-knausenberger |
| Lisa Cuesta | Principal | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lisa-cuesta |
| Ajay Kapoor | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajay-kapoor-70dc |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SyntheticFi | https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/syntheticfi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyntheticFi | $13M | Seed | Jun 09, 2026 |  |
| Fourier Health | Fourier Health offers a platform that brings together clinical records from multiple sources and formats—such as PDFs, faxes, EHR data and handwritten notes—and transforms them into standardized, clinically meaningful summaries. The service supports a clinician-in-the-loop workflow so that outputs are verified and traceable back to originalsources, helping reduce data “hallucinations”. The system is configurable by specialty and use-case, enabling tailored summaries for providers in oncology, geriatrics or other areas, and it integrates with existing EHRs or document systems via APIs or Smart on FHIR apps. Fourier Health’s tools serve functions such as referral management, pre-visit readiness assessments, document labeling and triage, delivering actionable information directly into clinical workflows. | $8.4M | Seed | Oct 17, 2025 |  |
| Receive | Receive develops an earned revenue access platform for small and medium-sized businesses. | $4M | Seed | Jul 17, 2025 |  |
| Receive | Receive develops an earned revenue access platform for small and medium-sized businesses. | $4M | Seed | Jul 17, 2025 |  |
| Genesis Computing | Genesis Computing delivers secure, autonomous AI workers to enterprises in the Snowflake Data Cloud through their Genbots Platform. | $5M | Seed | Feb 26, 2025 |  |
| MirrorTab | MirrorTab specializes in providing pixel streaming technology aimed at enhancing web application security. This technology offers a proactive defense mechanism by creating secure virtual representations of web applications, effectively protecting customer interactions from client-side security threats. MirrorTab's solutions are designed toprioritize customer trust and security, making it a suitable choice for teams focused on safeguarding their web applications against cyber threats. The company's approach to cybersecurity emphasizes the importance of protecting web apps in a manner that is both innovative and focused on maintaining the integrity of customer data. | $8.5M | Seed | Feb 18, 2025 |  |
| Fourier Health | Fourier Health offers a platform that brings together clinical records from multiple sources and formats—such as PDFs, faxes, EHR data and handwritten notes—and transforms them into standardized, clinically meaningful summaries. The service supports a clinician-in-the-loop workflow so that outputs are verified and traceable back to originalsources, helping reduce data “hallucinations”. The system is configurable by specialty and use-case, enabling tailored summaries for providers in oncology, geriatrics or other areas, and it integrates with existing EHRs or document systems via APIs or Smart on FHIR apps. Fourier Health’s tools serve functions such as referral management, pre-visit readiness assessments, document labeling and triage, delivering actionable information directly into clinical workflows. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| Sandbox Wealth | Sandbox Wealth is a building liquidity solutions for clients of independent advisors and family offices. By pairing cash management and credit solutions with predictive analytics, we aim to offer sophisticated users with a differentiated banking experience while advisors can deepen relationships with their best clients. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Dec 04, 2024 |  |
| Statt | Statt is a first-to-market, Generative AI answers engine for policy and regulatory intelligence, analysis, and reporting. Statt's state-of-the-art tech and proprietary database of tens of millions of documents from 15,000 policy sources around the world, including U.S. federal and state regulatory and legislative data, enables the firstautomated workflow solution and customizable reports for the public policy, government affairs, strategic communications, and financial services sectors. | $2.8M | Seed | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| RunSafe Security | RunSafe Security is on a mission to immunize software from cyber attacks and disrupt hacker economics without developer friction. RunSafe's patented technology, Alkemist, inoculates customers' systems from an entire class of cyber attacks by stopping the infection at its source. Our customers integrate our product across build and deploytoolchains to protect open source, in-house code, and 3rd party binaries. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with an office in Huntsville, Alabama, RunSafe Security's customers span the critical infrastructure, IIoT, automotive, medical, develops, and national security industries. | $12M | Series B | Sep 17, 2024 |  |

10 of 119 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Next Coast Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/next-coast-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does NextGen Venture Partners invest in?

NextGen Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 119 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 NextGen Venture Partners's check size?

NextGen Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$8.4M at Seed, $4M–$17M at Series A and $5M–$165M 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 NextGen Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact NextGen Venture Partners?

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### Who are the partners at NextGen Venture Partners?

The team at NextGen Venture Partners includes Brian Hansen (Venture Partner), Frank Ambrose (Venture Partner) and Lauren Knausenberger (Venture Partner), among 54 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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