Next Play Ventures
VC Fund
Menlo Park, United States
Next Play Ventures is a VC fund in Menlo Park focused on Software and Internet. Our mission is to coach and invest in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations. Led by Jeff Weiner and Brian Rumao. Sector focus areas include B2B / enterprise software, financial tech, consumer apps, health and wellness and education. We are interested in productivity software and virtual work, direct-to-consumer / e-commerce, SaaS, and data and AI/ML-powered platforms.
- Total investments:
- 86
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 1%
Last updated:
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Industries Next Play Ventures invests in
Stages Next Play Ventures invests in
Countries Next Play Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.9M–$6M
- Series A
- $5.1M–$26M
- Series B
- $9.8M–$55M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 17 (20%)
- Internet 12 (14%)
- Education 11 (13%)
- Health Care 9 (10%)
- Artificial Intelligence 9 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 29 (34%)
- Series A 23 (27%)
- Series B 15 (17%)
- Series C 7 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (2%)
Country
- United States 48 (56%)
- Brazil 1 (1%)
- Mexico 1 (1%)
- Ireland 1 (1%)
- Nigeria 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Brian Rumao
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Jeff Weiner
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 68 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Century Health accelerates drug development and commercialization by applying AI to real-world data. It is far too slow today to answer critical questions because the richest clinical data is locked away in silos. Our platform does the heavy lifting to rapidly get you the insight you need, all while supporting the research community and protectingpatient privacy. | $5M / Seed / May 19, 2026 | ||
| Encryption infrastructure for developers. | $25M / Series B / Mar 05, 2026 | ||
| Arbor is an AI consultant that turns frontline conversations into intelligence-- through frontline employee feedback, customer research, and market research. | $6.3M / Seed / Feb 02, 2026 | ||
| Blockit AI provides an AI scheduling agent that automates meeting coordination for individuals and teams. The assistant reviews calendars, proposes options, secures confirmations, and books meetings to remove email back‑and‑forth. It manages rescheduling, time zone alignment, and attendee updates with minimal manual input. The service includescontrols for availability rules, preferences, and delegation, supporting one‑to‑one and group scheduling. Privacy and data access settings help govern what the assistant can read, share, and act on. | $5M / Seed / Jan 22, 2026 | ||
| A robot in every home | Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 16, 2025 | ||
| Neura Health is a venture-backed startup with a mission to improve access and quality of care for neurologic conditions. Our longer-term vision is to find cures by learning from the experience of every neurology patient. We were inspired to create Neura because of two key problems in neurology: access and quality. Access is sub-par because thereare not enough neurologists in the country, so the average wait time is 35 days, with patients often having to travel hours to access the right specialist. Quality is sub-par because diagnoses are currently based on self-reported data with significant recency bias. | $8M / Seed / May 17, 2023 | ||
| Airspeed is a team-building platform for modern companies to connect digitally. Airspeed’s suite of apps offers simple and fun solutions to celebrate employee milestones, recognize colleagues with kudos, connect hybrid or remote teams, and more. Airspeed's platform serves as a system of record for culture, and helps companies build a strongculture of engagement, recognition, and collaboration. | $5M / Seed / May 04, 2023 | ||
| Trala is a developer of a music education application used to teach users to play the violin. Its application offers tutorials, daily lessons, and real-time feedback on mistakes, and its advanced signal processing technology recognizes chords in a busy intersection, providing users with a convenient, affordable, and effective way to learn theviolin. The app gives instant feedback on mistakes through signal processing and has thousands of video tutorials from famous violinists.It was founded in 2017 and has its headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. | $8M / Series A / Mar 16, 2023 | ||
| Humaans is a provider of HRIS employee management software for remote and distributed teams. Instead of a one-size-fits-all software platform, the company's employee management platform enables organizations to maintain a central hub of employee data while building a customizable people operations stack. The stack assists businesses inmanaging employee data, documents, reporting, and the people processes that drive the entire structure. It allows organizations to create a customizable HR stack that manages employee documents, data, payroll, contracts, and other "people ops" componentsTheir goal is to automate the entire employment lifecycle and simplify complex manual processes like onboarding, offboarding, promotions, compensation management, and more. | $15M / Series A / Oct 04, 2022 | ||
| Leland is a coaching marketplace for education and career goals. The marketplace provides coaches to assist people in taking standardized tests such as the SAT, ACT, GMAT, or GRE, as well as breaking into private equity, product management, investment banking, and other tech fields. It navigates career transitions and receives specializedmentorship to build skills in your chosen field. Leland charges transaction fees depending on how much a client pays a coach. | $4M / Seed / May 11, 2022 | ||
| See all 86 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Next Play Ventures invest in?
Next Play Ventures invests primarily in Software, Internet and Education startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 86 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Next Play Ventures invest in?
Next Play Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$6M at Seed, $5.1M–$26M at Series A and $9.8M–$55M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Next Play Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Next Play Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Next Play Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Next Play Ventures?
The team at Next Play Ventures includes Brian Rumao (Managing Director) and Jeff Weiner (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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