# Thomas Ball

> Thomas Ball is a Series A investor at Next Coast Ventures (Austin) backing Software and SaaS. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Next Coast Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/next-coast-ventures-2)
- Location: Austin, United States
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 63%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cthomasball/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/tball11
- Website: https://x.com/tball11

Thomas Ball is a Series A investor at Next Coast Ventures in Austin focused on Software and SaaS. Thomas Ball is the co-founder and managing director of Next Coast Ventures, a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage information technology companies, with a primary focus on Internet, software, and technology-enabled business and consumer services.Tom was previously at Austin Ventures from 2005-2015, serving as a general partner. Hewas also the first investor in RetailMeNot, Inc.Prior to his involvement with Austin Ventures and RetailMeNot, Tom founded a number of successful companies, including Openfield Technologies, which merged with Razorgator Interactive Group, where Tom was CEO, and eCoupons, where he was also CEO until the sale of the company to Lifeminders (NASDAQ: LFMN).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 22% |
| SaaS | 6 | 19% |
| Internet | 5 | 16% |
| Advertising | 5 | 16% |
| Analytics | 3 | 9% |

56 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 16 | 50% |
| Series B | 6 | 19% |
| Seed | 2 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 6% |
| Series C | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 20 | 63% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Scorability | Scorability is a developer of a sports platform that matches athletes with college athletics programs. It also has technology that allows college coaches to identify the best players for their programs and helps prospective student-athletes navigate the recruiting process more directly and transparently. | $40M |  | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| Uplinq | Uplinq provides an AI-integrated platform that automates bookkeeping and tax workflows for small businesses. The software connects to financial accounts and common tools to categorize expenses, manage transactions, and generate real‑time financial reports without manual input. It incorporates human oversight for key tasks such as financialstatement reconciliation and tax strategy implementation. The system delivers on‑demand reporting, including profit and loss data, and syncs quickly with tools like QuickBooks. Its approach blends automation with expert review to streamline financial operations and make bookkeeping and tax compliance more manageable for business owners. | $10M | Series A | May 29, 2025 |  |
| Marqii | Marqii’s automated system removes the daily pain points associated with updating content across consumer-facing platforms. Marqii revolutionizes the way restaurants, bars, coffee shops and dispensaries publish their menus, location data, and specials to potential customers. This process creates consistent and accurate content which leads to anincrease in unbranded local search. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 30, 2024 |  |
| Grazzy | Grazzy is a payments platform that helps earn money, access instantly, save, and spend efficiently for front-line employees. | $4M | Seed | Jul 25, 2024 |  |
| Scorability | Scorability is a developer of a sports platform that matches athletes with college athletics programs. It also has technology that allows college coaches to identify the best players for their programs and helps prospective student-athletes navigate the recruiting process more directly and transparently. | $11M | Seed | Oct 17, 2023 |  |
| Osano | Osano is an easy-to-use data privacy platform that helps businesses to become compliant with laws such as GDPR and CCPA. | $25M | Series B | Aug 10, 2023 |  |
| Grazzy | Grazzy is a payments platform that helps earn money, access instantly, save, and spend efficiently for front-line employees. | $4.3M | Seed | Jan 20, 2023 |  |
| Audience.co | Audience.co allows users to book meetings, close deals, and retain more customers with their handwritten-mail platform. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida, United States. | $10M | Series A | Jun 28, 2022 |  |
| FloorFound | FloorFound is a developer of an e-commerce software platform that facilitates returns and resales of oversized products for retailers.The company's end-to-end turnkey solution manages the returns and resale process of oversized goods for eCommerce retailers by leveraging a network of freight, transportation, and logistics partners. Once areturn is initiated, FloorFound arranges for the item to be picked up from the customer and delivered to a nearby warehouse where it is inspected, labeled, and properly stored. Through FloorFound's platform, the item is then remerchandised and listed for resale on the retailer's digital storefront, where cost-savvy and environmentally conscious consumers can purchase it.In 2020, Chris Richter and Ryan Matthews headquartered the company in Austin, Texas. | $10.5M | Series A | May 19, 2022 |  |
| Enboarder | Enboarder is an onboarding and engagement platform that focuses on new hire experience and engagement rather than just tasks, forms and paperwork. The workflow engine accomplishes this by coaching managers via mobile phone at all stages during the onboarding process. It turns busy hiring managers into rock stars in the eyes of their new employeesby ensuring they know what to do to “wow their new hires”. For new employees, Enboarder delivers rich engaging content directly to their mobile phones from the moment they sign their offer letter. There are no applications to be downloaded, no usernames or logins. Enboarder just works…on any device. Best of all, HR can construct and build engaging workflows on their own, without requiring help or resources from IT, consultants or creative staff. Enboarder can be implemented rapidly and works seamlessly with your existing HR technology applications. | $32M | Series B | Feb 09, 2022 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [LiveOak Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liveoak-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Shasta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shasta-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Copper Sky Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/az-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Greycroft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greycroft) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Silverton Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/silverton-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Tuesday Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tuesday-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Next Coast Ventures

VC Fund · Austin, United States

Next Coast Ventures is an Austin venture capital firm that partners with bold entrepreneurs building innovative companies in big markets. It provides early-stage capital to high-growth startups in ‘Next Coast’ markets, using macro trends and themes to guide their investment strategy. In partnering with Next Coast, the fund provides hands-on,company building resources to its growing portfolio through its strong industry network, venture partner program and the founders’ own experiences as entrepreneurs. Learn more at www.nextcoastventures.com.

5 contacts available at Next Coast Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Rogers | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-rogers |
| Thomas Ball | Founder and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-ball |
| Anthony Walker | Co-Head and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-walker-a380 |
| Anthony Walker | Co-Head and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-walker-68f9 |
| Cotter Cunningham | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cotter-cunningham |

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## FAQ

### What does Thomas Ball invest in?

Thomas Ball invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Thomas Ball last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Thomas Ball closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 32 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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