Next Coast Ventures

Next Coast Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas, established in 2015. The firm focuses on providing early-stage capital to innovative technology startups in emerging markets. Its investment strategy is guided by macro trends and themes, aiming to identify high-growth opportunities. Next Coast Ventures supports its portfolio companies not only with financial investment but also through hands-on resources, leveraging a strong industry network and the entrepreneurial experience of its founders. This collaborative approach enables the firm to partner closely with bold entrepreneurs to help them build successful businesses.

Thomas Ball

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Ben Beverly

Senior Associate

Jeff Browning

Venture Partner

Julian Castelli

Venture Partner

Jason Dorsey

Venture Partner

Zaz Floreani

Principal

Ricky Garcia

Senior Associate

Tatiana Gaspar

Associate

Jonathan Kaplan

COO

Michael Maloney

Senior Associate

Dagney Pruner

Director of Marketing Communications

Adam Rogers

Partner

Dustin Sellers

Partner

Michael Smerklo

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Michael Tian

Associate

Anthony Walke

Partner

Anthony Walker

Partner

Zeynep Young

Venture Partner

Past deals in Southern US

CrowdHealth

Seed Round in 2022
CrowdHealth is an anti-health insurance company creating a low cost, easy to use, tech enabled alternative.

Audience.co

Series A in 2022
Grow your business faster with our handwritten-mail platform. Book more meetings, close more deals and retain more customers with notes written by a real pen, sent effortlessly and at scale. In the time it takes to send a text, use our app to send to one or thousands of recipients. Our handwritten postcards and notes command a staggering 90% read rate and 3-5x the response of normal direct mail.

FloorFound

Series A in 2022
FloorFound is a Resale-as-a-Service company that specializes in managing the returns and resale of large, bulky items for eCommerce retailers. The company offers a comprehensive solution for handling the oversized eCommerce resale process, beginning from the point of return and extending to the resale of products directly to consumers. By facilitating this process, FloorFound aims to help retailers capture unclaimed customer segments and generate additional revenue, thereby promoting participation in the circular economy. Co-founded by Chris Richter and Ryan Matthews, FloorFound is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and provides a platform designed to streamline return management and enhance the value retained by retailers.

Diligent Robotics

Series B in 2022
Diligent Robotics Inc. is a company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in developing and manufacturing hospital service robots. Incorporated in 2017, the company focuses on creating advanced robotic systems that assist clinical and nursing staff with logistical tasks, thereby allowing healthcare providers to dedicate more time to direct patient care. Their flagship product, Moxi, is designed to collaborate with human teams in dynamic environments, utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance its ability to adapt to various situations. By integrating these robotic assistants into healthcare settings, Diligent Robotics aims to improve patient satisfaction, quality of service, and overall safety in hospitals.

First Dollar

Series A in 2022
First Dollar, Inc. provides health saving account (HSA) services through its platform. It also offers health care products and provides health plans, prescriptions, primary care, urgent care, dental, vision, and wellness services. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Steadily

Series A in 2021
Steadily Insurance Agency, Inc. provides insurance services of properties to the landlord. It covers various types of damages, such as fire, water, liability protection, medical, settlement costs, volcanic eruption, explosion, and other coverages. It also provides insurance services online. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Austin, Texas.

BrainCheck

Series B in 2021
BrainCheck, Inc. specializes in cognitive health solutions aimed at healthcare and athletic organizations in the United States. Founded in 2013 and based in Houston, Texas, the company offers BrainCheck, a mobile interactive screening tool available on iOS and Android devices. This tool enables users to monitor their cognitive health, particularly concerning issues like concussions and memory changes, by tracking performance over time and comparing results with general population data. The development of BrainCheck is grounded in two decades of research from the Eagleman Laboratory for Perception and Action at Baylor College of Medicine, led by Dr. David Eagleman. The platform encourages users to engage in meaningful discussions with their clinicians regarding their cognitive health, thereby facilitating informed decision-making. Through its innovative approach, BrainCheck aims to enhance understanding of brain function and empower individuals with actionable data.

UpEquity

Series B in 2021
UpEquity is a technology-driven mortgage platform based in Austin, Texas, that aims to enhance the home buying experience. Founded in 2019 by Tim Herman and Louis Wilson during their time at Harvard Business School, UpEquity focuses on simplifying the mortgage and refinance processes for borrowers. The company's online portal allows users to easily upload documents for pre-approval, streamlining the overall experience. By reinventing traditional mortgage practices, UpEquity seeks to create a more favorable economic landscape for homebuyers, making the process quicker and more efficient.

Osano

Series A in 2021
Osano, Inc. is a Public Benefit Corporation based in Austin, Texas, that operates a data privacy platform designed to assist companies in achieving compliance with data privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. Founded in 2018, Osano provides a range of services including consent management, data subject rights management, vendor risk monitoring, and alerts for policy changes and privacy law updates. The platform evaluates the privacy practices of over 10,000 vendors using a proprietary framework aligned with NIST and ISO privacy standards. Additionally, Osano offers a tracking API for personally identifiable information (PII) and access to a team of privacy experts, ensuring that businesses can effectively manage their data sharing and privacy obligations.

Eterneva

Series A in 2021
Eterneva, Inc. is a company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in transforming cremated remains of humans and pets into memorial diamonds. Founded in 2016, Eterneva offers a personalized service that allows grieving families to create lasting memories of their loved ones through customized diamonds available in various weights, colors, and cuts. The process includes several stages, such as carbon purification, diamond growth, quality assessment, cutting, grading, and engraving, followed by setting the diamond into jewelry. Recognized for its consumer technology and grief wellness offerings, Eterneva aims to provide compassionate support and transparency throughout the experience, ensuring that each memorial diamond honors the memory of the deceased.

Upgrade Boutique

Seed Round in 2021
Upgrade Boutique is a managed marketplace that provides beauty products and services. The company connects with consumers that seek custom wigs, extensions, and curated beauty products with a network of stylists and colorists. Upgrade Boutique was founded in 2019 by Britney Winters and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

CrowdHealth

Venture Round in 2021
CrowdHealth is an anti-health insurance company creating a low cost, easy to use, tech enabled alternative.

FloorFound

Seed Round in 2021
FloorFound is a Resale-as-a-Service company that specializes in managing the returns and resale of large, bulky items for eCommerce retailers. The company offers a comprehensive solution for handling the oversized eCommerce resale process, beginning from the point of return and extending to the resale of products directly to consumers. By facilitating this process, FloorFound aims to help retailers capture unclaimed customer segments and generate additional revenue, thereby promoting participation in the circular economy. Co-founded by Chris Richter and Ryan Matthews, FloorFound is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and provides a platform designed to streamline return management and enhance the value retained by retailers.

UpEquity

Series A in 2021
UpEquity is a technology-driven mortgage platform based in Austin, Texas, that aims to enhance the home buying experience. Founded in 2019 by Tim Herman and Louis Wilson during their time at Harvard Business School, UpEquity focuses on simplifying the mortgage and refinance processes for borrowers. The company's online portal allows users to easily upload documents for pre-approval, streamlining the overall experience. By reinventing traditional mortgage practices, UpEquity seeks to create a more favorable economic landscape for homebuyers, making the process quicker and more efficient.

Kronologic

Seed Round in 2020
Kronologic, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing customer lead management software. Based in Austin, Texas, it was founded in 2016 and offers an AI-powered active scheduling platform designed to facilitate efficient meeting setup between sales representatives and potential clients. This platform addresses significant challenges in the B2B lead generation process, where a substantial amount of resources is spent on generating leads but often suffers from long response times and inadequate follow-up. Kronologic's software ensures that companies achieve a 100% email follow-up rate and can schedule meetings within 60 seconds, effectively maximizing opportunities and minimizing missed connections with potential customers.

EverlyWell

Series D in 2020
EverlyWell develops do-it-yourself kits for a vast range of at-home regulatory-compliant diagnostic tests including food sensitivity, fertility, hormones, STDs, thyroid, and metabolism among the others, allowing users to perform tests at home and receive physician-reviewed results and insights on their mobile devices. EverlyWell also provides at-home covid testing.

Steadily

Seed Round in 2020
Steadily Insurance Agency, Inc. provides insurance services of properties to the landlord. It covers various types of damages, such as fire, water, liability protection, medical, settlement costs, volcanic eruption, explosion, and other coverages. It also provides insurance services online. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Hip eCommerce

Series A in 2020
Hip eCommerce manages and develops online marketplaces for collectibles, including stamps, postcards, and comic books. The company's mission is to re-imagine eCommerce for collectibles - by building collectible specific communities where buyers and sellers can connect with each other, share their passion, and grow their hobby. With a vision to work together with collectors in revolutionizing every collectibles market - while bringing them into the 21st century and beyond. They also offer a wide range of Seller Services and tools to help sellers of collectibles reach a wider audience, and increase their monthly sales each month.

ICON

Series A in 2020
ICON is an advanced construction technologies company using 3D printing robotics, software and advanced materials to shift the paradigm of homebuilding for all of humanity.

Ceresa

Seed Round in 2020
Ceresa is a leadership development program combining structured curriculum, executive coaching, and high-impact, external mentorship, delivered virtually via an easy-to-use platform. Anna Robinson and Nicole Tanzillo formed the company in Austin, Texas in 2018.

Eterneva

Seed Round in 2020
Eterneva, Inc. is a company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in transforming cremated remains of humans and pets into memorial diamonds. Founded in 2016, Eterneva offers a personalized service that allows grieving families to create lasting memories of their loved ones through customized diamonds available in various weights, colors, and cuts. The process includes several stages, such as carbon purification, diamond growth, quality assessment, cutting, grading, and engraving, followed by setting the diamond into jewelry. Recognized for its consumer technology and grief wellness offerings, Eterneva aims to provide compassionate support and transparency throughout the experience, ensuring that each memorial diamond honors the memory of the deceased.

Kronologic

Seed Round in 2020
Kronologic, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing customer lead management software. Based in Austin, Texas, it was founded in 2016 and offers an AI-powered active scheduling platform designed to facilitate efficient meeting setup between sales representatives and potential clients. This platform addresses significant challenges in the B2B lead generation process, where a substantial amount of resources is spent on generating leads but often suffers from long response times and inadequate follow-up. Kronologic's software ensures that companies achieve a 100% email follow-up rate and can schedule meetings within 60 seconds, effectively maximizing opportunities and minimizing missed connections with potential customers.

First Dollar

Seed Round in 2020
First Dollar, Inc. provides health saving account (HSA) services through its platform. It also offers health care products and provides health plans, prescriptions, primary care, urgent care, dental, vision, and wellness services. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Diligent Robotics

Series A in 2020
Diligent Robotics Inc. is a company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in developing and manufacturing hospital service robots. Incorporated in 2017, the company focuses on creating advanced robotic systems that assist clinical and nursing staff with logistical tasks, thereby allowing healthcare providers to dedicate more time to direct patient care. Their flagship product, Moxi, is designed to collaborate with human teams in dynamic environments, utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance its ability to adapt to various situations. By integrating these robotic assistants into healthcare settings, Diligent Robotics aims to improve patient satisfaction, quality of service, and overall safety in hospitals.

Stoplight

Series A in 2020
StopLight is an online platform that helps developers build, test, and improve their web APIs. The company is an API Design Management Platform powering the world's leading API first companies. Developing good design-first practices will minimize future costs, speed up the time to market and lead to more consistent, higher quality microservice, and IoT applications. It was launched in August 2014 and is based in Austin, Texas, United States.

Osano

Series A in 2019
Osano, Inc. is a Public Benefit Corporation based in Austin, Texas, that operates a data privacy platform designed to assist companies in achieving compliance with data privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. Founded in 2018, Osano provides a range of services including consent management, data subject rights management, vendor risk monitoring, and alerts for policy changes and privacy law updates. The platform evaluates the privacy practices of over 10,000 vendors using a proprietary framework aligned with NIST and ISO privacy standards. Additionally, Osano offers a tracking API for personally identifiable information (PII) and access to a team of privacy experts, ensuring that businesses can effectively manage their data sharing and privacy obligations.

LeanDNA

Series B in 2019
LeanDNA is an analytics platform that enables manufacturers to optimize inventory, avoid shortages, and improve on-time delivery. Leveraging predictive analytics and prescriptive AI to power actionable, automated recommendations, the LeanDNA platform promotes real-time collaboration and standardization across systems, suppliers and sites, unlocking working capital for the business. Its cloud-based predictive analytics and decision support software allows teams across the organization to work together in real time to hit inventory reduction goals. LeanDNA was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Tenfold

Series C in 2019
Tenfold helps companies have better customer conversations by putting the customer information into action on the phone in real-time. The company's software enables businesses to have better customer conversations. Its intelligent integrated desktop agent amplifies good customer engagement technology. Tenfold brings together the power of voice and intelligence of CRM for better customer conversations.

Diligent Robotics

Seed Round in 2019
Diligent Robotics Inc. is a company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in developing and manufacturing hospital service robots. Incorporated in 2017, the company focuses on creating advanced robotic systems that assist clinical and nursing staff with logistical tasks, thereby allowing healthcare providers to dedicate more time to direct patient care. Their flagship product, Moxi, is designed to collaborate with human teams in dynamic environments, utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance its ability to adapt to various situations. By integrating these robotic assistants into healthcare settings, Diligent Robotics aims to improve patient satisfaction, quality of service, and overall safety in hospitals.

TrustRadius

Series C in 2019
TrustRadius is a provider of an online review site used to offer business technology and software reviews. Its platform provides a one-stop-shop for user reviews for marketing, HR management, project management, SEO tools, and CRM software among the other categories that enable buyers to make better product selection, implementation, and usage decisions as well as vendors to access the authentic voice of their customers across their sales and marketing channels and improve their product. TrustRadius was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Phlur

Series A in 2019
PHLUR is a provider of an inaugural line of unisex fragrances designed to make fragrances that smell as accurate as of its ingredients. The company's fragrances offer a unique balance of premium ingredients and environmentally responsible practices, enabling users to purchase better quality colognes and perfumes online or from its retail store at a reasonable price.

EverlyWell

Venture Round in 2019
EverlyWell develops do-it-yourself kits for a vast range of at-home regulatory-compliant diagnostic tests including food sensitivity, fertility, hormones, STDs, thyroid, and metabolism among the others, allowing users to perform tests at home and receive physician-reviewed results and insights on their mobile devices. EverlyWell also provides at-home covid testing.

Osano

Seed Round in 2019
Osano, Inc. is a Public Benefit Corporation based in Austin, Texas, that operates a data privacy platform designed to assist companies in achieving compliance with data privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. Founded in 2018, Osano provides a range of services including consent management, data subject rights management, vendor risk monitoring, and alerts for policy changes and privacy law updates. The platform evaluates the privacy practices of over 10,000 vendors using a proprietary framework aligned with NIST and ISO privacy standards. Additionally, Osano offers a tracking API for personally identifiable information (PII) and access to a team of privacy experts, ensuring that businesses can effectively manage their data sharing and privacy obligations.

Tenfold

Series B in 2018
Tenfold helps companies have better customer conversations by putting the customer information into action on the phone in real-time. The company's software enables businesses to have better customer conversations. Its intelligent integrated desktop agent amplifies good customer engagement technology. Tenfold brings together the power of voice and intelligence of CRM for better customer conversations.

Stoplight

Seed Round in 2018
StopLight is an online platform that helps developers build, test, and improve their web APIs. The company is an API Design Management Platform powering the world's leading API first companies. Developing good design-first practices will minimize future costs, speed up the time to market and lead to more consistent, higher quality microservice, and IoT applications. It was launched in August 2014 and is based in Austin, Texas, United States.

Swivel

Seed Round in 2018
Swivel, Inc. operates a platform that offers on-demand workspace solutions for businesses of all sizes. Founded in 2016 and based in Austin, Texas, the company collaborates with commercial real estate firms to create a network of private workspaces tailored to the collaborative needs of teams. This online service enables fast-growing companies to easily find and customize flexible workspace options that adapt to changing office requirements. By providing agile leasing arrangements, Swivel allows member companies to secure the appropriate amount of space as needed, giving them greater control over their office expenses compared to traditional leasing methods.

101 Commerce

Series A in 2018
101 Commerce, Inc. is an e-commerce platform based in Austin, Texas, specializing in the acquisition, launch, and growth of micro-brands. Established in 2018 by Richard Jalichandra, the company focuses on building private label brands across various product categories. It leverages Amazon's Fulfilled by Amazon (FBA) platform to allow these brands to concentrate on product design, brand development, and customer service. By employing technology, supply-chain efficiencies, and data-driven marketing strategies, 101 Commerce addresses the challenges faced by niche e-commerce businesses. This approach not only enhances operational efficiency but also facilitates the global expansion of the brands under its management.

Dosh

Series A in 2018
Dosh is a fast growing cash back card-linked ecosystem that drives in-store sales through contextually relevant offers. Brands utilize Dosh’s real-time behavioral and transactional data to convert new customers, increase frequency, and average order value – tracking marketing dollars to every transaction and bench marking performance against competition. By shifting advertising dollars directly to consumers through Dosh, brands are proven to drive sales and positive brand propagation.

Umuse

Seed Round in 2018
Umuse is a stealth mode startup that try to bring order to the chaos that has become workplace communication. Communication at work. Remember when it was easy? Just a couple of meetings every day, maybe a few messages. Now … it’s gotten out of control. Multiple meetings, dozens of projects, and hundreds of messages every day. How are you supposed to keep up? At Umuse, they’re on a mission to tame the chaos and give you back control. They’re leveraging technology to put order back in your day and help you get more done and have more fun in the process. Their ultimate goal - to make it simpler and easier for you to do your job every day.

Diligent Robotics

Seed Round in 2018
Diligent Robotics Inc. is a company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in developing and manufacturing hospital service robots. Incorporated in 2017, the company focuses on creating advanced robotic systems that assist clinical and nursing staff with logistical tasks, thereby allowing healthcare providers to dedicate more time to direct patient care. Their flagship product, Moxi, is designed to collaborate with human teams in dynamic environments, utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance its ability to adapt to various situations. By integrating these robotic assistants into healthcare settings, Diligent Robotics aims to improve patient satisfaction, quality of service, and overall safety in hospitals.

Vertalo

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Vertalo is an investor onboarding, cap table, and compliance platform that connects issuers and investors directly to sources of secondary liquidity. Working directly with issuers, or through our growing network of broker-dealers, Vertalo enables any asset to be tokenized, stored in a blockchain wallet, and traded in real-time based on the smart contract between the issuer and the investor.

Dosh

Seed Round in 2017
Dosh is a fast growing cash back card-linked ecosystem that drives in-store sales through contextually relevant offers. Brands utilize Dosh’s real-time behavioral and transactional data to convert new customers, increase frequency, and average order value – tracking marketing dollars to every transaction and bench marking performance against competition. By shifting advertising dollars directly to consumers through Dosh, brands are proven to drive sales and positive brand propagation.

ScaleFactor

Seed Round in 2017
ScaleFactor provides accounting and finance software with automated bookkeeping, proactive alerts, and other features. It is a smart accounting and finance software that changes the way modern businesses operate. By automating complex accounting tasks and translating financial information into usable business insights, ScaleFactor is enabling business owners, managers, and entrepreneurs to focus on what they love: running and growing their business. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Phlur

Venture Round in 2017
PHLUR is a provider of an inaugural line of unisex fragrances designed to make fragrances that smell as accurate as of its ingredients. The company's fragrances offer a unique balance of premium ingredients and environmentally responsible practices, enabling users to purchase better quality colognes and perfumes online or from its retail store at a reasonable price.

LeanDNA

Series A in 2017
LeanDNA is an analytics platform that enables manufacturers to optimize inventory, avoid shortages, and improve on-time delivery. Leveraging predictive analytics and prescriptive AI to power actionable, automated recommendations, the LeanDNA platform promotes real-time collaboration and standardization across systems, suppliers and sites, unlocking working capital for the business. Its cloud-based predictive analytics and decision support software allows teams across the organization to work together in real time to hit inventory reduction goals. LeanDNA was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Phlur

Debt Financing in 2016
PHLUR is a provider of an inaugural line of unisex fragrances designed to make fragrances that smell as accurate as of its ingredients. The company's fragrances offer a unique balance of premium ingredients and environmentally responsible practices, enabling users to purchase better quality colognes and perfumes online or from its retail store at a reasonable price.