Next Play Ventures

Figma is a powerful, collaborative design tool for teams that allows users to brainstorm, design, and build products together in real-time.

Media kits are professional documents showcasing brand assets; Notion offers various templates for creating them.

Slack is a collaboration hub that connects your work with the people you work with. It offers a suite of productivity tools including messaging, project management, and integrations with other applications, all designed to streamline communication and enhance team collaboration.

Brex is a financial technology company that provides modern finance software solutions including cards, banking, expenses, and accounting, designed for startups and growing businesses.

Esusu is a financial technology company focused on building credit and financial inclusion for renters, allowing them to report their rent payments to credit bureaus and access various financial tools.

Bicycle Health is the largest medical group in the U.S. providing Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) treatment via telemedicine, combining clinical care, therapy, and peer support.

Brilliant offers interactive problem-solving courses in math, computer science, and data analysis, designed to make learning engaging and effective.

The Browser Company develops innovative web browsers, including Arc, aimed at enhancing internet use and prioritizing security. With a focus on creating a more personal and creative browsing experience, they are reimagining the web browser as a foundational tool for work and life online.

Speak is a language learning app that utilizes an AI-powered tutor to help users practice speaking and achieve fluency in various languages. The app focuses on conversational practice, providing instant feedback and personalized learning experiences.

Warp is an AI and tech-driven transportation innovation company that helps transportation leaders design and deploy freight strategies combining FTL, LTL, and parcel for their networks.

Headspace is a leading mental health company offering meditation, mindfulness, therapy, and psychiatry services. It provides comprehensive mental health care for individuals and organizations.

Seed-stage investors founded by former YouTube and Twitter product leaders who invest their own money, take concentrated board-level positions, offer transparent communication, and back Chime, Plaid, and Gusto.

Applies a 12-dimension investment rubric to invest in Black, Latino, and underrepresented-focused founders, wraps portfolio companies with curated senior-operator networks, and directs 50% of profits to community foundations.

Seed-stage investor focused on tech startups led by underrepresented founders, offering a service-heavy, transparent model, dual DC/Little Rock presence to access noncoastal markets, and a structured domain-expert advisor bench.

Connects founders to 200+ senior operator LPs (90% women, 40% people of color) who actively source deals, conduct diligence, and support portfolio companies, with 75-70% first-time venture investors.

EO Ventures is founded and led by an unusual pairing of top-tier venture capitalist Bill Helman with controversial Harvard economist Roland Fryer, explicitly structured as a real-world experiment in whether capitalism can be harnessed to improve income mobility in the U.S. The fund uses Fryer's proprietary 'Social Money Multiplier' framework to quantitatively estimate and track the social mobility impact of each investment, requiring portfolio companies to set targets and report against this metric alongside standard business KPIs.