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What does Next Coast Ventures invest in?
Next Coast Ventures invests most often at Seed and Series A (68% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Fintech, Media and Health.
Next Coast Ventures highlights
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4 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Series A: 68% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 7 rounds, median $3.0M
What they do
We invest in emerging, 'next coast' companies at the critical stage of development to launch them into hyper-growth.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $100K – $5.0M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- FintechMediaHealth
- Based in
- Austin, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first73 appearances
- 2026
3 rounds
- Feb
- Jan
- Jan
- 2025
11 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Jun
- May
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- 2024
9 rounds
- Nov
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Jul
- Jul
- Jun
- Jan
- 2023
8 rounds
- Aug
- Aug
- Aug
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- Feb
- Jan
- 2022
8 rounds
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- Apr
- Feb
- Feb
- Feb
- Jan
- 2021
7 rounds
- Nov
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration4 named
CTCharles Thomas BallManager of the Upper-Tier GPiFiling they signed
KDKaitlyn DebernardoChief Compliance Officer/ Chief Operating OfficeriForm ADV
MAMichael Arthur SmerkloManaging MemberiForm ADV
MTMike Thomas SmerkloManager of the Upper-Tier GPiFiling they signed
We also hold 21 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$430Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- NEXT Coast Ventures, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 283699
Funds on its Form ADV
9 private funds, $403M in gross assets · filed May 2024
Venture 7Private equity 2
- Next Coast Ventures I, L.P.Venture66 investors$162M
- Next Coast Ventures II, L.P.Venture54 investors$106M
- Next Coast Ventures III, L.P.Venture101 investors$43M
- Next Coast ETA I, L.P.Private equity79 investors$40M
- NCV Select I, L.P.Venture48 investors$29M
- NCV Entrepreneurs Fund I, L.P.Venture56 investors$8.1M
- NCV Entrepreneurs Fund III, L.P.Venture72 investors$7.1M
- NCV Entrepreneurs Fund II, L.P.Venture86 investors$6.4M
- Next Coast ETA Entrepreneurs Fund I, L.P.Private equity13 investors$1.3M
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
48 of 60 we have independently watched raise
AcadeumAceableAclaimantAlertmediaArchitectBraincheckBravaCardlyticsCeresaChargebackCollxDiligentrobotsDomainmoneyDoshDropoffEnboarderEternevaEverlywellFirstdollarFloorfoundGrazzyHipecommerceJudysecurityKronologicLeandnaLomanMarqiiOsanoOutlierPropensityScorabilitySiftSomiteStattSteadilyStoplightStreetsmartsvrSubmittableSwivelTenfoldTinyhealthTrustradiusTunedUpequityUplinqVertaloVirtualzcomputingVitalinteractionAbleArcadeBefakeaiBesthearttestConversifiCopilotsearchCorechainCuvrdDistributeDrinkboxtFrontrowmdGalileohealthand 15 more
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.