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What does Next Level Ventures invest in?
Next Level Ventures invests most often at Series A and Venture (80% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Smart Clothes, Fintechs and Business-to-business.
Next Level Ventures highlights
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6 rounds on record
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Mostly Series A and Venture: 80% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 2 rounds, median $2.3M
What they do
Next Level Ventures is an Iowa-based investment firm that manages over $400 million in assets across a portfolio of over 45 companies, and we invest in companies at seed stage, growth stage, and everywhere in between.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $500K – $10M as they say
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- Smart ClothesFintechsBusiness-to-business
- Based in
- Des Moines, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first6 appearances
- 2024
1 round
- Oct
- 2017
1 round
- Jan
- 2015
2 rounds
- Sept
- Apr
- 2014
2 rounds
- Oct
- Jul
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
CICraig Irvin IbsenManaging Principal of General Partner, Next Level Ventures GP V, LLCiFiling they signed
DTDave TuckerManaging Principal of General Partner, Next Level Ventures GP V, LLCiFiling they signed
EKElizabeth KeehnerManaging Principal of General Partner, Next Level Ventures GP V, LLCiFiling they signed
RSRoger ScholtenManaging Principal of General Partner, Next Level Ventures GP V, LLCiFiling they signed
We also hold 12 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
$692Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- NEXT Level Ventures, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 305666
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
30 of 60 we have independently watched raise
AkuvoAlluresecurityBankjoyBlastpointBoweryvaluationCovianceCreditmountainDefensestormDrylandgeneticsDwollaEquipifiFacteusGreenlightHimaxwellIotamotionLoan-streetMazenanimalhealthNeuralpaymentsNymbusOpenloophealthPathwarePatientfiPitchlyPortxPoshRenofiRoboflowSilvurTractorzoomZestAgstartupengineAlgaeAmesedcArcoroBirddoghrBuiltbyhltCertintellEltropyFarmlandfinderGLOBAL REACHGet Adobe Acrobat ReaderGetconnectivityGetdistynctGocaribouIgor-techLetsMachMakusafeMsuitePayrailzProvisioniamPulsatehqTaponitThehummingbirdsVertexvisVidalungViewpointmtWebcarehealthWinpropetWithclutchand 2 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.