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What does NextSTEP invest in?
NextSTEP invests most often at Seed (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Water, Grid and Biodiversity.
NextSTEP highlights
- 01
1 cheques in the last 12 months
- 02
Mostly Seed: 100% of its rounds
What they do
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $50K – $200K as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries A
- Sectors
- WaterGridBiodiversity
- Based in
- Venice, Italy
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first1 appearances
- 2026
1 round
- Oct
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 registration2 named
IBIan BowlesIan Bowles is a Managing Director of the ManageriFiling they signed
MRMichael RandMichael Rand is a Managing Director of the ManageriFiling they signed
We also hold 8 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 they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
7 of 19 we have independently watched raise
AgriskyAlgapelagoAtiumBufagaGanigaLeafrPulpatronicsByewasteChlorisGetswitchGeviwindIotilizeMusthadNextenergycapitalNinaSie-veSnelixTomoveUkri
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.