Next Play Ventures
Next Play Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, CA investing in Other, SaaS. The firm typically writes $250K–$2.0M checks and has 15 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$2.0M
- Portfolio
- 15 companies on record
- Partners
- 2 listed
- AUM
- $100M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, SaaS
- HQ
- Menlo Park, CA
Last verified: 2026-05-30
Pre-Seed, Seed
$250K – $2.0M
$100M
15+ companies
2 partners
Investment Thesis
Early-stage investor in future-of-work and enterprise software, often backing systems that improve team performance.
How Next Play Ventures invests
Next Play Ventures is a vc firm based in Menlo Park, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, SaaS.
Next Play Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$2.0M per investment, backed by approximately $100M in assets under management.
Next Play Ventures has backed 15 companies in our records, including Humu, Lattice, Culture Amp.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (15)
Other
Humu
Lattice
Culture Amp
Figma
Common Room
Westbound Equity
Brilliant
Esusu
Entire
Cloaked
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $2.0M check.
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Brian Rumao, Managing Director.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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