NextRound Capital

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VCMatch tracks NextRound Capital as an investor focused on AI/ML, Data Infrastructure, and Cloud Infrastructure companies, Growth and Late Stage rounds, and United States and Global markets. Upload your deck to compare your startup against the full private matching profile.

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Not specified

Stages

Growth, Late Stage

Focus Areas

AI/ML, Data Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastructure

Geography

United States and global

Investment Thesis

Next Round Capital’s investment philosophy centers on unlocking and facilitating liquidity in private, venture-backed companies—bringing “hard-to-access” pre-IPO opportunities to institutional and accredited investors while enabling employees and early shareholders to realize value. The firm positions itself as a partner to founders and management teams, emphasizing tailored secondary-market solutions and cap-table management to keep companies private longer and align shareholder interests with growth.

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Investment Focus

Who should take a closer look

NextRound Capital is most relevant for founders raising Growth and Late Stage rounds in AI/ML, Data Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastructure, and Enterprise SaaS, especially across United States and global.

Focus statement

Next Round focuses on growth technology and VC secondaries—sourcing and structuring direct secondary transactions, co-investments and SPV-based access to high-quality private companies in sectors like AI infrastructure, defense tech, robotics and space.

Value Add

Proven secondary execution track record: "$ 2 B+ In Transactions" and "close over $2bln+ in private share deals" (site cites >$2B in private share deals).
Specialization in liquidity solutions and cap-table services: offers "Cap Table Management, Employee Liquidity, Price Discovery" and structures tender offers and share-backed lending.
Institutional relationships and real-time market capabilities: "long-term relationships with the most active venture backed direct secondary buyers and sellers" and "offering real-time market pricing" for updated valuations.
Sector-focused sourcing and research: active content and deal interest in AI infrastructure, defense tech, robotics and space (multiple blog posts on these sectors drive deal focus).
Experienced leadership in secondaries and institutional trading: founders and partners have backgrounds at Nasdaq Private Market, BlackRock, BNY Mellon, Linqto and other institutional firms—supporting execution across buy- and sell-sides.
Flexible investor access: provides accredited investors access "directly or through SPV’s", and offers scalable direct transactions and creative co-investment opportunities.