High-conviction, hands-on seed investors. Championing founders who are redesigning the Everyday Economy.
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Congrats to @Tristarai on its $12.4M Series A, which we were honored to be a part of 🥳
Co-founder & CEO @KaraniSalem grew up on his dad’s plastics factory floor, then learned computer vision to catch the defects that slip through.
Today Tristar runs on 500+ production lines.
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Why did we bet on Salem at pre-seed? Authenticity is experience.
His dad slept at the factory for 30 years so he’d be there when something broke. Salem is building the tech so the next generation of plant owners won’t have to.
More from NextView Partner @davidbeisel 👇
nextview.vc/blog/why-we-at-n…
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We at NextView have been proud to back Team Tristar from the very first round, and we’re just as excited to do it again today.
Sky’s the limit (the defect rate, not so much) 🚀
More from @axios here: axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026…
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Awesome to watch the CoRL keynote by Walden Robotics co-founder/CEO Russ Tedrake. It's an exciting time in robotics and exciting to see this team at the forefront of both deployment and model research.
@RussTedrake @WaldenRobotics @NextViewVC
At CoRL, @RussTedrake shared the work behind LBM 2.0: Sage and what we’re learning from deploying robots in factories.
Watch the keynote: youtube.com/live/uPXoJm-L3YY…
More technical detail in the blog: waldenrobotics.com/news/lbm-…
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Introducing Steve: the World’s first AI CEO for fully Autonomous companies.
Powered by World Models, Recursive Self Learning, a Policy Engine and a team of specialist AI agents, it runs your business end-to-end 🔥.
Proof? Steve currently runs 3 businesses we acquired and they are all crushing it (numbers in thread 🧵)
We’re now launching the Steve Startups Program of $2M to acquire 5 additional startups for Steve to automate.
Join us in the Autonomous Enterprise revolution 🚀.
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Great interview of @willahmed on WHOOP’s plans ahead in health data and more. From the All In podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
We were early backers and proud supporters of @boxerbk and Chris at @ParsecTeam (acquired by Unity for $320M). So much so that the whole Parsec investor crew is running it back ♻️
NextView Partner @davidbeisel on why we invested again:
nextview.vc/blog/why-we-at-n…
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More on the round from @axios here: axios.com/pro/enterprise-sof…
The sky’s the limit... well, the cloud’s the limit ☁️
Go @Phaze_in 🚀
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Today we’re announcing an $8.75M seed round for Phaze.
Companies aren’t ready for how many computers people and AI agents are about to need. And it’s happening just as computer prices are up 3x.
Chris and I spent years building Parsec to make a computer thousands of miles away feel like it’s sitting right in front of you. We sold that company, and we’re starting over because people aren’t the only users of computers anymore.
Now, agents need access to real computers to run applications, test software, and get work done. They need to work alongside people, hand off control when necessary, and operate within the security policies companies already have in place. And companies need to start managing computers like infrastructure.
That’s why we’re building @Phaze_in: secure, high-performance access to computers, wherever those machines happen to be.
An engineer can connect to a CAD workstation from any device and forget about being physically stuck at that workstation. A video editor can ask an AI agent to connect to a render machine to monitor and fix broken renders. An IT support person can fix multiple machines at the same time with an AI agent connecting to employees’ computers. If the agent needs help, it can hand control back to the technician in the same session.
We loved working with the firms who backed Parsec, so we’re running it back. Our Seed round is led by @martin_casado at @a16z, with @bryce at @indievc, @davidbeisel at @NextViewVC, @BenjLerer at @LererHippeau, and @Ryann_Lai at @makersfundvc.
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Today we’re announcing an $8.75M seed round for Phaze.
Companies aren’t ready for how many computers people and AI agents are about to need. And it’s happening just as computer prices are up 3x.
Chris and I spent years building Parsec to make a computer thousands of miles away feel like it’s sitting right in front of you. We sold that company, and we’re starting over because people aren’t the only users of computers anymore.
Now, agents need access to real computers to run applications, test software, and get work done. They need to work alongside people, hand off control when necessary, and operate within the security policies companies already have in place. And companies need to start managing computers like infrastructure.
That’s why we’re building @Phaze_in: secure, high-performance access to computers, wherever those machines happen to be.
An engineer can connect to a CAD workstation from any device and forget about being physically stuck at that workstation. A video editor can ask an AI agent to connect to a render machine to monitor and fix broken renders. An IT support person can fix multiple machines at the same time with an AI agent connecting to employees’ computers. If the agent needs help, it can hand control back to the technician in the same session.
We loved working with the firms who backed Parsec, so we’re running it back. Our Seed round is led by @martin_casado at @a16z, with @bryce at @indievc, @davidbeisel at @NextViewVC, @BenjLerer at @LererHippeau, and @Ryann_Lai at @makersfundvc.
Three NextView partners, three takes on what you miss when you only look where you’re used to looking.
Here’s our NextView Month in Review 🗞️🧵👇
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➗ The Denominator
An agent broke a rule, and NextView Partner @melodykoh only found out when another session owned up weeks later. No one knows how often agents stay quiet, so products have to earn trust when you connect something & when the agent acts
melodykoh.substack.com/p/the…
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✉️ No Introduction Necessary
For most VCs, a real look still depends on who introduces you. NextView Partner @davidbeisel on how AI can read a founder’s public record before any kind of intro, and whether VCs will write the check with no one vouching
carriedawayvc.substack.com/p…
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What a night in Harvard Square 🍻
Thanks to everyone who joined our annual MBA Founders & Innovators Night. Great conversation with NextView Partners @robgo + @davidbeisel on where seed VC is headed, how AI is reshaping venture, and what it takes to build a company (or a firm).
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Our newest portfolio company @rdvrobotics just raised a $20M Seed and we are FIRED UP 🛰️
Their spacecraft launch as a flat stack of tiles that self-assemble in orbit, "so we can finally start building the satellites we need, not the ones that fit into rockets." - @joe_landon
It’s also our first space investment, backing an incredible founder (@joe_landon), whom NextView Partner @robgo has known since they were business school section-mates in 2005 🎓
Congrats to the @rdvrobotics team 🚀
More from Rob on why we're in here: nextview.vc/blog/announcing-…
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And more on the round and the company from @payloadspace here: payloadspace.com/exclusive-r…
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Excited to announce our latest investment in @rdvrobotics. It's a new space for us (pun intended) but backing an entrepreneur we've known for over 20 years. So excited to finally partner with @joe_landon
payloadspace.com/exclusive-r…