Next Coast Ventures

We walk alongside our portfolio founders

The Future of Digital Healthcare

Julia Cheek, Founder of EverlyHealth, joined the Next Coast family when raising a Series A in 2017 Since the early days, Next Coast Co-Founder, Mike Smerklo, has sat on the board and played an active role mentoring Julia as the company has grown from a groundbreaking idea into a company that is redefining the future of digital healthcare We are proud to be part of the story!

Redefining “The Future of Wine”

Sarah Puil, Founder and CEO of BOXT was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Next Coast Ventures in 2019 before launching her direct-to-consumer wine company, BOXT She sat alongside our Co-Founder, Mike, in the Next Coast offices and perfected her business idea before launching the business in late 2019 Since that time her team has been defining the “future of wine” customer by customer and we are thrilled to be part of the journey!

And those stories are just the tip of the iceberg

The Next Coast Way

Our thematic research provides a data-driven approach to partnering with glass-eating entrepreneurs and category winners

First, we choose our investing themes (sectors are overrated)

Then, we partner with glass-eating entrepreneurs operating within those themes

Finally, we use our experienced resources to send their companies into hyper-growth

We thrive in the "make or break” stage of the journey

We’ve been entrepreneurs and have journeyed through the crucial stage of the journey Taking from our own experiences, we created our dream list of resources for founders to hit that first goal

then the next goal, then the next goal It’s everything we wish we’d had known when building our companies

“Roll Up Your Sleeves” Help

Our founders work side-by-side with the Next Coast Partners who were all successful operators before entering venture capital The partners share pragmatic advice from personal experience versus just patterns they have recognized from their portfolio of companies

Our founders are granted access to an expert network of 150+ individuals who are currently running companies or have successfully run companies

Our partners developed specific plays with the goal of providing real results for our portfolio companies, from KPI development for product/market fit to recruiting and succession strategies

Dedicated Next Coast Team Member

The Head of Platform is a partner-level role at our firm solely dedicated to solving mission critical initiatives for our founders In other words, we want to make sure our founders are always taken care of The Head of Platform is here to ensure Next Coast Ventures is doing all we can to support our portfolio founders and their operations as they scale

We founded Next Coast because we want to share the winning strategies that we learned when we were building our ventures Our goal is to help founders cut down on the learning curve of launching a business and not repeat the mistakes we’ve already army-crawled our way through Leveraging our extensive experience as both operators and investors, we really are “built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs ”