Next Big Ventures

Next Big Ventures is an investing venture linked to the founders of Next Big Sound, a music data company. The team says it invests in entrepreneurs outside its day-to-day work, sharing what it has learned along the way.

Products and services

• Early-stage investment: backing for young companies that work on making data useful.
• Startup know-how: experience of building a company through two funding rounds and an acquisition.
• Founder experience: lessons drawn from building and selling software to customers, and from raising two rounds of venture capital.

Customers and markets

The firm invites contact from founders of early-stage companies focused on data.

Key facts

• Background: the founders met at Northwestern University and started Next Big Sound in 2008
• Acquisition: Pandora acquired Next Big Sound in July 2015
• Team at Next Big Sound: more than 20 designers, engineers and scientists