Next Wave NYC is on a mission to invest in the most promising pre-seed AI startups in NYC - and we just added a few new key players to the team. We’re wildly excited to announce our newest partners - who are some of the most influential founders, operators & community leaders today in the NYC AI startup scene: • Teddy Solomon, co-founder of Fizz • Chloe Ho, head of startup GTM at Anthropic • Brian Benedict, co-founder of Arcee • Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Hopscotch Labs, Foursquare & Dodgeball • Brett Perlmutter, founder of Bulletpitch • mallory contois, head of growth at Maven & founder of the old girls club They’re joining our existing roster of amazing talent, including Andrew Yeung, Celestine Maddy, Cherae Robinson, Cheryl Campos, Chris Brown, Dave A. Salvant, Hassan W. Bhatti, Julia Cohen, Khaled Kteily, Lindsay Kaplan, Marc Manara, Mike Swift, Rebekah Rombom, Shai Goldman & Songe LaRon. It’s an embarrassment of riches to have these successful founders, operators & community leaders from Chief, NVIDIA, OpenAI & more around the table with us. Together, the team finds, evaluates and supports amazing pre-seed founders. Since we got started last Spring, we’ve made investments in companies like CrewAI, Goodword, Sent, ESAI, Originalis, Superposition, Falcon, InPress and more. We’re going to write another dozen or so pre-seed checks at $50k a piece before next summer. If you’re an AI startup founder raising a pre-seed round, we want to dream about the future with you. Get connected to one of our partners or pitch us cold on our website - https://www.nextwave.nyc/ - and let’s build together!
Next Wave NYC
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
New York, NY 2,749 followers
Builders of Iconic New York Companies backing the next generation of startups.
About us
Next Wave NYC is a pre-seed venture fund run by some of the best and brightest founders and operators from the last decade of the New York City startup scene. Our investment team includes leaders from Bowery Farming, Casper, Chief, Flatiron School, FourSquare, Google, Major League Hacking, OpenAI, Snowflake, Squire, WeWork, and The Wing primed to back the next generation of world-changing founders from this city. Our investment areas currently include Native AI applications, vertical and horizontal AI-powered SaaS applications, and developer platforms. Next Wave NYC is wholly backed by Flybridge Capital.
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http://nextwave.nyc
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- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
- Type
- Partnership
- Founded
- 2024
- Specialties
- venture capital, angel investor, technology, and startup investing
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16 W 23rd St
New York, NY 10010, US