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    NextGen Venture Partners

    Baltimore, Maryland, United StatesFounded 2012

    NextGen Venture Partners is a network-driven venture capital firm that invests $500K–$2M in seed-stage B2B startups, leveraging its 'VP Engine' platform of over 1,800 Venture Partners to provide capital and strategic support across sectors including SaaS, fintech, healthcare, and robotics.

    They made 2 investments in the last 12 months. Average disclosed round size is $28.7M (across 53 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    49

    Fund Size

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    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    2

    Team

    Ben Bayat

    Ben Bayat

    Managing Partner

    Chris Keller

    Chris Keller

    Managing Partner

    Jon Bassett

    Jon Bassett

    Managing Partner

    Corinne Smeriglio

    Corinne Smeriglio

    Director of Operations

    Deborah Chu

    Deborah Chu

    Principal

    Maxim Karoubi

    Maxim Karoubi

    Investment Associate

    Riley Finch

    Riley Finch

    Investment Associate

    Katie Willging

    Katie Willging

    Senior Alternative Investments Analyst

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    67 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Shanx MedTech logoShanx MedTechSeed—Jan 2026
    Fourier logoFourierSeed$8.4MOct 2025
    Statt logoStattSeed$2.8MSep 2024
    RunSafe Security logoRunSafe SecuritySeries B$12MSep 2024
    Momo Medical logoMomo MedicalUnknown—Jan 2024
    SSea Machines RoboticsUnknown$12MJan 2024
    IIzumi FinanceUnknown$22MApr 2023
    ClearStreet logoClearStreetSeries B$270MApr 2023
    Clear Street logoClear StreetSeries B$270MApr 2023
    GovForce logoGovForceSeed$2.5MFeb 2023
    Beaming Health logoBeaming HealthPre-Seed—Feb 2023
    Frontrow Health logoFrontrow HealthSeed—Feb 2023
    IIzumi FinanceUnknown$22MJan 2023
    Clear Street logoClear StreetSeries B$270MJan 2023
    Hone logoHoneSeries B$30MSep 2022
    VistaPath logoVistaPathSeed$4MJun 2022
    Clear Street logoClear StreetSeries B—May 2022
    Equo logoEquoSeed$1.3MApr 2022
    Architect.io logoArchitect.ioSeed$5MFeb 2022
    SStentitSeed—Jan 2022
    Clear Street logoClear StreetSeries B$165MJan 2022
    Izumi logoIzumiSeries A$3.5MDec 2021
    Triple Blind logoTriple BlindSeries A$24MOct 2021
    TripleBlind logoTripleBlindSeries A$24MOct 2021
    theCut logotheCutSeed$4.5MSep 2021
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    Last updated: 20 October 2026