Next Play Ventures

Esusu

New York

Esusu is the nation’s leading financial technology platform advancing credit building and economic mobility.

Seesaw

San Francisco

Trusted by 25 million educators, students, and families worldwide, Seesaw is your LMS with AI built in. Our award-winning platform combines digital portfolios, assessments, feedback, high-quality content, admin tools, and messaging, all in one simple place. Seesaw delivers joyful, accessible instruction with interactive lessons and two-way communication that give families and teachers continuous visibility into each student’s growth.

BRINC

Seattle

BRINC Drones develops technology that enhances public safety, focusing on hardware, software, and services for emergency responders.

TestGorilla

Amsterdam

Source, screen, and shortlist any candidate with 350+ science‑backed tests, video interviews, AI scoring, and more.

Gather

Canada

Gather builds virtual offices that bring in-person collaboration to remote teams. Used by over 10,000 companies daily and 100,000 weekly users, it serves a diverse client base, including Home Depot and Coinbase, and analyzes data on work pr

Warp

New York

Warp is an automated back-office platform for startups and the Agentic Development Environment for coding with multiple agents, enabling startup operations and agent-based development workflows.

Common Room

Washington

Common Room provides targeting and engagement tools for go-to-market teams, transforming how organizations connect with people. Founded in 2020 in Seattle, it has raised $50M from Greylock, Index Ventures, and Madrona and serves thousands o

Brilliant

San Francisco

Brilliant helps people learn quantitative and technical skills (math, data, CS/AI) to become better problem solvers, serving hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers with ambitions to reach millions, backed by top-tier investors and pursui

BrightHire

America

BrightHire transforms the hiring experience and pioneered the Interview Intelligence category, serving Fortune 100 clients—including Canva, Zapier, and HCA Healthcare—across industries.

Humaans

London

Humaans provides HR technology for globally distributed organizations with distributed workforces.

Hatch

New York

Hatch builds an SMS business messaging platform for small, medium, and enterprise brick-and-mortar businesses, enabling both customer communications and internal team messaging to streamline operations.