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Come Join Our Investment Team in NYC!

View from Seed

Since we first opened our New York office back in 2015, we have steadily increased our presence over the years. With the news of our most recent $100M fund , NextView is looking to add a new member of our investment team based in New York. If you or someone that you know might be a great fit for this role, please apply here.

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What’s FinTech, And What Does It Mean For Your Business?

YoungUpstarts

in investments in 2015, $15.2B FinTech had started to grow popular soon after global financial crisis happened, fueled by public’s distrust of banks and incumbent legacy firms, and then exploded in 2015. Others narrow down its meaning to just startups that aim to disrupt incumbent financial systems. The industry reached $15.5B

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

Both Sides of the Table

With Things Going So Well for Seed Funds the Winds Shifted in 2015 Seed investors had a good run and all seemed rosy and then in 2015 the momentum seemed to shift. thus the rise of “pre seed” investing). It’s very noticeable in terms of funds raised, dollars invested and deals completed.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 In 2015, the 10 largest shareholders in a typical S&P 500 company held almost half of the company’s stock.) During Jeff Immelt’s tenure GE’s stock-market value fell by about half. Its stock is trading where it was 20 years ago. billion of GE stock – about 1.5%

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We’re Hiring for Our Investment Team at NextView’s NYC Office

View from Seed

Since we first opened our New York office back in 2015, we have steadily increased our presence over the years ( Melody joined us in 2017 and Dorothy in 2018), and now roughly 40% of our investments are in New York.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Steve Blank

Cold War in Space: Top Secret Reconnaissance Satellites Revealed ” National Museum of the United States Air Force, June 02, 2015. Maddie Davis, “ The Space Race ” University of Virginia – The Miller Center, 2021. Space as a Domain. Lt Gen David “D. Thompson, “ Space as a War-Fighting Domain ” Air & Space Power Journal, Summer 2018.

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Chewy S-1: Category Leadership + Conveyor Belt Into Consumers’ Homes

View from Seed

For example, Chewy’s 2015 cohort (e.g. customers who made their initial purchase in 2015) generated 165% of initial cohort revenue in 2018. spent by new customers in 2015, that same group (in aggregate) bought $1.65 In other words, for every $1.00 worth of goods from Chewy in 2018.