NextView Grabs $8M of $25M

NextView Ventures, a Cambridge, MA-based micro VC firm launched last summer, has brought in $8.1 million of a $25 million fundraise, an SEC filing shows. Earlier this year, Greg caught up with NextView partner David Beisel (formerly vice president at Venrock), who discussed the fledgling firm’s crop of advisors, and the group of startups it has invested in, including Swipely, Shareaholic, thredUP, and RentJuice. NextView’s other two co-founders are former Spark Capital principal Rob Go, and Lee Hower, who previously worked at Point Judith Capital.

Author: Erin Kutz

Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.