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next ventures investing at the convergence of health and care portfolio team substack investing at the convergence of health and care next ventures is an early stage venture capital firm accelerating the shift to an intelligent interconnected future of health select portfolio go to portfolio better care lower premiums for small businesses accelerating the creation and delivery of new medicines smart ring for fitness stress sleep health clinical intelligence platform for oncology ai native platform for pharma commercialization intelligent pharmacy benefit navigation team lance armstrong general partner lance armstrong general partner developer tools infrastructure and the technical founders building them lance armstrong a former professional cyclist achieved early success in endurance sports and became the road race world champion at the age of 21 more recently as a cancer survivor he founded livestrong and helped raise 500 million serving over 3 million people he also created the cancer prevention and research institute of texas through a 3 billion bond initiative and made a 50 million donation to the dell medical school at the university of texas austin these contributions have had a significant impact on the fight against cancer in 2019 he co founded next ventures prior to this he was an active angel investor and lp in funds that invested in companies such as uber docusign and active com through his creation of the media platform wedu he hosts two chart topping podcasts themove and the forward with over 10 million annual listeners mel strong general partner mel strong general partner health wellness and sports technology plus go to market marketing and executive leadership across the portfolio melanie strong is a founding partner of next ventures where she focuses on innovative technology investments across health wellness and sports she is passionate about creating positive culture change through all her work this includes contributing to the removal of the many barriers preventing communities families and individuals from accessing all they need to live healthy fulfilled lives since co founding next ventures in 2019 mel has led investments in oura momentous and outside and supports the rest of the portfolio with go to market strategy marketing talent planning and executive leadership mel recently served as interim chief marketing officer for oura ring launching the gen 3 ring while sourcing and onboarding the company s first full time cmo prior to nv she spent 17 years at nike where she led several international businesses including nike women and football soccer and the launch of the nike running and training club apps and the nike fuelband mel started her career as a first grade teacher in philadelphia and a journalist working at both the center for public integrity and runner s world magazine jordan pascasio partner jordan pascasio partner the intersection of consumer and healthcare innovation shifting engagement and access upstream for proactive interconnected care jordan pascasio is a partner at next ventures where he invests at the intersection of consumer and healthcare innovation he is passionate about shifting engagement and access upstream to enable a more proactive and interconnected care delivery system since joining next ventures in 2021 jordan has been responsible for investments in select companies such as pair team trial library branchlab evergreen cofertility eternal and vital bio he also leads the content creation effort at the fund prior to working at next ventures jordan worked on the debt capital markets desk at deutsche bank mufg securities in a financial strategy role at venture backed startup inspire acq by shell and as the founder of sports betting startup trnds sports which sold to fansure jordan earned his bba in finance from the villanova school of business based in nyc he spends his free time running long distance races and training at athletic training facility tonehouse felix kim principal felix kim principal technology and technology enabled services across patients payors providers and pharmaceutical manufacturers with a focus on access felix kim is a principal at next ventures focused on addressing access challenges by investing in technology and technology enabled services businesses that serve patients payors providers and pharmaceutical manufacturers before joining next ventures felix was an investor at longitude capital and held various operating roles at transcarent and truepill prior to that felix was a healthcare investment associate at gi partners and an investment banking analyst at evercore partners felix holds a ba in philosophy political science and economics from the university of pennsylvania based in san francisco felix enjoys spending time outdoors with his wife and french bulldog cashew dani kolkebeck mba associate dani kolkebeck mba associate early stage investment research diligence and founder support across more accessible proactive care dani kolkebeck is an mba associate at next ventures where she supports early stage investment research diligence and founder support shaping more accessible proactive care prior to next ventures dani worked at kaufman hall a healthcare advisory firm in the mergers acquisitions practice advising healthcare organizations and strategic buyers on complex transactions dani earned her bba from the university of notre dame and is currently pursuing her mba at the university of texas at austin s mccombs school of business at mccombs dani is a hildebrand scholar and is actively involved in venture fellows based in austin dani enjoys exploring austin s food scene corepower yoga and runs around lady bird lake advisors karen knudsen karen knudsen aditi martin aditi martin mike matteo mike matteo marc rosenberg marc rosenberg jennifer wagner jennifer wagner stay up to date with our thinking substack 2026 next ventures all rights reserved 2901 bee caves rd building o austin tx 78746 legal created by 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