Investing Profile

Chris Keller

Managing Partner at NextGen Venture Partners

Washington, D.C.

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Networks Chris is a member of

Johnson & Johnson Network

77 CONNECTIONS

NextGen Venture Partners Network

69 CONNECTIONS

Virginia Tech Network

38 CONNECTIONS

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Network

35 CONNECTIONS

HubSpot Network

31 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

NextGen Venture Partners Managing Partner

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$20.7M

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Washington, D.C.

Chris Keller's Investments On Record (5)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Patented.ai	Pre SeedJun 2023$5M	$9M
Co-investors: Eric Paley (Founder Collective), Steve Anderson (Baseline Ventures), Nicole M. Stata (Warwick Investment Group), Peter Blacklow (Boston Seed Capital), Neil Sirni (Proximity Ventures), Giuseppe Stuto (186 Ventures), Philip H. Beauregard (Impellent Ventures), David Brown (Impellent Ventures), Kevin Alvarez-Fung (Predictive VC), Jeff Fagnan (Accomplice VC), Mallun Yen (Village Global), Ali Rowghani (Y Combinator), Rob Go (NextView Ventures), Jennifer Lum (Biospring Partners), Brian Shin (VitalStage Ventures), Anne Dwane (Village Global), David Chang (TBD Angels), Scott Belsky (A24), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Wayne Chang (Techstars), Jeff Seibert
Infringements	Pre SeedJun 2023$4M	$4M
Co-investors: Steve Anderson (Baseline Ventures), Nicole M. Stata (Warwick Investment Group), Neil Sirni (Proximity Ventures), Giuseppe Stuto (186 Ventures), Philip H. Beauregard (Impellent Ventures), David Brown (Impellent Ventures), Kevin Alvarez-Fung (Predictive VC), Jeff Fagnan (Accomplice VC), Mallun Yen (Village Global), Ali Rowghani (Y Combinator), Rob Go (NextView Ventures), Jennifer Lum (Biospring Partners), Brian Shin (VitalStage Ventures), David Chang (TBD Angels), Scott Belsky (A24), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Jeff Seibert
Invalidate	Pre SeedJun 2023$4M	$4M
Co-investors: Steve Anderson (Baseline Ventures), Nicole M. Stata (Warwick Investment Group), Neil Sirni (Proximity Ventures), Giuseppe Stuto (186 Ventures), Philip H. Beauregard (Impellent Ventures), David Brown (Impellent Ventures), Kevin Alvarez-Fung (Predictive VC), Jeff Fagnan (Accomplice VC), Mallun Yen (Village Global), Ali Rowghani (Y Combinator), Rob Go (NextView Ventures), Jennifer Lum (Biospring Partners), Brian Shin (VitalStage Ventures), David Chang (TBD Angels), Scott Belsky (A24), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Jeff Seibert
Reasoner	Pre SeedJun 2023
Co-investors: Steve Anderson (Baseline Ventures), Eric Paley (Founder Collective), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Kevin Alvarez-Fung (Predictive VC), Jeff Fagnan (Accomplice VC), Mallun Yen (Village Global), Ali Rowghani (Y Combinator), Rob Go (NextView Ventures), Jennifer Lum (Biospring Partners), Brian Shin (VitalStage Ventures), Anne Dwane (Village Global), David Chang (TBD Angels), Scott Belsky (A24), Nicole M. Stata (Warwick Investment Group), Peter Blacklow (Boston Seed Capital), Neil Sirni (Proximity Ventures), Giuseppe Stuto (186 Ventures), Philip H. Beauregard (Impellent Ventures), David Brown (Impellent Ventures), Jeff Seibert
Digits	Series ANov 2019$11M Series ANov 2019$11M	$110M
Co-investors: Peter Fenton (Benchmark), Jeremy Levine (Bessemer Venture Partners), David Cancel (Sequoia Capital), Gabe Greenbaum (B Capital Group), Justin Kan (Goat Capital), Pat Kinsel (Polaris Partners), Jennifer Lum (Biospring Partners), Brian Shin (VitalStage Ventures), Anne Dwane (Village Global), David Chang (TBD Angels), Adrian Aoun (500 Startups Korea), Matt Murphy (Kleiner Perkins), Nicole M. Stata (Warwick Investment Group), Kevin Weil (Council on Foreign Relations), Adam Bain (01 Advisors), Ali Rowghani (Y Combinator), Katie Stanton (Moxxie Ventures), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Jordan Fliegel (Techstars), Dick Costolo (01 Advisors), April Underwood (Adverb Ventures), Jana Messerschmidt (#ANGELS (Hashtag ANGELS)), Richard Jun (Bam Ventures), Brian Lee (Bam Ventures), Jessica Verrilli (Adverb Ventures), Harry Stebbings (Stride.VC), Wayne Chang (Techstars), Nat Friedman (Self-employed), Jeff Fagnan (Accomplice VC), Eric Wu (Resolute Ventures), Chloe Sladden (Broadway Angels), Merlin Kauffman, Aaron Levie, Jason Robins, Ric Fulop, Joshua Reeves

Chris Keller's Experience

Managing Partner NextGen Venture Partners2015 - Present

Product Development Manager Arts Alliance LabsPresent

Founder Drillfield Design, LLCPresent

Founder FollowUp.ccPresent

Founder & CEO (acquired by Argon Technologies) Drillfield Design, LLCPresent

Founder & CEO (acquired by Argon Technologies) FollowUp.ccPresent

Founder (acquired by Argon Technologies) FollowUp.cc2007 - 2014

Product Owner, HubSpot Labs HubSpot2009 - 2010

Co-Founder Fafarazzi.com2005 - 2009

Founder MeshTennis.com2005 - 2009

Product Development Manager Arts Alliance Labs, Inc.2007 - 2007

IM Senior Analyst Johnson & Johnson2003 - 2007

Co-Founder Drillfield Design, LLC2000 - 2003

Chris Keller's Education

Virginia Tech B.S. Computer Science and Economics

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University B.S. Computer Science and Economics

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