NextView Ventures

Holiday Vibes, Great Company! It’s always a good time when this Boston crew gets together. Thanks to our friends at NextView Ventures, Foley & Lardner LLP, Customers Bank, and everyone who came out to toast the season with us. Here’s to a big 2025—let’s keep the momentum going! 🎄 🥳 #venturecapital #Boston #startup #emergingmanagers

Big news today: Gentrace raised our $8M Series A led by Kojo Osei at Matrix. We’re celebrating by launching Experiments, the first collaborative testing environment for LLM product development. This year, we’ve helped our customers like Quizlet, Webflow, and Multiverse ship incredible LLM products. The one thing slowing everyone down? Evals. You can’t get to production without them, but they’re too hard to build and maintain. We’re changing that. Our customers grew testing by 40x adopting Gentrace because of our approach that connects a collaborative testing environment to your actual application code. Now PMs and engineers can work together to build evals that actually work. It’s a massive improvement to testing that ultimately makes generative AI products more reliable for everyone. This journey wouldn’t have been possible without our awesome angel investors: Yuhki Yamashita, Garrett Lord, Bryant Chou, Tuomas Artman, Martin Mao, David Cramer, Ben Sigelman, Steve Bartel, Cai GoGwilt, Linda Tong, Cristina Cordova, and many more. Thank you to our customers and team for believing in what we’re building! Every day, we’re inspired to make generative AI apps better because of your support.

We’re beyond thrilled to announce that our founders, Hilary Dubin and Caroline Huber, have been included in the class of 2025 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Healthcare! ✨ This recognition is a testament to their vision that has become Jones, the incredible team behind them, and our collective mission to create a judgement free approach to help people cut back or quit vaping & smoking. Congratulations to Caroline Vasquez Huber and Hilary Dubin, and thank you to our team, partners, and supporters who continue to make this journey possible. Here’s to driving even more impact together! Founder Collective NextView Ventures Good Friends Venture Capital

🚀 $2.2M Pre-Seed Announcement 🚀 We’re thrilled to announce our $2.2M pre-seed round, led by NextView Ventures (Rob Go, Melody Koh) and nvp capital (Skylar Dorosin, Daniel Borok), with participation from Ripple Ventures (Dominic Lau, Matt Cohen, Katie Ko), Beat Ventures (Dave Anderson, Colin Rogister) and SCVC Fund. Why Start Another Venture? This is my third start-up and my son, Theo, was just six months old, when I made the decision to jump back in. What tipped the scales for me was looking at both of my father figures: my dad and father-in-law. Both of them started their career-defining ventures after their first child. When I was a few years old, my dad bought a watermelon farm in central California (a place where we knew no one) to pursue his dream of building a golf course (even though he had no prior experience). We uprooted from San Francisco, and our family worked tirelessly to make it a success. We owned and ran the golf course for nearly 20+ years. My father-in-law, after completing his PhD in Sweden, moved to Georgia to start his family. There, he developed a groundbreaking patent for removing ink from paper, which became the foundation of a company that eventually went public. They've inspired me to execute at the highest level, and being a Dad has given me even more clarity, focus and velocity. I can only hope that Theo AI becomes something career-defining for me, just as their ventures were for them. Why Legal? After Catalog, I attended UCLA Law where I met Professor Alex Alben. Together, we co-wrote a paper on AI and its implication for the US and then co-founded the AI Forum, a 501c3 where we interviewed industry experts on AI and law. When I moved back to the Bay Area after graduation, I shared Theo AI with a new neighbor. He told me about the anxiety, stress, and uncertainty he endured during years of litigation, not knowing whether pursuing his case was the right decision. He said he wished he’d had a solution like Theo AI—to either give him the confidence to continue or let him know it wasn’t worth pursuing. Our mission is simple: to build the world’s most accurate legal prediction engine, empowering businesses and individuals to make informed decisions about whether litigation is worth it. Thank you It takes a community to grow a start-up, and I’m deeply grateful to our incredible team: Alex Alben, Tiago Luchini, Ariel C, Justin Krivda, MA, Sofia Viel, Alan Pogrebinschi, Manu Maurette, Robert Martorana, Steven Rosston, Max Littledale, Brian Jonathan Meier, Tomas Giampaoletti, Jon Koehmstedt and many others.