Next Wave NYC is a pre-seed venture fund run by some of the best and brightest founders, operators & community leaders from the last decade of the New York City startup scene.

Our investment team includes leaders from Anthropic, Brex, Casper, Chief, Classpass, Fizz, Foursquare, Google, Lovable, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Snowflake, Squire and WeWork, primed to back the next generation of world-changing founders from this city.

Our investment areas currently include AI infrastructure/developer platforms, agentic business applications, and AI for human leverage. We write $50k checks and the Next Wave NYC team aim is to be your very first commitment, supporter, and champion, before you ever go out to raise a dollar of capital.

Next Wave NYC is wholly backed by Flybridge Capital.