What is NextUp Scale?

NextUp Scale is a bespoke accelerator, helping transformative startups that aim to advance industries and technologies in AI, Future of Work (FoW), Consumer, Sustainability, and Emerging Technology Infrastructure sustainably scale in their earliest days and investing in the most promising ones after they launch. We help upcelerate and invest in game-changing emerging technology startups through our NextUp approach: the radically different way in which we accelerate centered around providing strategic advice and deep expertise in startup and growth strategy, product development, marketing, raising capital, and operations directly from our leadership team of serial entrepreneurs and venture capital fund managers through a novel individualized, strategic, and hands-on style in order to speedily take ventures to the next level.
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We help upcelerate and invest in game-changing emerging technology startups through our NextUp approach: the radically different way in which we accelerate centered around providing strategic advice and deep expertise in startup and growth strategy, product development, marketing, raising capital, and operations directly from our leadership team of serial entrepreneurs and venture capital fund managers through a novel individualized, strategic, and hands-on style in order to speedily take ventures to the next level.

~$300M

Portfolio Company Value

Average Revenue Growth Within 6 Months of Joining

500%

Average Valuation Increase Within 6 Months of Joining

90%+

Portfolio Companies Launched > 25% Ahead of Schedule

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Check out NextUp Pre-Launch, an accelerator that leverages our experienced team, expertise, and mentor circle to help build your startup through our same individualized, strategic, and hands-on approach.

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Experienced team.
Hundreds of millions raised. 20+ exits/IPOs

Our team of operators, investors, and advisors across every age bracket have over a century of combined experience in scaling startups in a variety of leadership and advisory roles, helping raise/invest hundreds of millions of dollars with a 10x+ return on investment and successfully growing or exiting over 20 companies as founders or VC’s.

Our team will help bring your startup to the next level and get ready to raise capital through individualized strategic advice and hands-on services over a flexible time period, plug you into our large community of LvlUp NextUp startups and Portfolio Companies, and offer you up to $500,000 of perks.

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Individualized approach.
Bringing your venture to the next level.

Every company is different. We believe that the traditional startup accelerator model doesn’t work nearly as well as it can, because of the non-customized, funnel-like approach that it employs. We’re transforming the way that startups grow by providing an individualized, strategic, hands-on, and cohortless (the opportunity to grow is now open 24/7/365) approach to scaling your startup to Series A and raising capital.

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We invest.
And Provide further value in more ways than one.

We consider investing in the most promising ventures which take part in NextUp, writing checks of up to $250,000 in a limited number of companies following program completion and aiming to bring value throughout the entire startup journey through our mentorship and connections. Following the scale, startups can pitch to LvlUp in a community day consisting of our fund team, PortCo’s, entrepreneurs, and others in the startup ecosystem with the goal of getting a pre-seed or seed investment.

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Our Focus

We believe in all founders with a vision and high-potential solutions that utilize emerging technology to change the way people live and work for the better, or provide the infrastructure for ventures to do so. We work with growing, early-stage companies that have launched and have $10,000 or less in Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR). We act as an extension of your team by providing strategic advice and expertise to help you go-to-market and be well positioned to scale.

$150M

We Have Helped Raise

$750k

In Sponsored Perks

FinTech, HealthTech, AI, Future of Work, Web3.0, Sustainability, SAAS, Enterprise Tech, Consumer, Entertainment Tech

Focus Verticals

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250+

Industry-Leading Mentors

5-10%

Month-over-Month Growth

MENTORS

And more...

Next Level Mentorship:
NextUp Mentor Circle

The NextUp Mentor Circle connects Portfolio Companies (PortCo’s) with in-network and out-of-network mentors, aiming to achieve an excellent match between the startups which we help upcelerate and our mentors in terms of culture, experience, expertise, and connection value-add.

When a startup becomes a part of NextUp, we conduct a double-pronged search through our refined mentor community and leaders of highly similar, successful companies who we can virtually always recruit through our extensive networks. NextUp’s mentor community members are leaders in their industries with thousands of years of combined experience and dozens of exits/IPO’s. If we don’t find an exceptional fit for a startup within our mentor community, we will initiate and execute discovery for a mentor outside of our program who does.

All NextUp Mentor Circle Members are carefully chosen by LvlUp Ventures’ leadership team and incentivized to provide their expertise as a result of NextUp sharing a piece of its equity stake in the maximum of two PortCo’s which they support with them. Each NextUp PortCo receives NextUp-core-team-complementary strategic advice and hands-on support from one or two mentors in the NextUp Mentor Circle who will also assist in achieving KPIs and voluntarily make connections to potential partners and clients in their network.

CurationThe NextUp Mentor Circle is highly selective with mentors, only accepting the best of industries who complement each other within our network and ensure that they will add a large amount of value that’s complementary to our non-mentor support when advising PortCo’s.
Substantial ValueWe don’t match you with a “good” mentor, we leverage our extensive mentor program and networks to find an exceptional one who can deliver game-changing support that complements our core team’s strategic advice and hands-on expertise.
Double-Pronged Matching ApproachIn addition to searching within our program, we leverage our resources to find other industry-leaders to mentor our PortCo’s and join the NextUp Mentor Circle.

The NextUp Approach

Our methodology delivers strategic advisory, impactful services, exclusive mentorship, access to LvlUp's unparalleled community, and the opportunity to radically improve your fundraise.

Receive guidance from our team who have founded and helped grow companies to a combined billions of dollars in market capitalization, accelerated over 200 companies, and invested in over 1,000 early-stage startups. Work with us on a bi-weekly or greater basis with the goal of solving pain points, leveraging growth opportunities, radically increasing revenue, avoiding hundreds of mistakes that we have seen and learned from, and accelerate your fundraising.

Leverage the power of LvlUp Ventures' powerful community and synergies with other PortCo's which have led to achievements such as transformative partnerships with companies like Microsoft to be displayed on every Bing search and Lockerverse to access a reach of millions of people.

Get connected to hundreds of investment firms and investors in LvlUp's ecosystem.

Receive expert advice from seasoned mentors on a bi-weekly basis to develop growth strategies, test ideas, and scale more sustainably.

Cut your burn by as much as 80% through our dozens of high-quality perks from some of the best service providers from AWS to Nelson Mullins.

Bespoke Accelerator Structure

We work with a few dozen companies per year. They love the results.

Equity

When we select a post-launch startup for NextUp, we aim to help them scale and we share in their success with a 0.5-1.5% equity grant.

Duration

NextUp is flexible in length, depending on a startup’s needs. It can be 12-Weeks, 8 months, or anything in between, all based on a customized, adjustable plan. We’re goal-oriented, not prediction-oriented.

Benefits

LvlUp doesn’t take a weekly schedule approach to helping startups scale. Rather, it provides Strategy, Growth Strategy, Product Development, Product Management, Marketing, and fundraising expertise and strategic advice in an intentional, sequential order, providing one service at a time until the startup is ready for the next stage of development. We will work with you to help you develop a growth strategy and raise capital starting at any point at which your startup is ready during your time in NextUp or after.

Bringing NextUp's Resources To Your Startup

Receive weekly, bi-weekly, or more personalized guidance on just about everything you need to accelerate growth from our Team of founders and investors with 20+ Exits/IPO's

Craft or refine a growth strategy meant to increase the success of your venture and size of your next round

Be introduced to NextUp's network of thousands of connections

Navigate fundraising strategy and execution with strategic advice and support including our game-changing fundraising tool partnerships and implementation assistance

Refine your Pitch Deck with our team that has raised over $150M

Craft Investor, Customer, And Partner Pitches

Get Our VC Group's Data Room Audit

Plug into our portfolio of high-growth startups and find synergies to grow faster

Receive mentorship from members of NextUp's exclusive Mentor Circle of industry leaders
And more...

Take Your Startup to the Next Level.

What is NextUp Scale?

Haven't launched yet?

Experienced team.
Hundreds of millions raised. 20+ exits/IPOs

Individualized approach.
Bringing your venture to the next level.

We invest.
And Provide further value in more ways than one.

Our Focus

$150M

$750k

FinTech, HealthTech, AI, Future of Work, Web3.0, Sustainability, SAAS, Enterprise Tech, Consumer, Entertainment Tech

250+

5-10%

Next Level Mentorship:
NextUp Mentor Circle

The NextUp Approach

Bespoke Accelerator Structure

Equity

Duration

Benefits

Bringing NextUp's Resources To Your Startup

NextUp Portfolio

Bring your venture to the next level.

Take Your Startup to the Next Level.

What is NextUp Scale?

Haven't launched yet?

Experienced team.Hundreds of millions raised. 20+ exits/IPOs

Individualized approach.Bringing your venture to the next level.

We invest.And Provide further value in more ways than one.

Our Focus

$150M

$750k

FinTech, HealthTech, AI, Future of Work, Web3.0, Sustainability, SAAS, Enterprise Tech, Consumer, Entertainment Tech

250+

5-10%

Next Level Mentorship:NextUp Mentor Circle

The NextUp Approach

Bespoke Accelerator Structure

Equity

Duration

Benefits

Bringing NextUp's Resources To Your Startup

NextUp Portfolio

Bring your venture to the next level.

Experienced team.
Hundreds of millions raised. 20+ exits/IPOs

Individualized approach.
Bringing your venture to the next level.

We invest.
And Provide further value in more ways than one.

Next Level Mentorship:
NextUp Mentor Circle