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Lee Hower
Founder & Partner at NextView Ventures
Greater Boston
Overview
Lee Hower is a Co-Founder & Partner at NextView Ventures in Boston, Massachusetts, specializing in investing in early-stage companies across various sectors. Noteworthy achievements include investing in successful companies like Grove Collaborative and leading investments in Forum, Lula, and Datapeople.
Work Experience
Co-Founder & Partner
2010 - Current
We are high conviction, hands-on seed investors. We champion founders who want to redesign daily living for everyday people. Learn more about NextView's approach here: http://nextviewventures.com/approach/
Investor & Board Observer
2013
WHOOP is a performance optimization system that tracks athlete recovery, training, and sleeping hours to help boost performance.
Raised $404,751,000.00 from Thursday Ventures, Sahin Boydas, SoftBank Vision Fund, Accomplice, NextView Ventures, GP Bullhound, CAVU Consumer Partners, IVP and Animal Capital.
Investor & Board Member
2022
Investor & Board Member
2019
Zitara builds battery management software for enterprises with large deployments.
Raised $29,000,000.00 from Chevron Technology Ventures, Energy Impact Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Emerson Ventures, Climate Capital, NextView Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Trucks Venture Capital and Energy Impact Partners.
Investor & Board Director
2015
NextView co-led the Series Seed. I served as a board director from 2015 through mid 2017 and transitioned to a board observer role after Series B.
Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home, and personal care products.
Raised $621,500,000.00 from Volition Capital, Lone Pine Capital, General Atlantic, Paul Polman, Sculptor and Corvina Holdings.
Investor & Board Observer
2021
Expressable is an online speech therapy platform designed for individuals with communication disorders.
Raised $45,500,000.00 from Digitalis Ventures, HarbourVest Partners, F-Prime Capital and Lerer Hippeau.
Investor & Board Member
2021
SamaCare automates the prior authorization process to improve patients' access to therapy.
Raised $34,800,663.00 from Vive Collective, South Park Commons and Questa Capital Management.
Investor
2020
KarmaCheck is a software company that provides a streamlined API platform that offers background screening services for candidate placement.
Raised $64,200,000.00 from GC1 Ventures, AAF Management Ltd., Alumni Ventures, PruVen Capital, Velvet Sea Ventures, Parameter Ventures and NextView Ventures.
Investor
2012 - 2023
Seed investor in Skillz, which went public December 2020.
Skillz is a marketplace platform for competition-based mobile games.
Raised $287,300,000.00 from Neuberger Berman, Fidelity, Wellington Management and X (formerly Twitter).
Investor
2012 - 2023
Plastiq offers a bill pay service for businesses to better manage their cash flow.
Raised $141,849,986.00 from Gaingels.