Scott Kosch
Senior Partner at NextAccess
Austin, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Partner
2024 - Current
NextAccess is an advisory firm of highly experienced sales and marketing experts and AI practitioners who deliver pragmatic go-to-market solutions for ambitious companies. We cut through the noise to accelerate scalable revenue growth and enhance margins by harnessing the best in artificial - and human - intelligence.
Managing Partner
2006
Provide funding, advisory services, and liquidity solutions to startups, early-stage ventures and growth-oriented lower middle-market companies. Experienced in energy, communications, media, software, hardware, healthcare, green tech, fin tech, and real estate.
Investor and Mentor
2013
Techstars is the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. Techstars founders and their teams connect with other entrepreneurs, experts, mentors, alumni, investors, community leaders, and corporate partners who will help their companies grow. Techstars operates three divisions: Techstars Startup Programs, Techstars Mentorship-Driven Accelerator Programs and Techstars Corporate Innovation Partnerships.
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
Investor
2023
Ansa Biotechnologies is developing a new way to make DNA that will be faster, cleaner, and more accurate than existing methods. Currently, DNA is manufactured via a chemical method that has remained mostly unchanged for 35 years. Our enzyme-based approach promises to dramatically accelerate innovation in biological research and biotechnology, including therapeutics, diagnostics and biomanufacturing.
Ansa Biotechnologies develops a novel DNA synthesis technology based on enzymes.
Raised $83,419,682.00 from Humboldt Fund, RA Capital Management, Fifty Years, Peak 6, Altitude Life Science Ventures, Fiscus Ventures, Northpond Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Mubadala Capital Ventures and Carbon Silicon Ventures.
Investor
2021
Lightbeam is a mobile-first storytelling platform, featuring shareable micro-films that champion inspiring people.
Investor
2021
Noteworthy AI is working to keep the electric grid energized. ⚡️ We believe that through artificial intelligence, the reliability, resilience and safety of the electric grid can be significantly increased - something that we can all benefit from, as our reliance on the grid continues to exponentially increase.
Noteworthy provides vehicle-mounted computer vision technology that identifies visual defects in grid assets like utility poles.
Raised $8,808,453.00 from Connecticut Innovations, Avesta Fund, Keiki Capital, Techstars, City Light Capital, Susquehanna International Group (SIG), Climate Capital, Boro Capital, Asymmetry Ventures and C2 Ventures.
Investor and Advisor
2021
HData is an enterprise software company and the creator of FERC Pro, which automates energy regulatory data and provides a valuable business intelligence platform.
HData is a RegTech company that is digitizing the entire regulated energy industry by automating access to critical analytics.
Raised $13,350,000.00 from Hyde Park Venture Partners, Victorum Capital, Frontier Venture Capital, Buoyant Ventures and Firebrand Ventures.
Investor and Advisor
2020
Shipshape makes smart homes intelligent. We are on a mission to network together all of the critical systems in your home to provide a total home health analysis. Over time, we will partner with homeowners to connect, maintain, repair, and replace the critical systems that they rely on for their homes.
Automating home maintenance
Investor
2016
data.world makes it easy for everyone—not just the "data people"—to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. Our cloud-native data catalog maps your siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can find, understand, and use. data.world is an Austin-based Certified B Corporation and home to the world’s largest collaborative open data community and catalog, including COVID-19 public datasets.
Data.world is the cloud-native data catalog platform.
Raised $132,300,000.00 from Shasta Ventures, Dave Liu, Vopak, Paul Albright, Scott Stephenson, Sandbox Insurtech Ventures, Richard Braddock, Alumni Ventures, Prologis Ventures and Zachary Karabell.
Investor
2014
Cheddar Up is the simplest way to collect and track online payments from a group. Its wildly simple user interface makes collecting online payments accessible to anyone. It allows individuals, schools and organizations (anyone!) to create custom online payment pages in a matter of seconds for almost anything, providing an alternative to inefficient cash and check payments and paper forms. Cheddar Up features robust online payer tracking, automatic reminders, no fees for the collector, and the ability for people to pay in as few as three clicks. Whether it’s a group gift or trip, event, school fundraiser or membership dues…Cheddar Up makes group payments quick and easy.
Cheddar Up helps groups easily collect payments and forms.
Raised $2,225,000.00 from Kickstart, Royal Street Ventures and Stout Street Capital.