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New Enterprise Associates

Multiple offices

New Enterprise Associates invests across Enterprise, Consumer, Financial Technology, Biotechnology, Digital Health from Idea through Seed through Series A through Series B. Strategy, team, and company relationships are indexed from the firm’s official pages.

EnterpriseConsumerFinancial TechnologyBiotechnologyDigital HealthArtificial Intelligenceenterpriseconsumerfintechlife sciencesdigital health
Key people indexed4
Listed companies11
Distinct official sources9
Last checked2026-09-04
Strategy lens

Declared focus vs. observed sample

Declared focus reflects the firm’s own strategy language. Observed sectors summarize only the source-linked companies currently indexed here; it is not the firm’s complete portfolio allocation.

Observed company sample
Healthcare / digital health4
AI data infrastructure1
crypto and fintech1
data and AI infrastructure1
generative voice AI1
Technology / consumer AI1
Technology / enterprise1
vector database and AI infrastructure1
Founder fit screen

Prepare before contacting NEA

Use the firm’s declared strategy and sourced relationship graph to build a specific outreach thesis. This is a preparation framework—not a claim about current appetite or check size.

01

Stage fit

Explain why the company belongs in Idea, Seed, Series A and what proof has already removed the prior stage’s risk.

02

Sector fit

Anchor the opportunity to Enterprise, Consumer, Financial Technology. Name the specific market shift and why it is happening now.

03

Partner fit

Review 4 indexed team profiles. Address the partner whose operating history and portfolio context best match the company.

04

Portfolio context

Study the 11 source-linked companies shown here. State whether the company is complementary, differentiated, or potentially competitive.

05

Evidence packet

Bring customer proof, cohort or deployment metrics, gross-margin logic, capital use, key risks, and the milestone this financing should unlock.

06

Contact route

Use the firm’s public route and keep the request precise: company, stage, round, traction, why this firm, and one clear next step.

Key people

Who shapes the partnership

Official team source
Branded placeholder portrait for Scott Sandell; identity image not yet verified

Executive Chairman & Chief Investment Officer

Scott Sandell

Executive Chairman & Chief Investment Officer at New Enterprise Associates, with firm-level focus spanning Enterprise, Consumer, Financial Technology, Biotechnology.
Branded placeholder portrait for Rick Yang; identity image not yet verified

Partner, Head of Technology

Rick Yang

Partner, Head of Technology at New Enterprise Associates, with firm-level exposure to Artificial Intelligence, enterprise, consumer, fintech.
Selected relationships

Investments listed by the firm

Official portfolio source
Co-investment map

Firms sharing listed companies

Ranked by shared companies in this indexed dataset—not necessarily the same financing round.

01

Andreessen Horowitz

Databricks

1shared
02

Fincadia Capital Partners

Perplexity AI

1shared
03

IVP

Perplexity

1shared
04

Thrive Capital

Databricks

1shared
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Source discipline

This dossier uses publicly available firm pages for team, strategy, and portfolio context. It does not infer check size, ownership, valuation, current holding status, or availability for introductions.