Brian Rumao

Managing Director, Next Play Ventures

๐Ÿ“ United States๐Ÿ”„ Updated September 2026๐Ÿ’ผ 1 investments๐Ÿ“… 8 years investing๐Ÿ—“ Last invested Jun 2018
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Angel Investor
Jun 2018
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2020
Managing Director
May 2020
Our mission is to coach and invest in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations. Led by Jeff Weiner and Brian Rumao. Sector focus areas include B2B / enterprise software, financial tech, consumer apps, health and wellness and education. We are interested in productivity software and virtual work, direct-to-consumer / e-commerce, SaaS, and data and AI/ML-powered platforms Investments include: Bicycle Health, Brex, Brightwheel, Brilliant, Browser Company, Cameo, Cloudera (IPO: CLDR), Common Room, Cricket Health, CurlMix, EdLyft, Encantos, Esusu, Everfi, Evervault, Fast, Figma, Gather, Ginger, Hatch, Headspace, Linktree, Little Passports, LogicGate, Nana Academy, Notion, Pace, Pine Field, Scale, Seesaw, Slack (IPO: WORK), SpoonfulOne, Toucan, Trala, Truework, Vox Media, Wellthy, Wildlife Studios.
2019
LP
Dec 2019
Westbound Equity Partners is an early stage firm investing financial and social capital into exceptional leaders and teams who come from all walks of life to build generationally great companies. Our support goes beyond capital: the Westbound team and Network partner deeply with founders to build intentional, winning cultures and scale with excellence.
2018
Angel Investor
Jun 2018
Various board memberships