Thomas Ball

Co-Founder & Managing Director @ Next Coast Ventures

📍 Austin, Texas, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 21 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Mar 2020
Osano, a leading data privacy platform, simplifies privacy compliance by helping organizations build, manage, and scale their privacy program to increase trust, stay compliant, and do the right thing. Founded in Austin, Texas, in 2018, the fully remote data privacy management company solves for consent management, data subject rights, assessments, and vendor risk — all in one place. Osano is recognized as a leader in consent management and a momentum leader in data privacy management by G2. The organization is also recognized as a Best Place to Work for 2023. Learn how Osano can simplify data privacy for you at https://osano.com. Join companies like JDSupra, Sierra Nevada, Sesame Workshop, Broadridge, New Relic, The Linux Foundation, Boston Medical, Sprinklr, Rodd&Gunn, BuzzRx, Loves, White Castle, Ping, New Egg, and AMC Theatres in trusting us to help you run your privacy program.
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Sep 2012
We believe every business deserves great marketing. OutboundEngine helps businesses grow by making online marketing simple and easy for everyone. We combine simple marketing software with a team of experts who go to work for you every day. We make our customers look great online and keep them top of mind with their network, automatically, so they can build stronger relationships, uncover new opportunities and stay focused on what they do best.
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Aug 2005
Thousands of the world’s leading brands and retailers trust Bazaarvoice’s full-funnel platform to harness and activate the invaluable voices of their customers. This authentic user-generated content in the form of star ratings, consumer reviews, questions and answers, social content, sampling, and creator and influencer marketing, inspires confident purchases, leading to even more customer content creation. Founded in 2005, Bazaarvoice is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in North America, Europe, and Australia.
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2020
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Dec 2020
UpEquity is a veteran-owned real estate tech company on a mission to give homeowners more power and certainty. We offer Buy Before You Sell and Buy with Cash solutions. Trade Up is designed to help consumers buy their next home without a home sale contingency before selling their current one. Our custom solution allows you to unlock your equity and make a stronger offer on your New Home, without undercutting the sale of your old one. Our Buy with Cash program empowers everyday homebuyers by turning them into cash buyers. Not only are cash offers more likely to win, cash buyers command more negotiation power than traditional buyers. We use our funds to make the offer on your behalf. Once accepted, the New Home closes in your name. UpEquity was created out of a passion to solve the broken home buying process and launched through the Y Combinator program. UpEquity offers innovative solutions in hopes of providing more equal access to the American Dream. Ready to be a part of something special? UpEquity SPV2 LLC DBA, NMLS #2101265 Not available in all states. Equal Housing Lender. Licensing info available at upequity.com/licensing
early stageReal Estate
Board Member/Investor
Mar 2020
Osano, a leading data privacy platform, simplifies privacy compliance by helping organizations build, manage, and scale their privacy program to increase trust, stay compliant, and do the right thing. Founded in Austin, Texas, in 2018, the fully remote data privacy management company solves for consent management, data subject rights, assessments, and vendor risk — all in one place. Osano is recognized as a leader in consent management and a momentum leader in data privacy management by G2. The organization is also recognized as a Best Place to Work for 2023. Learn how Osano can simplify data privacy for you at https://osano.com. Join companies like JDSupra, Sierra Nevada, Sesame Workshop, Broadridge, New Relic, The Linux Foundation, Boston Medical, Sprinklr, Rodd&Gunn, BuzzRx, Loves, White Castle, Ping, New Egg, and AMC Theatres in trusting us to help you run your privacy program.
2015
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Nov 2015
Next Coast Ventures is an Austin venture capital firm that partners with bold entrepreneurs building innovative companies in big markets. It provides early-stage capital to high-growth startups in ‘Next Coast’ markets, using macro trends and themes to guide their investment strategy. In partnering with Next Coast, the fund provides hands-on, company building resources to its growing portfolio through its strong industry network, venture partner program and the founders’ own experiences as entrepreneurs.
2012
Investor
Sep 2012
We believe every business deserves great marketing. OutboundEngine helps businesses grow by making online marketing simple and easy for everyone. We combine simple marketing software with a team of experts who go to work for you every day. We make our customers look great online and keep them top of mind with their network, automatically, so they can build stronger relationships, uncover new opportunities and stay focused on what they do best.
2005
Investor
Aug 2005
Thousands of the world’s leading brands and retailers trust Bazaarvoice’s full-funnel platform to harness and activate the invaluable voices of their customers. This authentic user-generated content in the form of star ratings, consumer reviews, questions and answers, social content, sampling, and creator and influencer marketing, inspires confident purchases, leading to even more customer content creation. Founded in 2005, Bazaarvoice is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in North America, Europe, and Australia.
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