Melanie Strong

Founding Partner NEXT VENTURES VC

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2025
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Board Observer
Mar 2025
Ramble is creating the future of campgrounds -- breaking free from the traditional cramped parking-lot-style approach to provide everyone with the opportunity to camp in our consistently beautiful, low-density campgrounds and share amazing outdoor experiences with family and friends.
mid stageHospitality
Board Observer
Feb 2025
Cofertility is a human-first fertility ecosystem rewriting the egg freezing and egg donation experience. Our Freeze by Co platform enables women to freeze their eggs for free when they donate half of the eggs to a family that otherwise can’t conceive. For intended parents pursuing egg donation, our Family by Co platform serves as a more transparent, ethical egg donor matching platform. We are obsessed with improving the family-building journey — today or in the future — and are in an endless pursuit to make these experiences more positive.
Board Member
Oct 2023
OK Capsule exists to improve wellness for everyone by enabling any business to deliver a personalized nutrition experience directly to their customers. We envision a world where more people use more supplements to optimize their wellness, while decreasing pharmaceutical and plastic dependencies. OK Capsule is a B2B platform that provides the technology, products, fulfillment, and strategic support that makes it safe, simple, and sustainable for companies to launch and scale the delivery of tailored supplement packets to their customers.
Board Member
Mar 2021
At Momentous, our mission is to democratize high performance. We do this because we believe that people at their best will produce a positive impact in their personal lives, families, communities, and ultimately the world. We have recently been recognized as one of Inc.’s Fastest Growing Companies and one of Utah’s Top 100 Companies Championing Women. We offer the highest quality nutritional and dietary supplements, researched and developed by leading scientific minds. Our focus on rigorous quality control and independent third-party testing is one of many reasons why nearly 200 pro and college sports teams use our products, including all NFL teams. No matter our customers goal or what they want to achieve, we are on a quest to help them get there.
Board Observer
Jun 2020
Outside Interactive, Inc. is the premier destination for outdoor inspiration, activation, and celebration. Each year, Outside reaches more than 300 million unique users and has more than 100 million registered users across its network of 25 media, service, and utility brands, including Outside, MapMyFitness, Velo, Yoga Journal, Pinkbike, Gaia GPS, Trailforks, athleteReg, and more. Outside’s mission is to get everyone outside, experiencing healthy, connected, and fulfilling lives by creating an experience for both longtime adventurers and those just getting started. Outside’s subscription offering, Outside+, bundles best-in-class storytelling, videos, gear reviews, mapping apps, online courses, discounted event access, and more. Learn more at outsideonline.com/outsideplus
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2025
Board Observer
Mar 2025
Ramble is creating the future of campgrounds -- breaking free from the traditional cramped parking-lot-style approach to provide everyone with the opportunity to camp in our consistently beautiful, low-density campgrounds and share amazing outdoor experiences with family and friends.
mid stageHospitality
Board Observer
Feb 2025
Cofertility is a human-first fertility ecosystem rewriting the egg freezing and egg donation experience. Our Freeze by Co platform enables women to freeze their eggs for free when they donate half of the eggs to a family that otherwise can’t conceive. For intended parents pursuing egg donation, our Family by Co platform serves as a more transparent, ethical egg donor matching platform. We are obsessed with improving the family-building journey — today or in the future — and are in an endless pursuit to make these experiences more positive.
2023
Board Member
Oct 2023
OK Capsule exists to improve wellness for everyone by enabling any business to deliver a personalized nutrition experience directly to their customers. We envision a world where more people use more supplements to optimize their wellness, while decreasing pharmaceutical and plastic dependencies. OK Capsule is a B2B platform that provides the technology, products, fulfillment, and strategic support that makes it safe, simple, and sustainable for companies to launch and scale the delivery of tailored supplement packets to their customers.
2021
Board Member
Nov 2021
With sports nutrition for every ambition, Honey Stinger sweetens the burn to help you push through any challenge.
Board Member
Mar 2021
At Momentous, our mission is to democratize high performance. We do this because we believe that people at their best will produce a positive impact in their personal lives, families, communities, and ultimately the world. We have recently been recognized as one of Inc.’s Fastest Growing Companies and one of Utah’s Top 100 Companies Championing Women. We offer the highest quality nutritional and dietary supplements, researched and developed by leading scientific minds. Our focus on rigorous quality control and independent third-party testing is one of many reasons why nearly 200 pro and college sports teams use our products, including all NFL teams. No matter our customers goal or what they want to achieve, we are on a quest to help them get there.
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