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At a glance
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) appears in 13 funding rounds tracked by ValueAddVC since 2025, leading 7. Its most frequent sectors in these rounds are AI & Infrastructure and Fintech & Crypto, and its most recent tracked deal was Spiko's $90M Series B round (Oct 6, 2026). It co-invests most often with Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and NVentures. ValueAddVC also tracks 10 funds managed by New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
Strategy
Stages
SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
Sectors
AIEnterpriseHealthcareFintechConsumerVertical AI
Geographies
USAMenlo Park, California, USA
Check size
$500K–$100MRecent changes
- Oct 6, 2026Oct 6, 2026Invested in Spiko (Series B, $90M) Pulse2.com
- Oct 5, 2026Oct 5, 2026Invested in Namespace Labs (Series B, $42M) SiliconANGLE
- Oct 5, 2026Oct 5, 2026Invested in Clockwork.io ($31M) The SaaS News
- Oct 4, 2026Oct 4, 2026Invested in Basalt Health (Series A, $20M) Pulse 2.0
- Oct 4, 2026Oct 4, 2026Basalt Health Raises $20M Series A Led By NEA Pulse story
Earlier changes (15)
- Sep 10, 2026Sep 10, 2026Invested in Positron AI (Series C, $875M) PR Newswire (company announcement)
- Sep 5, 2026Sep 5, 2026Stages updated: Seed, Series A, Series B, Growth nea.com
- Sep 5, 2026Sep 5, 2026Check size updated: $500K–$100M nea.com
- Sep 5, 2026Sep 5, 2026Sectors updated: AI, Enterprise, Healthcare, Fintech, Consumer, Vertical AI nea.com
- Aug 3, 2026Aug 3, 2026Invested in Horizon3.ai (Series E, $250M) TechCrunch
- Aug 3, 2026Aug 3, 2026Invested in P-1 AI (Series A, $50M) Tech Startups
- Jul 20, 2026Jul 20, 2026Follow-on: Invested in CuspAI (Series B, $450M) CNBC
- Jul 1, 2026Jul 1, 2026Invested in TwelveLabs (Series B, $100M) PYMNTS
- Jan 26, 2026Jan 26, 2026Follow-on: Invested in Synthesia (Series E, $200M) techmorning.eu
- Dec 18, 2025Dec 18, 2025New fund: New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Fund 19 SEC EDGAR Form D
- Sep 10, 2025Sep 10, 2025Invested in CuspAI (Series A, $100M) SiliconANGLE
- Apr 3, 2025Apr 3, 2025Invested in Plaid (Series E, $575M) CNBC
- Jan 15, 2025Jan 15, 2025Invested in Synthesia (Series D, $180M) TechCrunch
- Dec 22, 2021Dec 22, 2021New fund: New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Fund 18 (target $2.9B) SEC EDGAR Form D
- Mar 1, 2019Mar 1, 2019New fund: New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Fund 17 (target $3.6B) SEC EDGAR Form D
Funds
10| Fund | Vintage | Size | Strategy | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Fund 19 | 2025 | — | Flagship | As of Dec 18, 2025SEC EDGAR Form D |
| New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Fund 18 | 2021 | target $2.9B | Flagship | As of May 24, 2022SEC EDGAR Form D |
| New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Fund 17 | 2019 | target $3.6B | Flagship | As of Mar 1, 2019SEC EDGAR Form D |
| New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Fund 16 | 2017 | target $3B | Flagship | As of Jan 17, 2017SEC EDGAR Form D |
| New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Fund XVI | 2017 | $3.3B | Other | As of 2017Wikipedia |
Show 5 earlier funds
| Fund | Vintage | Size | Strategy | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Opportunity Fund 15 | 2015 | $350M | Opportunity | As of Apr 15, 2015SEC EDGAR Form D |
| New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Fund 15 | 2015 | target $2.5B | Flagship | As of Jan 13, 2015SEC EDGAR Form D |
| New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Fund XV | 2015 | $3.1B | Other | As of 2015Wikipedia |
| New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Fund XIV | 2012 | $2.6B | Other | As of 2012Wikipedia |
| New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Fund XIII | 2010 | $2.5B | Other | As of 2010Wikipedia |
Portfolio
16 totalRecent Investment Activity
13Track record: led 7 and participated in 6 of 13 tracked venture rounds · 10 in the last 12 months · led 3 Series B, 2 Series A, 1 Series C, 1 Series E
| Date | Company | Event | Role | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2026 | Spiko | Series B | Led | $90M | — | New Enterprise Associates (NEA)LeadunverifiedIndex VenturesunverifiedBpifranceunverifiedFlourish VenturesunverifiedWhite Star CapitalunverifiedSpeedinvestShapersBlockwallFrst+5 more | Pulse story |
| Oct 5, 2026 | Clockwork.io | funding round | Participated | $31M | — | Premji InvestLeadunverifiedWing Venture CapitalLeadunverifiedSeligman VenturesLeadunverifiedNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)unverifiede& Capital | The SaaS News |
| Oct 5, 2026 | Namespace Labs | Series B | Participated | $42M | — | Scale Venture PartnersLeadunverified20VC FundThe SaaS News · unverifiedNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)The SaaS News · unverifiedEssenceBurst CapitalOlivier Pomel | SiliconANGLE |
| Oct 4, 2026 | Basalt Health | Series A | Led | $20M | — | Pulse 2.0 | |
| Sep 10, 2026 | Positron AI | Series C | Led | $875M | $5B | New Enterprise Associates (NEA)LeadAtreides ManagementLeadValor Equity PartnersLeadAndra CapitalLeadSemiAnalysis CapitalJim Clark | PR Newswire (company announcement) |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Horizon3.ai | Series E | Led | $250M | $2B+ | TechCrunch | |
| Aug 3, 2026 | P-1 AI | Series A | Led | $50M | — | Pulse story | |
| Jul 20, 2026 | CuspAI | Series B | Led | $450M | $2.6B | Kleiner PerkinsLeadunverifiedNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)LeadunverifiedBezos ExpeditionsunverifiedGlade Brook CapitalunverifiedLux CapitalunverifiedAMD VenturesunverifiedTemasekunverifiedUK Sovereign AI Venture Fund | CNBC |
| Jul 1, 2026 | TwelveLabs | Series B | Led | $100M | — | PYMNTS | |
| Jan 26, 2026 | Synthesia | Series E | Participated | $200M | — | Google Ventures (GV)unverifiedNVenturesunverifiedAccelunverifiedKleiner PerkinsunverifiedNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)unverifiedAir Street CapitalunverifiedEvantic CapitalunverifiedHedosophiaunverifiedPSP GrowthMMC | techmorning.eu |
| Sep 10, 2025 | CuspAI | Series A | Participated | $100M | — | New Enterprise Associates (NEA)unverifiedTemasekunverifiedNVenturesunverifiedSamsung VenturesHyundai Motor Group | SiliconANGLE |
| Apr 3, 2025 | Plaid | Series E | Participated | $575M | $6.1B | Franklin TempletonLeadunverifiedNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)unverifiedRibbit CapitalunverifiedBlackRockunverifiedFidelity Investmentsunverified | CNBC |
| Jan 15, 2025 | Synthesia | Series D | Participated | $180M | — | TechCrunch |
Sector / Stage Activity
By sector (portfolio)
AI infra
9 · 56%
Fintech
2 · 13%
Enterprise SaaS
1 · 6%
Cybersecurity
1 · 6%
Developer tools
1 · 6%
Semiconductors
1 · 6%
AI
1 · 6%
By stage (tracked rounds)
Series B
4 · 31%
Series A
3 · 23%
Series E
3 · 23%
Series C
1 · 8%
Series D
1 · 8%
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Latest Pulse
- Oct 6, 2026Spiko Raises $90M To Make Idle Cash Earn Yield NonstopSpiko raised a $90 million Series B led by New Enterprise Associates to expand its multi-currency tokenized cash fund platform, which already manages about $2.7 billion for more than 10,000 businesses across 25-plus jurisdictions.→
- Oct 5, 2026Clockwork.io Raises $31M To Stop Wasted GPU-HoursClockwork.io raised $31 million to expand its GPU fault-tolerance software after LinkedIn, Together AI and WhiteFiber adopted it to stop losing GPU-hours to hardware failures.→
- Oct 4, 2026Basalt Health Raises $20M Series A Led By NEABasalt Health raised a $20 million Series A led by returning investor NEA to expand its AI platform for post-acute care admissions, a notoriously manual and fragmented corner of healthcare.→
- Sep 28, 2026AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs For $8.2BAMD is paying $8.2 billion in stock for Fei-Fei Li's spatial-intelligence startup World Labs, a direct answer to Nvidia's own world-model push and its pending Hugging Face acquisition.→
- Sep 16, 2026Factory Triples To $5B Valuation In Five MonthsFactory raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation, tripling its price tag from April as the AI coding-agent company pitches full software-development automation rather than autocomplete.→
- Sep 14, 2026Nine US Rounds, $8.7B, Ten Days: September's Real PaceValue Add Pulse totaled the nine largest US venture rounds of September 5-11 and found $8.7 billion committed, with three deals at $1 billion or more.→
- Sep 10, 2026Positron AI Raises $875M At $5B ValuationAI inference-chip startup Positron AI raised $875 million at a $5 billion valuation, more than quadrupling its value in seven months as it races to tape out its memory-heavy Asimov chip on TSMC's N3P process.→
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New Enterprise Associates (NEA) FAQ
How large are New Enterprise Associates (NEA)'s funds?
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) funds Value Add tracks include New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Fund XVI ($3.3B, 2017); New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Opportunity Fund 15 ($350M, 2015); New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Fund XV ($3.1B, 2015); New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Fund XIV ($2.6B, 2012), out of 10 New Enterprise Associates (NEA) funds tracked in total.
What companies has New Enterprise Associates (NEA) invested in?
New Enterprise Associates (NEA)'s portfolio includes Spiko, Clockwork.io, Namespace Labs, Basalt Health, World Labs, Positron AI, and 10 more tracked companies.
Who does New Enterprise Associates (NEA) co-invest with most?
In the rounds Value Add tracks, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) most often invests alongside Index Ventures (3 shared deals), Kleiner Perkins (3 shared deals), 8VC (2 shared deals), Accel (2 shared deals), Acrew Capital (2 shared deals).
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