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Helps the daring build legendary companies, from idea to IPO and beyond.

Twice a year YC invests $500,000 per company in a large number of startups. They work intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

Led by Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn Exec Chairman. Next Play coaches and invests in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations.

Fund based in London, San Francisco and Geneva, helping entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into transformative international businesses. Index covers every investment stage, from earliest seed through to explosive growth.

Rex focuses on early-stage and growth investments in consumer technology businesses. He’s particularly interested in online communication, Gen Z, commerce, marketplaces, and the future of work. Prior to Index, Rex worked at Airtable, a no-code platform letting anyone create with software. Previously, Rex was an investor at TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, TPG’s global growth equity and social impact funds, where he oversaw the launch of TPG’s impact measurement tool at the World Economic Forum. He has run creator marketing for Calm and worked on social innovation policy for the California Governor’s Office. Rex was a Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University, where he received a graduate degree in business, and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Economics.  Rex writes Digital Native, a weekly blog about consumer technology.

Dylan Field is the CEO / Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world.

Executive Chairman @LinkedIn, founding partner @NextPlayVC, founding LP at Concrete Rose Capital, founder of The Compassion Project.

Co-Founder, former CEO of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB). and online money transfer service, Xoom (IPO 2013, acquired by PayPal 2015 for $1.1B). Experienced Early-stage investor having invested in multiple unicorn companies such as Paypal, OpenSea and AirBnB, among others.