Catalytic Capital for
Hard-Tech Founders
Our Mission
NextFab Ventures combines seed capital with hands-on technical and business support to help founders navigate the earliest and riskiest stages of building their companies. Our focus is simple: reduce early technical risk, accelerate product development, and help teams hit the milestones needed to raise their first major financing rounds.
Our Team
We are a team of investors, entrepreneurs, and engineers who have been in the trenches of hard-tech and know what it takes to move from prototype to Series A. We work closely with founders to solve real product and execution challenges, strengthen fundraising strategy, and position companies for long-term, venture-scale growth.
Dr. Evan Malone
President
Todor Raykov
Managing Partner
Matt Bell
Venture Partner
Nick Gallagher
Industrial Designer, Fabricator
(Technical Advisor)
Alex Numann
Lead Mechanical Engineer
(Technical Advisor)
Ruth Schanbacher
Matt Starfield
Senior Electrical Engineer
(Technical Advisor)
Advisors
Jonathan Knauer
Advisor
David Wargo
Advisor
Ben Williams
Advisor