Ryan Nece
Co-founder & Managing Partner, Next Play Capital
As a Super Bowl champion, entrepreneur, media personality, and seasoned tech investor—Ryan Nece has cultivated a unique community of professional athletes, GPs, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and investors. To leverage this powerful ecosystem, he co-founded Next Play Capital in 2014. With $500M in assets under management, Next Play Capital invests in top-tier funds and venture-backed companies across consumer, fintech, and IT/SaaS verticals—including Hippo, Brandless, ByteDance (TikTok), Flexport, Hims, Impossible Foods, Peloton, Rubrik, and Walker & Co.
