OUR MISSION
EMPOWERING STARTUP SUCCESS
Your Pathway to a Successful Fundraise
NEXT & My NEXT Raise are excited to bring you an end to end legal and fundraising platform to get investor ready, identify and meet investors, and successfully close your round of funding with seasoned startup attorneys.
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DESIGNED WITH AN ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET
Experienced Lawyers for Startups
As startup lawyers, we know takes a special type of person to become an entrepreneur. Someone with determination, passion, confidence and vision.
In building your startup you will encounter expected and unanticipated challenges including fundraising, equity and growth. It’s essential to surround yourself with trusted legal partners who understand the journey you will face and are able to guide you with experience and insight.
That’s where NEXT comes in. NEXT powered by Shulman Rogers was built by startup lawyers with deep experience acting as general counsel for a wide variety of startups. As startup lawyers, we’re dedicated to helping our clients achieve success.
In addition to the NEXT practice group for startups, Shulman Rogers offers a full range of legal services, including corporate law, real estate, litigation, estate planning, employment, intellectual property, family law and more. Founded in 1972, Shulman Rogers is one of the most respected law firms in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area. The firm and its highly skilled attorneys are committed to client service, a relentless focus on problem-solving and an underlying compassion for its clients and community.
FULL LIFE CYCLE SOLUTIONS
NEXT’s innovative and technology-enabled model helps your business thrive across all stages of growth, through:
- Predictable and reasonable fixed price general counsel legal packages
- Sophisticated legal representation from seasoned attorneys
- A client-centric focus that is collaborative, transparent and efficient
What Our Clients Say
“NEXT has made raising outside capital affordable and eliminated the unpredictable costs of the fundraising process. I found the Legal Fundraising Package included strategic guidance on managing the fundraising process and contained all the documents I needed to handle my equity round at a fraction of the cost of traditional law firm hourly rate pricing.”
Andrew Hoppin,Co-Founder and CEO of CoverUs
“As a first-time entrepreneur, I found NEXT to be a great value not only for the startup legal services I needed but for the connections to the business service providers and other ecosystem partners, too.”
Dale Nirvani Pfeifer,CEO, Goodworld
"Since our earliest days, Shulman Rogers has been a trusted and capable partner for Doctor.com. Their NEXT platform afforded us access to a full range of legal talent and services for significantly less than the cost of hiring an in-house general counsel. This was particularly valuable in the early years when budgets were tight and our legal needs were diverse. Since then, NEXT has been able to scale with us as we’ve grown, supporting the business through multiple financings and ultimately a successful exit."
Andrei ZimilesCo-Founder and CEO of Doctor.com
"NEXT has been there every step of the way to help guide us through our seed round. The team has been fantastic!""
Julie MelnickFounder/CEO of Sky Squad
“As a serial entrepreneur, venture capital partner, and startup attorney over the past 25 years, I know first-hand how difficult it is for a startup to obtain high-quality legal services at reasonable, predictable rates, and where attorneys are committed, long-term partners in empowering startup success. In building NEXT we believed there had to be a better way.”
Anthony Millin,
Founder and Chair of NEXT
“As a serial entrepreneur, venture capital partner, and startup attorney over the past 25 years, I know first-hand how difficult it is for a startup to obtain high-quality legal services at reasonable, predictable rates, and where attorneys are committed, long-term partners in empowering startup success. In building NEXT we believed there had to be a better way.”
