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Next-generation sequencing

Next-generation sequencing (NGS), also called massive parallel sequencing, is a family of laboratory technologies that decode millions to billions of DNA or RNA fragments simultaneously, enabling whole-genome, exome, and clinical sequencing.

Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

The Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, or NMSSM, is a supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model that adds a gauge-singlet superfield, dynamically generating the Higgs mass term.

Next.js

Next.js is an open-source React framework for building full-stack web applications, developed by Vercel. It provides server rendering, file-based routing, and data-loading primitives, and is among the most widely used React frameworks.

Nextcloud

Nextcloud is a free, open-source, self-hosted content collaboration platform for file sharing, document editing, and video chat, launched in 2016 as a fork of ownCloud.

NextCure, Inc.

NextCure, Inc. was a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company in Beltsville, Maryland, founded in 2015, which developed antibody-drug conjugates for cancer and agreed in 2026 to merge with Avere Therapeutics.

Nextdata (company)

Nextdata is a San Francisco data-mesh startup founded in 2022 by Zhamak Dehghani, who created the data mesh concept at ThoughtWorks in 2018; its Nextdata OS product builds autonomous, containerized data products, backed by a $12M 2023 seed round from Greycroft and Acrew Capital.

NextDecade

NextDecade Corporation is a Houston, Texas-based energy company developing natural gas liquefaction and export infrastructure, centered on its Rio Grande LNG facility near Brownsville, Texas.

Nextdoor

Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is a hyperlocal social network of verified neighborhoods, launched in 2011, public via SPAC in 2021, with 22.9 million weekly users, 1 in 3 U.S. households, and 2025 revenue of $258 million.

Nextech Crossover

Nextech Crossover, formally Nextech Crossover I SCSP, is a Luxembourg-domiciled venture capital fund formed in 2021, managed from Zurich-based Nextech Invest, which raised about $208 million from 94 investors.

Nexter Munitions

Nexter Munitions, renamed KNDS Ammo France, is the French subsidiary of KNDS and France's only manufacturer of medium and large caliber cannon ammunition, based near Bourges.

NextEra Energy

NextEra Energy, Inc., formerly FPL Group, is an American energy company headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida, owning the utility Florida Power & Light and the developer NextEra Energy Resources.

NextFlex

NextFlex is America's Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Institute, a San Jose, California consortium founded in 2015 that advances U.S. manufacturing of flexible hybrid electronics for defense and commercial uses.

NextG Networks

NextG Networks was a San Jose, California company that built shared fiber-fed antenna networks for wireless carriers, acquired by Crown Castle for about $1 billion in 2012.

NextGen Venture Partners

NextGen Venture Partners, formerly the angel network NextGen Angels, is a Baltimore, Maryland venture capital firm founded in 2012 whose funds have raised about $115 million.

NextGenerationEU

NextGenerationEU (NGEU) is a temporary European Union recovery instrument, agreed in July 2020, financing the COVID-19 recovery with €750 billion raised through common EU borrowing, split between grants and loans.

Nexthink

Nexthink is a Swiss-American software company founded in 2004 as a spin-off of EPFL in Lausanne, selling a digital employee experience platform called Nexthink Infinity.

NextPoint Therapeutics, Inc.

NextPoint Therapeutics is a Cambridge, Massachusetts biotechnology company developing immuno-oncology therapies against the B7-H7 (HHLA2) checkpoint pathway, founded by Gordon Freeman and XingXing Zang and backed by MPM Capital.

Nextpower

Nextpower, formerly Nextracker, is an American energy technology company founded by Dan Shugar in 2013 and ranked the world's largest solar tracker supplier through 2025.

NextRNA Therapeutics

NextRNA Therapeutics was a Cambridge, Massachusetts biotechnology company, founded in 2021 as a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute spinout, that developed small-molecule drugs targeting long non-coding RNA–protein interactions.

NextSilicon

NextSilicon is an Israeli semiconductor company in Tel Aviv, founded by Elad Raz in 2017, that builds the Maverick-2 software-defined dataflow accelerator for high-performance computing and AI workloads.

NextStar Energy

NextStar Energy is a battery manufacturer in Windsor, Ontario, founded in 2022 as a Stellantis and LG Energy Solution joint venture and wholly owned by LG since February 2026.

NeXTstation

The NeXTstation is a Unix workstation sold by NeXT Computer from 1990 to 1993 as a slimmer, lower-cost desktop alternative to the cube-shaped NeXTcube, announced by Steve Jobs in 1990.

NeXTSTEP

NeXTSTEP was a Unix-based, object-oriented operating system developed by NeXT Computer and first released in 1989; Apple used it as the foundation for Mac OS X.

Nexttel

Nexttel, the brand of Viettel Cameroon SA, is a joint venture between Vietnam's Viettel and Cameroonian businessman El Hadji Baba Danpullo, and Cameroon's third mobile operator.

NextView Ventures

NextView Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by David Beisel, Lee Hower, and Robert Go, investing in pre-seed and seed-stage startups across North America.

Nexus 5

The Nexus 5 is an Android smartphone developed by LG Electronics in partnership with Google, released in October 2013 as the first phone to ship with Android 4.4 KitKat.

Nexus 5X

The Nexus 5X is an Android smartphone built by LG for Google, announced September 29, 2015 as the smaller, cheaper companion to the Nexus 6P, starting at $379.

Nexus 6

The Nexus 6, also known as the Motorola Nexus 6, is an Android phablet by Google and Motorola unveiled in October 2014 as the first device with Android 5.0 Lollipop.

Nexus 6P

The Nexus 6P is a 5.7-inch Android phablet developed by Google and Huawei, announced in September 2015 as the first Nexus phone with an all-metal body.

Nexus 7 (2013)

The Nexus 7 (2013) is a 7-inch Android tablet made by Asus for Google and released in July 2013, with a 1920×1200 display and Qi wireless charging.