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Tomo

Co-Investors - Greylock, Bain Capital, NYCA

Ribbon - NFX

Ribbon

P&C Insurance brokerage tech platform empowering insurance agents

Renegade - NFX

Renegade

Modern card issuing that empowers innovators to change the world

Marqeta - NFX

Marqeta

Helps commercial real estate owners and investors get financing

Lev - NFX

AI analytical dashboard for Shopify sellers

Triple Whale - NFX

Triple Whale

Crowdsourced data and services for retailers and brands in LatAm

Co-Investors - Liquid 1 Ventures, Industry Ventures

Zubale - NFX

Zubale

PayEm - NFX

PayEm

Vendor payments network for Fortune 500 companies

Co-Investors - Tekton Ventures, Partech, Amex

Candex - NFX

Candex

Marketplace for buying and selling shares of rental real estate

Landa - NFX

Landa

Small business real estate rent-to-own platform and community

Co-Investors - Initialized Capital, Founders Fund

withco - NFX

withco

Platform for acquiring and growing consumer brands

Forum Brands - NFX

Forum Brands

Capital Markets as a Service for startups

Arc - NFX

Melonn - NFX

Melonn

Marketplace for attorneys to achieve better outcomes

EvenUp - NFX

EvenUp

Consumer shopping marketplace including discounts, cash back and coupons

Karma - NFX

Karma

The operating system for venture-backed companies in LatAm

Co-Investors - a16z, Endeavor, Canary, FJ Labs

Latitud - NFX

Latitud

Provides benefits for independent workers

Collective Benefits - NFX

Collective Benefits

A buy now pay later consumer credit platform network

UME - NFX

Marketplace-sellers freight insurance company

Breeze - NFX

Breeze

Marketplace and delivery network for restaurants

Sauce - NFX

Sauce

Network for payments and invoicing in the nursing home industry

Cherry - NFX

Cherry

Insurance network for US neighborhood businesses

Butter - NFX

Butter

High-yield DeFi savings account for everyday users

Gelt - NFX

Gelt

TermScout - NFX

TermScout

Distributed document network for the freight and supply chain industry

Wave - NFX

Wave

Juno - NFX

Juno

Financing marketplace for disaster recovery

Captain - NFX

Captain

Consumer finance marketplace based on credit improvement ML

Dovly - NFX

Dovly

Co-Investors - Village Global, Harry Stebbings

The.com - NFX

The.com

SaaS and payments platform for creative SMB services

Honeybook - NFX

Honeybook

SaaS and payments platform for SMB's in the housing industry

Ivy - NFX

Headnote - NFX

Headnote

iAngels - NFX

iAngels

We’re Scientist-Founders. We’ve walked in your shoes, from the lab to scaling $B+ techbio companies

Weekly insights for pre-seed and seed stage Founders in Bio, including fundraising tips, pitch decks, growth, hiring and more.

Top [Month] [Year] Resources for Bio Founders - NFX Library

Focus Area

Web3 presents us with the opportunity to remake the Internet into a more creative, lucrative, sustainable, and safe place.

Web3

Weekly insights for pre-seed and seed stage Founders in Web3, including fundraising tips, pitch decks, growth, hiring and more.

Top [Month] [Year] Resources for Web3 Founders - NFX Library

Gaming is about connection. As games founders ourselves, we've been bullish on this market from day 1.

Gaming

Weekly insights for pre-seed and seed stage Founders in Gaming, including fundraising tips, pitch decks, growth, hiring and more.

Top [Month] [Year] Resources for Gaming Founders - NFX Library

Generative Tech is the next step in software. It turns AI into a collaborative partner to unlock a frictionless creative process across industries.

Generative Tech

NFX - Generative Tech

Real estate is in early stages of tech adoption. Pete Flint is an unfair advantage to have in your corner.

Proptech

Weekly insights for pre-seed and seed stage Founders in Proptech, including fundraising tips, pitch decks, growth, hiring and more.

Top [Month] [Year] Resources for Proptech Founders - NFX Library

Millions of consumers are coming online in LatAm, quickly creating massive market opportunities.

LatAm

Weekly insights for pre-seed and seed stage Founders in LatAm, including fundraising tips, pitch decks, growth, hiring and more.

Top [Month] [Year] Resources for LatAm Founders - NFX Library

Israel is a global software powerhouse. Gigi Levy-Weiss partners with founders to build and scale.

Israel

Weekly insights for pre-seed and seed stage Founders in Israel, including fundraising tips, pitch decks, growth, hiring and more.

Top [Month] [Year] Resources for Israel Founders - NFX Library

We're focused on backing the Founders who are building a space economy that makes life better on Earth.

Space

Weekly insights for pre-seed and seed stage Founders in Space, including fundraising tips, pitch decks, growth, hiring and more.

Top [Month] [Year] Resources for Space Founders - NFX Library

Fintech is unlocking enormous value by digitizing and encompassing more of the transaction.

Fintech

Weekly insights for pre-seed and seed stage Founders in Fintech, including fundraising tips, pitch decks, growth, hiring and more.

Top [Month] [Year] Resources for Fintech Founders - NFX Library

We have founded, advised, and invested in 80+ marketplace startups. Including DoorDash, Lyft, Trulia, and Patreon.

Marketplaces

Weekly insights for pre-seed and seed stage Founders in Marketplaces, including fundraising tips, pitch decks, growth, hiring and more.

Top [Month] [Year] Resources for Marketplaces Founders - NFX

Why finance-focused proptech startups will survive the downturn - NFX

It’s the ‘single best time’ to invest in real estate startups - NFX

NFX Managing Partner Pete Flint talks to Thumbtack co-founder &amp; CEO Marco Zappacosta about building billion dollar marketplaces.

NFX Managing Partner Pete Flint talks to Thumbtack co-founder & CEO Marco Zappacosta about building billion dollar marketplaces.

How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built with Marco Zappacosta, Co-Founder &amp; CEO of Thumbtack

Launched in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, Eventbrite has navigated through the pandemic with a refocused strategy and a leaner cost base. In September of 2018, Julia took Eventbrite public, making her among the few women to lead the successful initial public offering of a technology start-up.

Taking Eventbrite Public with Julia & Kevin Hartz

&nbsp; &nbsp; Jeff Lawson, software developer turned CEO of Twilio, creates a new playbook for unleashing the full potential of software developers in any organization, showing how to help management utilize this coveted and valuable workforce to enable growth, solve a wide range of business problems, and drive digital transformation. General Partner at NFX Pete &hellip; Continue reading "Jeff Lawson on Ask Your Developer, with Pete Flint"

Jeff Lawson on Ask Your Developer, with Pete Flint

Pete Flint and Adam Grant discuss Adam's new book, Think Again, about the counterintuitive and competitive advantages of rethinking.

Anti-Patterns of 10x Thinking

Pete Flint (Managing Partner at NFX) separates startup risk into 2 separate buckets - external/market risk and internal/execution risk. Pete breaks down these groups further into several specific categories founders need to consider when evaluating the direction of their company.

Why Founders Should Take More Risk with Pete Flint

Almost every marketplace will face similar problems in one form or another, but I believe our solutions at Trulia were uniquely effective. By sharing our story, I hope to cut through the of vague (and bad) advice out there with a detailed account of how we built a multi-billion dollar, category leading marketplace in under 10 years; a story which, I hope, Founders will find both interesting and useful.

The NFX of Trulia: Building a $3.5 Billion Marketplace

Marketplace Founders commonly overfit their growth strategies to existing playbooks — which dramatically slows their growth.

Growth Frameworks For Your Marketplace

5 mental models distinguish "product-Founders" from successful "Founder-CEOs". Trulia Founder, Pete Flint, breaks them down for Founders everywhere.

How CEOs Think: 5 Mental Models to Shift from Founder to CEO

To help better understand startup timing, we’ve developed a framework we call the Critical Mass Theory of Startups

Why Startup Timing is Everything

In Real Estate 3.0, the very concept of ownership is what’s at play.  Ownership structures and mental models are both changing.

Real Estate 3.0 – The Ownership Revolution

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2-time unicorn founder/operator. Co-founder &amp; former CEO of Trulia, founding team at <a href="http://lastminute.com/">lastminute.com</a>. Born in UK.

2-time unicorn founder/operator · Co-founder & former CEO of Trulia · founding team at lastminute.com · Born in UK

Pete is a General Partner at NFX, a seed-stage venture firm based in San Francisco.

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A new bubble is forming for AI startups, but don't expect a crypto-like pop - NFX

Inside SF's artificial intelligence gold rush - NFX

How generative AI will supercharge productivity - NFX

Keith Rabois & James Currier examine how technology's greatest startups deviate from the standard Silicon Valley "playbook".

How Contrarians Think: The Early Days of Square, Yelp & PayPal with Keith Rabois

Li Jin created the term "The Passion Economy" - and today she analyzes the pros and cons of its underlying currency: attention.

The Passion Economy and Its Hidden Currency

James Currier & Eugene Wei (product lead at Amazon, Hulu, Oculus), discuss the underlying status games that drive us all—in technology and life.

Status Games: Engineering Scarcity in a World of Abundance

A discussion between Intuit Founder Scott Cook and NFX Managing Partner James Currier about the power of network effects.

NFX Podcast: Why Top Founders Understand Network Effects with Scott Cook, Founder of Intuit

You’re going to be asked by investors, key recruits, and journalists for your 5 core metrics.

5 Core Startup Metrics

Facebook stands alone in the depth and variety of network effects they’ve built, even though most go undetected. As a result, their defensibility is unparalleled.

Network Effects Predict the Future of Facebook

We work with our NFX Guild on this mental model for greatness from day 1. Now, we are sharing it with the rest of the startup community.

Find The Fast Moving Water

Network effects have been responsible for 70% of all the value created in technology since 1994. Founders who deeply understand how they work will be better positioned to build category-defining companies.
<em><a href="https://content.nfx.com/teams/james-currier/">James Currier</a> and the NFX Team</em>

Network effects have been responsible for 70% of all the value created in technology since 1994. Founders who deeply understand how they work will be better positioned to build category-defining companies.

The Network Effects Bible

We see the generative tech stack breaking down into 5 layers. As a founder, you have to decide which layer or layers you want to include in your product.