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La Haus

Tech-enabled freight forwarding network for the Mexico-US trade corridor

Co-Investor - Tiger Global, QED, YC, ALLVP

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Nuvocargo

Crowdsourced data and services for retailers and brands in LatAm

Co-Investors - Liquid 1 Ventures, Industry Ventures

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Zubale

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Melonn

The operating system for venture-backed companies in LatAm

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

Latitud - NFX

Latitud

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Clubbi

B2B Marketplace and financing for food services in LatAm

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FLOKI

A buy now pay later consumer credit platform network

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The world's top Scientist-Founders call NFX their home.  We've walked in your shoes, all the way from the lab to founding and 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

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Network effects are the lifeblood of web3. Every new project, protocol, and DAO is a network. At NFX, networks are our life's work.

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 far more than just games - it's about connection and creativity. 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

Real estate is by far the largest asset class in the world, yet still 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

World-class Founders and 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

With more startups per capita than anywhere else in the world, Israel is a global software powerhouse. Head of NFX Israel and 4x founder/operator Gigi Levy-Weiss partners with founders to build momentum 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 startups and fintech-enabled marketplaces are 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

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

With unemployment expected to reach 20-30%, on par with the Great Depression, the COVID-19 crisis heralds a once-in-a-century moment in the job market.

The New Generation of Labor Marketplaces and the Future of Work

Pete Flint, Founding CEO at Trulia and NFX Partner, is making public his playbooks for building world-class teams.

4 Signs You’re Building A World-Class Team

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

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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.

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

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Pete Flint

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Investing @NFX | Founder @jupiter. Alum @stanfordgsb, @ycombinator, @amazon

Anna is a Principal at NFX focused on investing in LatAm, U.S., and Europe. She is a former founder and big-tech operator with 9+ years of experience across marketplaces, supply chain, logistics and consumer tech.

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Anna Piñol

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

James Currier is making public the "8 Motivation Clusters" that cause people to share—to help Founders engineer virality into their products.

Why People Share: The Psychology Behind "Going Viral"

Founder-market fit is about more than just industry expertise or experience. NFX Managing Partner James Currier breaks down the four dimensions that contribute to Founder-Market Fit.

Most of the discussions around “Founder-Market Fit” tend to focus on the more tangible concept of industry expertise. In my years as a Founder and investor, I’ve found that there’s a lot more to it. We see four dimensions that contribute to Founder-Market Fit: Obsession Founder Story Personality Experience ‍ Let’s break it down. 1. &hellip; Continue reading "The 4 Signs of Founder-Market Fit"

The 4 Signs of Founder-Market Fit

The unseen hand in all of our decisions in life is the networks that surround us and the powerful math they exert on us.

Your Life Is Driven By Network Effects [Guide]

The 16 Network Effects &amp; How They Actually Work

The 16 Network Effects & How They Actually Work

The Network Effects Manual: 16 Different Network Effects (and counting)

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

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5-time founder. Expert on network effects.

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

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