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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

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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

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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

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Rising Stars in VC 2022: Morgan Beller - NFX

Stablecoin Network Effects - NFX

Vitalik Buterin and Morgan Beller talk about longevity, chocolate, the Moon vs. Mars, that SF should be as big as Hong Kong, and more.

Vitalik Buterin on Space, Longevity, Mars & More (The "B-Side")

Vitalik’s unique points of view on politics, crypto, Americanism, GameStop, Wall Street Bets, Tesla, China, privacy, and more.

Vitalik Buterin on The Revolt of the Public (The "A-Side")

Web3 is changing more than technology and culture, it's also changing how we lead. NFX's Morgan Beller breaks down the new leadership skills in web3.

The 5 New Leadership Skills of Great Web3 Founders

We've seen 9 characteristics that make startup hiring in web3 different. Whether they present an advantage or a vulnerability is for you to decide.

Why Web3 Hiring Is Unique

Morgan Beller examines why community building is one of the most important skill sets for web 3.0 founders across all industries.

Building A "Community-First" Company

FTX’s demise dents, but doesn’t break the promise of crypto.

Crypto Is A Tool That Was Exploited.

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Twitter

LinkedIn

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General Partner

Head of Strategy

Corporate Development

Corporate Development & Strategy

Partner, Deal Team

Co-founder of Diem≋ (fka Libra)

Co-founder of Diem≋(fka Libra) · DOG mom · Pianist · Forbes 30 under 30 ·

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

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Micha Kaufman, Founder & CEO of Fiverr, gives us access to the early days at Fiverr and what startup lessons he learned from idea to IPO.

Fiverr's Road to 797% Growth: The Decision Frameworks Behind Their Success

Only a few months ago did we start to see real shifts in hiring strategy. Founders and CEOs need to update their mental models now.

7 Mental Shifts For Hiring Now

Waze's former CEO reveals key insights for building networks from nothing.

The Insider Story of Waze

Power is shifting back to the users in web3 gaming. We are starting to see fundamental changes to the ownership of valuable in-game assets.

2 Changes to Virtual Goods in Web3 Gaming

In this NFX whiteboarding session, Gigi Levy-Weiss, Managing Partner at NFX, explains what it takes to be a strong startup CEO.

Whiteboard Breakdown: What Makes A Strong Startup CEO

NFX is making public the fundraising playbooks we share with our portfolio Founders.

The Non-Obvious Guide to Fundraising

This is a challenging climate for Founders, and for your relationships with your employees, customers, co-founders – and your investors. Your relationship with your investors is always critical to your mission and success, but perhaps even more so right now, during a macroeconomic crisis. 

There’s an untold amount of upside in learning how to navigate and uplevel these relationships, in the good times and in bad.

There’s an untold amount of upside in learning how to navigate and uplevel these relationships, in the good times and in bad.

Uplevel Your Founder-VC Relationship

The Founder and CEO of Wix teams up with NFX to deconstruct the systems Wix used to grow into a $B+ company with 5,000+ employees.

The Systems of Elite CEOs: Setting the Stage for Billion-Dollar Growth

Product love is unmistakable. But it doesn't just happen. It's engineered. You can create product-led growth with a three-part framework.

The 3 Phases of Product-Led Growth: The Triple Whale Method

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General Partner 

Founder and CEO 

Founder and active Chairman

CEO 

President, Western Europe, Central and Latin America

4-time founder/operator. Founding CEO of Playtika. Head of NFX Israel.

4-time founder/operator · Founding CEO of Playtika · Head of NFX Israel · 

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

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Gigi Levy-Weiss

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.
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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.

Generative Tech Market Map and 5-Layer Tech Stack

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)

James-p-500 - NFX

Founding Partner 

Co-Founder and Chairman

CEO & Co-Founder

Co-Founder and CEO

Venture Capital Associate

5-time founder. Expert on network effects.

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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