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Read techniques and frameworks for Bio, Web3, Gaming, Proptech, LatAm, Space, Fintech and Marketplace companies. NFX is a venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed and seed startups.

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We're at the beginning of a landmark moment for longevity companies. Today, we're releasing the NFX deep dive into this emerging network.

The Future of Longevity: The Battle Against Human Aging (An NFX Documentary)

In academia, no one prepares you for starting a company. These are the key skills that scientist-Founders need to hit the ground running.

What I Wish I Knew as a Scientist-Founder

Scientific thinking is a superpower. And more founders need to learn it. These are the mental models that make scientists great Founders.

A Scientific Approach To Your Company (And Your Life)

Society has a choice: spend trillions on sickness and death, or invest trillions in longer life. Here's why longevity is the biggest market in the world.

The Business Case for Longevity

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Entrepreneur &amp; CEO @TwistBioscience. Fascinated by synbio and genetics.

As an early pioneer in the high-throughput synthesis and sequencing of DNA, Dr. LeProust is disrupting the process of gene synthesis to enable the exponential growth of synthetic biology applications in multiple fields including medicine, DNA data storage, agricultural biology, and industrial chemicals.

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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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General Partner 

Founder and CEO 

Founder and active Chairman

CEO 

President, Western Europe, Central and Latin America

4-time founder/operator. Founder 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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Founder &amp; operator turned investor, lover of brains, passionate about helping founders build life changing technologies for patients.

General Partner

Founding Partner

Head of Corporate Development

Founder & CEO

Postdoctoral Associate

2-time scientist-founder. Founder at Genome Compiler, founding CEO of Tech.bio. Head of NFX Bio.

2-time scientist-founder · Genome Compiler · Tech.bio · 

Omri Amirav-Drory, Ph.D. is a GP at NFX Bio. He is a scientist and an operator who has founded, scaled, and invested in some of today’s most important new tech bio companies.

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Mammoth Bioscience's CEO and Cofounder walks through his Founder journey from early idea to freshly minted unicorn status.

A Mammoth Becomes A Unicorn: Inside a Scientist-Founder’s Journey from Pre-Seed to Series D

If we can live to 150 years old, human healthspan goes exponential. We need ambitious founders, and hardcore longevity to get there.

The Race to 160

Great platforms should make great assets. If you're strategic about business development, your bioplatform should be able to fuel itself.

Why Great Bioplatforms Will Always Win

These are the things that people tell you (and some that they don't) about fundraising, hiring, and VC in Techbio.

A Scientific Approach to VC

We’re looking for anomalies. Edges. Infinite markets. Fearless founders. 

Most of our investments are in the focus areas below. But if your company is different or other, come talk to us – we’re in the best ideas business.

Focus Area

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

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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

AI Agents are making services fast, cheap, and accessible. It's going to supercharge SMBs – a massive section of the economy.

Guided AI Agents: Turbocharging the SMB

AI is creating a massive opportunity to unbundle horizontal SaaS companies. We're on the brink of the "verticalization of everything."

The Verticalization of Everything

Generative AI is like water. The phrase was borne out of frustration, but it opens up a new world of AI playbooks.

AI Is Like Water

What city you live in. Who you date or marry. Which job you choose. What clothes you wear.We all think we make these choices ourselves. It certainly feels like we’re in full control. But it turns out that our choices — both in our startups and in our lives — are more constrained than we think. The unseen hand in all them is the networks that surround us and the powerful math they exert on us.

Revealing the Unseen Forces That Guide Your Life &nbsp; What city you live in. Who you date or marry. Which job you choose. What clothes you wear. We all think we make these choices ourselves. It certainly feels like we’re in full control. But it turns out that our choices — both in our startups and in &hellip; Continue reading "Your Life is Driven by Network Effects"

Your Life is Driven by Network Effects

Software and labor are becoming one market. We're seeing an "AI workforce" that will transform the services industry.

The AI Workforce is Here: The Rise of a New Labor Market

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)

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Read 300+ essays, videos, podcasts that give Founders unfair advantages in hiring, fundraising, and growth. 170k+ startups get weekly insights from NFX venture capital firm.

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Videos

Watch 30+ videos from NFX on hiring, fundraising, and growth for pre-seed and seed Founders. [Subscribers] startups get weekly insights from NFX venture capital firm.

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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.
<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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See 200+ resources, frameworks, and guides from NFX to help pre-seed and seed Founders build iconic businesses.

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Network Effects

See 30+ resources on network effects for pre-seed and seed Founders. Companies with the strongest types of network effects built into their core business model tend to win – and win big.

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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

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

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")

Morgan Beller

Read Morgan’s techniques and frameworks for Web3, Space, and Fintech companies. Morgan is the co-founder of Libra and was Head of Strategy for Novi, Facebook’s digital wallet for the Libra payment system.

[Year] Insights for Seed Founders by Morgan Beller - NFX Library

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Gabi Shalel is an amazing games founder - he understands the type of innovation, fast iteration, and quality required to create a successful games company. These things are also very valuable for every founder, every startup.

Gaming Superpowers for Non-Game Founders with Gabi Shalel (Plarium) & Gigi Levy-Weiss

One sector has an unfair number of elite product minds. These 9 habits are their underlying behaviors that result in product success.

The 9 Habits of Ultra-Fast Iterations

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

The winning strategy for games Founders is to evolve what worked well in web2 games with the new capabilities in web3.

The crypto drumbeat for more than a decade has been: “Out with the Old Guard, in with the New.”It makes sense. Looking at the big picture, the 2008 financial crisis was triggering. People called for a new global reserve currency which not only spawned a cultural movement, but also an entirely new financial system with DeFi. Bitcoin and web3 in particular sparked a movement to overturn existing centers of power.

Web3 Gaming Is An Evolution, Not A Revolution - NFX

Web3 Gaming Is An Evolution, Not A Revolution

We've always been bullish on building and investing in games. Now we see 5 trends, including generative AI, shaping the future of gaming.

The Next Era of Gaming and AI

The Next Era of Gaming and AI: And Why We’re (Even More) Bullish on Games

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

The team at C2i Genomics is combining cutting-edge genomics and sophisticated AI to provide the world’s first whole-genome cancer intelligence platform, transforming the way cancer is monitored and treated.

Why C2i is the World's First Platform for Cancer Intelligence

We started NFX Bio as a home for Scientist-Founders working at the intersection of tech and bio to solve humanity's biggest challenges.

NFX Bio: Investing in Scientist-Founders from the Very Beginning with Omri Amirav-Drory

The 6 characteristics we look for in computational biology companies.

A technology revolution is underway as software merges with biotech. It will touch every industry, and it just might save us from ourselves.

The Next Industrial Revolution: Computational Biology & Bioplatforms

Omri Amirav-Drory, Ph.D.

Read Omri’s essays as he explores the latest innovation in biology and techbio. Omri is a scientist and an operator who has founded, scaled, and led a successful acquisition by Twist Bioscience.

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Josie Cayuga - NFX

NFX's Secret Weapon

Bio At NFX, Josie and Cayuga lead Tokenomics and Protocol Design. True Swiss Army knives, the duo also work paw in paw with our crypto portfolio founders. Interests zk-BARKs, $DOGE, $SHIB, proto-danksharding, touching grass

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