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NFX

Founders Gigi Levy Weiss James Currier Pete Flint Stan Chudnovsky

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Total investments 407
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 260
Rounds per year 45.22
Lead investments 69
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 24
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Financial Services
  • Marketplace
  • FinTech
Summary

NFX is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The fund was created by Gigi Levy Weiss, James Currier, Pete Flint, Stan Chudnovsky. Besides them, we counted 10 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The real fund results show that this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in 25-48 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this NFX works on 24 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from NFX is 50-100 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the NFX, startups are often financed by iAngels, 500 Startups, Y Combinator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Precursor Ventures, Pelion Venture Partners, FJ Labs. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by iAngels, Precursor Ventures, Y Combinator.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ribbon, Lyric, Outdoorsy. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Information Technology. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ZipBio

Biotechnology
Genetics
Therapeutics
$4M05 Sep 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

DRiP

Blockchain
Service Industry
$8M04 Sep 2024 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Blitzy

Software
$4M03 Sep 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Talus Bio

Biotechnology
$11M20 Aug 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

Pentagon Games

Blockchain
$6M08 Aug 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

enso

$6M09 Jul 2024 New York, New York, United States

TwoStep Therapeutics

$6M25 Jun 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Sagetap

Information Technology
Market Research
Software
$6M28 May 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Sagetap

Information Technology
Market Research
Software
$6M06 May 2024 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Ribbon Raises $150 Million to Expand Digital Homebuying Platform Nationally

– Ribbon, the homeownership company, announces today it has secured $150 million, inclusive of $75 million in Series C equity financing and $75 million in additional working capital.
– The Series C was led by Greenspring Associates, with participation from existing investors Greylock, Bain Capital Ventures, NFX, Nyca, Thomvest and Jake Seid.
– This investment will enable more than $10 billion in home transactions annually, and fuel Ribbon’s swift expansion into new states.

PayEm Raises $27M In Funding

– PayEm is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based global spend and procurement platform for high-growth and multinational organizations.
– The company raised $27M in funding.
– The round consists of a $7M seed funding round led by Pitango First and NFX with participation by LocalGlobe and Fresh Fund, followed by a $20M Series A led by Glilot+, the early growth fund of Glilot Capital Partners.

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Total investments 407
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 45.22
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 69
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 24
Group Appearance index 0.65

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ZipBio

Biotechnology
Genetics
Therapeutics
$4M05 Sep 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

DRiP

Blockchain
Service Industry
$8M04 Sep 2024 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Blitzy

Software
$4M03 Sep 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Talus Bio

Biotechnology
$11M20 Aug 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

Pentagon Games

Blockchain
$6M08 Aug 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

enso

$6M09 Jul 2024 New York, New York, United States

TwoStep Therapeutics

$6M25 Jun 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Sagetap

Information Technology
Market Research
Software
$6M28 May 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Sagetap

Information Technology
Market Research
Software
$6M06 May 2024 San Francisco, California, United States
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