Investing Profile

James Currier(3283)

VCInvestor

General Partner at NFX

nfx.com/team/james-currier/Palo Alto, California

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James Currier's investing connections

196 Investors

Connected to Gigi Levy-Weiss (NFX), Pete Flint (NFX), Satya Patel (Homebrew), and 193 other investors on Signal.

Networks James is a member of

Harvard Business School Network

281 CONNECTIONS

Princeton University Network

91 CONNECTIONS

Battery Ventures Network

27 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

NFX General Partner

Investment Range

$500K - $4.0M

Sweet Spot

$2.0M

Investments On Record

105

Current Fund Size

$450M

James Currier is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Crypto/Web3 (Seed)Games (Seed)Gaming/eSports (Seed)Marketplaces (Seed)Messaging (Seed)Payments (Seed)SaaS (Seed)San Francisco Bay Area SMB Software (Seed)Social Networks (Seed)Web3/Blockchain (Seed)Investors who invested in diverse founders Investors who invested in female founders Investors who were founders

James Currier's Investments On Record (85)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
The.com	Seed RoundJan 2022$4.4M	$4.4M
Co-investors: Harry Stebbings (20VC), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures)
Arc Technologies	Seed RoundJan 2022$11M	$11M
Nuvocargo	Venture RoundDec 2021$21M Series AApr 2021$12M Seed RoundApr 2020$5.3M	$38M
Co-investors: Satya Patel (Homebrew), Antonia Rojas Eing (ALLVP), John Curtius (Tiger Global Management), Sebastián Castro Galnares (Alpha4 ventures), Florian Hagenbuch (Canary), Raymond Tonsing (Caffeinated Capital), Karim Atiyeh
Mammoth Biosciences	Series DSep 2021$150M Series CNov 2020$45M Series AJul 2018$23M Seed RoundMay 2017$120K Pre Seed RoundMay 2017$120K	$260M
Co-investors: Gigi Levy-Weiss (NFX), Pete Flint (NFX), Ursheet Parikh (Mayfield), Bradley Horowitz (Google), Cristina Escoda (Tachyon Ventures), Brook Byers (Kleiner Perkins), Avi Rosenbaum (Tectonic Capital), Jeff Huber (Jeff Huber), Josef Feldman (Tectonic Capital), Harsh Patel (Wireframe Ventures), Larry Chu (Eunoia Capital Partners)
C2i Genomics	Series BApr 2021$100M Series AJun 2020$12M	$110M
Co-investors: Omri Amirav Drory (NFX), Eli Casdin (Casdin Capital)
Aucto	Seed RoundMar 2021$3.7M	$6.7M
Co-investors: Jack Greco
Moov	Seed RoundMar 2021$2M	$76M
Co-investors: Peter Levine (Andreessen Horowitz), Justin Overdorff (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Angela Strange (Andreessen Horowitz), Mark Goldberg (Index Ventures), Gavin Baker (Atreides Management), Sima Gandhi (Creative Juice), Calanthia Mei (The Community Fund), Salil Deshpande (Uncorrelated Ventures), Zach Bratun-Glennon (Gradient Ventures), Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures), Dan Rosen (Commerce VC), Zach Weinberg (Operator Partners), Nat Turner (Operator Partners), Gokul Rajaram
Edgybees	Series AFeb 2021$9.5M Seed RoundNov 2017$5.5M Series ANov 2017$5.5M Pre Seed RoundOct 2017	$22M
Co-investors: Pete Flint (NFX), Gigi Levy-Weiss (NFX), Jeff Crusey (Seraphim Capital), Ron Stern (OurCrowd), Stephen Rodriguez (Refinery Ventures), Michael Falcon (In-Q-Tel), Jonathan Medved (OurCrowd), Noah Pickholtz, Prescott Watson

James Currier's Media (8)

NFX Launches $150 Million Fund to Transform How True Innovators Are Funded

www.nfx.com

70 Percent of Value in Tech is Driven by Network Effects

www.nfx.com

The Intentional Network Effects of Uber

www.nfx.com

The Network Effects Manual: 13 Different Network Effects (and counting)

www.nfx.com

Does Real Identity Matter for Networks?

www.nfx.com

Network Effects Predict the Future of Facebook

www.nfx.com

Network Effects in Biotechnology: Introducing Mammoth Biosciences

www.nfx.com

The Network Effects Bible

www.nfx.com

most interested in

Companies in the SF Bay Area and Israel. Anything with network effects: networks, marketplaces, synthetic biology, urban tech, fintech, Blockchain 2.0, B2B, B2C, consumer products, AR, IOT, connected devices.

not interested in

Tools for ecommerce sites or retailers, adtech, restaurant tech, loyalty programs for local experiences, travel discovery, food delivery, children's savings/money programs, children's video games, things for parents.

James Currier's Experience

Managing Partner NFX Guild2015 - Present

Co-Founder and Chairman Jiff Inc.2010 - 2017

CEO & Co-Founder Ooga Labs2007 - 2014

Co-Founder IronPearl2012 - 2013

Founder and Chairman Medpedia2007 - 2013

Co-Founder and CEO WonderHill2008 - 2011

Founder and CEO Tickle1999 - 2005

Venture Capital Associate Battery Ventures1994 - 1997

Business Development Manager STAR TV1993 - 1994

Venture Capital Associate GTE1990 - 1993

James Currier's Education