Network effect businesses! NFX focuses on businesses that have - or want to have - network effects in their core. This can be in any field - consumer, SMB, Enterprise, Fintech, Healthcare or govtech; and on any platform - web & mobile but also AR/VR, Blockchain, 3D printing, AI, Robotics and others. Top founders with huge ideas!
Not Interested In
Currently not focusing on non-network effect businesses and specifically not telecom equipment, semiconductors and life sciences.
Hans Tung
Investing in FinTech (& Financials services) &bul...
Los Angeles , San Fra..., U.S.A. - China
Previous Investments
• Trash:
(Seed Round)
• Prynt:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Wish:
$500000000 (Series F)
• Wish:
$50000000 (Series C)
• Wish:
$19000000 (Series B)
• AgVoice:
(Seed Round)
• FlightCar:
$20700000 (Series B)
• Wiselike:
$1300000 (Seed Round)
• Musical.ly:
$16600000 (Series B)
• Airbnb:
$1500000000 (Series E)
• Zimi:
$15000000 (Series B)
• More Design:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Misfit Wearables:
$40000000 (Series C)
• Totspot:
$1800000 (Seed Round)
• Curse:
$16000000 (Series B)
• Xiaomi:
$216000000 (Series C)
• Xiaomi:
$90000000 (Series B)
• Xiaomi:
$41000000 (Series A)
• Forgame:
$68800000 (Series A)
• Fanli:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Domob:
$20000000 (Series B)
• eHi Car Rental:
$70000000 (Series C)
• eHi Car Rental:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Hellobike:
$1000000000 (Later stage VC)
• Lemonade:
$120000000 (Later stage VC)
• Farmers Business Network:
$110000000 (Later stage VC)
Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Future Of Work • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobility
Description
Partner at Index Ventures
Martin Mignot serves as a Partner at Index Ventures. He also serves as Advisory Board Member at TheFamily. He specialises in SaaS, marketplaces, bitcoin and mobile. He worked on 50+ transactions to date, including Assistly, Auxmoney, BaseCRM, Cloud.com, Codecademy, DimDim, Factual, Farfetch, Flipboard, Funding Circle, Gluster, HouseTrip, Just Eat, Lookout, Nasty Gal, Notonthehighstreet, onefinestay, PeoplePerHour, TrustPilot, Soluto and SoundCloud. He is actively looking after Index's investments in Algolia, Capitaine Train, Drivy, Rad and Swiftkey. Prior to joining Index, Martin was in the TMT team at UBS Investment Bank and cofounded the beauty subscription business Boudoir Prive (acquired by Joliebox/Birchbox) and a student web radio service.
Motti Vaknin
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Michael Brehm is a Co-Founder at Rebate Networks. Brehm is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Redstone Digital. Prior to this he was Executive Director of studiVZ, at the time Germany's largest social network. Before starting in the technology sector he began his career at Merrill Lynch in the M&A division. He obtained his Business degree from WHU (Germany) and EGADE (Mexico) and also studied at CEIBS (China) where he learned Mandarin. Alongside being a Partner at Redstone Michael is an active angel investor in more than 20 companies like: Kreditech, Atheneum Partners or Inventorum.
Natty Zola
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Chicago , Ann Arbor ,..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Branch Messenger:
$10000000 (Early stage VC)
• BaseHQ:
$2560000 (Seed Round)
• ScaleFactor, Inc.:
$2500000 (Seed Round)
• Learn to Live, Inc.:
$1000000 (Seed Round)
• Savitude Inc:
$325000 (Early stage VC)
• It's By U:
$323000 (Other)
• Spruce:
$170000 (Other)
• Intelligems:
$120000 (Pre Seed Round)
• Haekka:
$120000 (Pre Seed Round)
• treet:
$120000 (Pre Seed Round)
• CometChat:
(Pre Seed Round)
• Fiveable:
$620000 (Seed Round)
• Stateless:
$1500000 (Seed Round)
• Precog:
$750000 (Venture Round)
• Fulfilld.io:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Freeplay:
$3000000 (Pre Seed)
• Modern Adventure:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Fulfilld:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Fulfilld:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Stylo:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Bean:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• Showplace:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Showplace:
(Seed)
• Improovy:
(Seed)
• Scholars:
(Seed)
• Snug:
(Seed)
• Delfina:
(Pre Seed)
• Kahilla:
(Seed)
• Onward:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Onward:
(Seed+)
• Onward:
(Venture Round)
• Caddy:
(Seed)
• Helio Home:
(Seed)
• Benny:
(Pre Seed)
• Cured:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Cured:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Cured:
(Venture Round)
• Milk Moovement:
$3200000 (Seed)
• Zed:
(Pre Seed)
• Honest Jobs:
$1300000 (Pre-Seed)
• TiLT:
$700000 (Seed)
• Optera:
(Seed)
• Reema Health:
(Pre Seed)
• Warmly,:
(Seed)
• PingPong:
(Pre Seed)
• River Health:
(Seed)
• Curu:
(Seed)
• Fitco:
$300000 (Seed)
• FundBoard:
(Venture Round)
• StackHawk:
(Seed+)
• StackHawk:
(Venture Round)
• TermScout:
$370000 (Pre Seed)
• The Accessory Junkie:
(Pre Seed)
• Rescripted:
$120000 (Pre Seed)
• VideoPeel:
(Pre Seed)
• Warmly:
$120000 (Pre Seed)
• Beanstalk:
(Pre Seed)
• Keys:
$300000 (Pre Seed)
• Gondola:
(Pre Seed)
• Sympatic:
$120000 (Pre Seed)
• soona:
(Seed+)
• soona:
(Venture Round)
• AirSpace Link:
(Seed)
• AirSpace Link:
(Venture Round)
• Parallax:
(Seed)
• Landline:
(Seed+)
• Getro:
(Seed)
• Base HQ:
(Seed)
• Joust:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Onward Care:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Ordermark:
(Series B)
• Ordermark:
(Series A)
• Zestful:
(Seed)
• Zestful:
(Venture Round)
• Halp:
(Seed)
• Pana:
(Series A)
• Veho:
(Seed)
• Apostrophe:
(Series A)
• AVVAY:
(Seed 1)
• Pikup:
(Venture Round)
• Type W:
(Venture Round)
• Sozie:
(Venture Round)
• To The Market:
(Venture Round)
• Staffless:
(Venture Round)
• Flashfood:
(Venture Round)
• ProcessBolt:
(Venture Round)
• Clicktivated:
(Venture Round)
• Cooklist:
(Venture Round)
• Learn to Live:
(Series A)
• Learn to Live:
(Seed)
• inspectorio:
(Series A)
• inspectorio:
(Seed)
• Structural:
(Seed)
• Local Crate:
(Seed)
• BYBE:
(Seed)
• StoryXpress:
(Seed)
• Upsie:
(Venture Round)
• ShopTurn:
(Venture Round)
• AirTailor:
(Seed)
• Kokko:
(Venture Round)
• SpotCrowd:
(Venture Round)
• Find Me A Shoe:
(Venture Round)
• Savitude:
(Venture Round)
• ScaleFactor:
(Seed)
• AddStructure:
$1900000 (Seed)
• CANDL:
$120000 (Pre Seed)
• Nexosis:
(Seed)
• MakersBloks:
(Venture Round)
• Itsbyu:
(Venture Round)
• SpruceBot:
(Venture Round)
• Init.ai:
$100000 (Seed)
• Vidgrid:
(Seed)
• Kipsu:
(Seed)
• Kapta:
(Seed)
Natty Zola
Chicago - Ann Arbor - St. Paul - Detroit - Milwaukee - Madison - Indianapolis - Minneapolis - Provo - Salt Lake City - Denver - Boulder - Colorado, U.S.A.
We focus more on the insight of the founders than our insights, so we're most excited to learn how you think the world should be different and how we can help you make that change happen.
Not Interested In
Startups without a connection to The Rockies and The North regions of the US.
Managing Director @techstars, Founder of @everlater. Explorer, mountain biker, foreign accent lover, optimist, evitcepsreP, new dad #givefirst.
Jerry Yang
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Jerry Yang serves as Founding Partner at AME Cloud Ventures. Yang also serves as Special Partner at Neotribe Ventures. He serves as Investor of BirdEye. He also serves as an Independent Director at Workday and Advisor at Radius. He is the Founding Partner at AME Cloud Ventures. He serves as Board Observer and Senior Advisor at Didi Kuaidi. Since March 2012, he has worked with and invests in technology entrepreneurs as the founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures, his innovation investment firm. He is also a co-founder of Yahoo! Inc., where he served as a director from March 1995 to January 2012, and as Chief Executive Officer from June 2007 to January 2009. He also led Yahoo!'s investments in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group Holding Limited, and he is a currently a director of Alibaba Group, where he has served on the board from October 2005 to January 2012 and from September 2014 to the present. He is also a director of Lenovo, Inc. where he has served on the board since November 2014. From July 2000 to November 2012, he was a member of Cisco Systems, Inc.'s Board of Directors, and he was a director of Yahoo! Japan from January 1996 to January 2012. He also is a director of various private companies and foundations. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where he served as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees from June 2005 until September 2016. He is also an Angel Investor. He serves as Board Member at Docker
Tony Corbin
Investing in BioTech • Businesses Solutions ...
Menlo Park , San Fran..., U.S.A. - Israel - Europe: Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Greece, Portugal, Sweden, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Slovakia, Norway, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Icelan
Previous Investments
• Vayyar Imaging:
$109000000 (Later stage VC)
• VDOO:
$57000000 (Later stage VC)
• Cloudleaf:
$26000000 (Later stage VC)
• Fakespot:
(Series A)
• Fakespot:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Sumatra:
$2000000 (Seed)
• MRGN:
(Pre Seed)
• MRGN:
(Pre-Seed)
• Ash Wellness:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Ash Wellness:
(Seed+)
• AppliedXL:
$4000000 (Seed)
• AssetDash:
(Pre Seed)
• Tabula:
$3000000 (Pre Seed)
• Naya:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Thorium Data:
$100000 (Pre Seed)
• OpenAxis:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• CACTIVATE:
(Pre Seed)
• Grin Gaming:
(Seed)
• Grin Gaming:
(Seed)
• Docket:
(Seed)
• Ask Vera:
(Seed)
• UrsaLeo:
(Seed+)
• Cactivate:
(Pre-Seed)
• Clearforce:
(Seed)
• Paragon Intel:
(Seed+)
• Intrro:
(Seed)
• Bazze:
(Pre-Seed)
• Asset Dash:
(Pre-Seed)
• Extend:
$16000000 (Series A)
• OneCell Diagnostics:
$16000000 (Series A)
• Finicast:
$13000000 (Seed)
• Very Good Ventures:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Very Good Ventures:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Prellis Biologics:
$35000000 (Series C)
• Prellis Biologics:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Biomason:
$65000000 (Series C)
• Home Delivery Service (HDS Global):
$5000000 (Series Unknown)
• Rizzle:
$17000000 (Convertible Note)
• EnTribe:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Atonarp:
$50000000 (Series D)
• Atonarp:
$2000000 (Series B)
• Atonarp:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Boom Supersonic:
$50000000 (Series C)
• Extend, Inc.:
$16000000 (Series A)
• Quartic.ai:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Globality:
$27000000 (Series B)
• Globality:
$10000000 (Series A)
• BangDB:
(Seed)
• Reaction:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Reaction:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Shipster:
(Seed)
• H2O.ai:
$9000000 (Series A)
• Trove:
$5000000 (Series A)
• FUTR Corp.:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Yellowsmith:
$850000 (Seed)
• Printi:
$1000000 (Series A)
• GoPro:
$88000000 (Series A)
Tony Corbin
Menlo Park - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - Israel - Europe: Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Greece, Portugal, Sweden, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Slovakia, Norway, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Icelan
Riverwood Capital is a globally-focused private equity firm that invests in high-growth businesses in the technology and services industries, across a variety of verticals and geographies. Riverwood has offices in Menlo Park, CA and New York, NY and currently has more than 20 investments in North America, Latin America and Asia. The firm's current fund has $780 million of committed capital. The final fund close was in April 2011. Riverwood invests in mid-market technology and technology enabled products and services. The firm defines mid-market as approximately $100-$500 million in revenue for product companies, and approximately $25-$150 million in revenue for software and services. Riverwood occasionally invests outside these ranges. Riverwood invests on a global basis, having already invested in the U.S., Israel, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. The firm's normal investment size ranges from $25-75 million.
Simon Murdoch
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Dr. Simon Murdoch is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Episode 1 Ventures. Currently he is also Board Member at Triptease. He sold his first company, BookPages, to Amazon in 1998 after which he reported to Jeff Bezos as VP Europe of Amazon.com. In early 2000, Simon founded and ran Chase Episode 1, an early stage European technology VC fund backed by JP Morgan Chase. After the fund Simon became a full-time angel investor. His angel portfolio includes/included investments in Shazam, Zoopla, LoveFilm (sold to Amazon 2011), Natural Motion, Covestor and Shutl. In addition, from 2010 to 2012, Simon worked at Octopus Ventures in portfolio development. Simon has a BA in Physics from Cambridge and a PhD in Computer Science and Expert Systems. He serves as Chairman at SubHub. He also serves as the board member at Profitero. He also served as aboard member at SwiftSwift. He holds the board position at Global App Testing, SimplyCook, Triptease and Passfort. He served as board member at ParamountZone.
Seed investor. Managing Partner at @summit-partners for 25+ years. Invest in sectors spanning consumer and enterprise wherever data is disrupting an old market.
How to connect with Angel Investors in the Retail industry?
In the Retail & E-Commerce industry, angel investors such as Chris Sacca, Alexis Ohanian, and Peter Thiel are prominent figures. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in online retail, e-commerce platforms, and digital marketplaces. Chris Sacca, known for his early investments in Twitter and Uber, looks for disruptive retail solutions with strong growth potential. Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, invests in startups that leverage technology to improve the retail experience. Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, seeks out companies that provide scalable and efficient e-commerce solutions. To connect with these investors, attend retail tech conferences, e-commerce expos, and networking events such as Shoptalk, Retail Innovation Conference, and NRF Retail’s Big Show. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your retail or e-commerce solution addresses key challenges, such as improving customer experience, enhancing operational efficiency, or optimizing supply chains. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with retailers, user growth, or positive feedback from customers. Building relationships through initial informal meetings or discussions at industry panels can help establish trust with these investors. Demonstrating the impact of your technology through case studies or user testimonials can also add credibility. Personalize your outreach by referencing the investor’s previous investments and explaining how your venture aligns with their interests. Demonstrating a sustainable business model with clear revenue streams, such as product sales, subscription fees, or service contracts, will further strengthen your pitch. Leveraging endorsements or case studies from retail or e-commerce experts can also enhance your credibility.
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