Eric Ward

We're at the beginning of a landmark moment for Longevity. The companies built in the next 10 years will power a radical transition from sickcare to true healthcare. Here's a short documentary w/@omri_drory & friends about the future of #Longevity: youtu.be/sGoJV933sL4?si…

The longevity breakthrough isn't supplements or biohacking. It's about technologies that can renew organs and push human lifespan to 160+. These breakthroughs exist today. @omri_drory reveals the key drivers:

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@saranormous Posted in June of 2023 - nfx.com/post/ai-leapfr…

The “AI leapfrog effect” is quietly transforming sectors historically slow to adopt technology—legal, healthcare, logistics. They’re not merely catching up. they’re vaulting ahead. Traditionally, automation in these industries was blocked by high barriers: expensive software, difficult integrations, ambiguous ROI. The business math rarely worked. Large language models, code generation, MCP and computer-use agents have fundamentally shifted the economics. Suddenly automation is affordable, fast, and obviously valuable. Examples are emerging everywhere: @harvey__ai in legal, @latent_health and @EvidenceOpen in healthcare, @sola_ai in logistics. Each providing rapid, tangible productivity gains. Crucially, every industry—even the slowest—is filled with motivated, tech-hungry end-users ready to drive adoption. Founders who overlook these sectors risk missing some of the decade’s best opportunities. What other areas with poor priors deserve another look? Insurance? Education?

We're now investing out of NFX Fund IV. Like you, we're operators and entrepreneurs. And we see what you're seeing: The world of technology is at a turning point.

Latest video from @NFX on fundraising seasons for all you founders in the process:

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Top founders are re-thinking their go-to-market in the age of AI. That's why we released our upgraded go-to-market playbook. We got great feedback on it. So we reimagined it into a 5 minute video masterclass:

The old marketing playbook feels dated. Channels are saturated, expensive, inauthentic... But we're seeing startups scale faster than ever with leaner teams, and no traditional sales. There’s a new GTM playbook. pic.twitter.com/iyksUx0uf1

Startups don’t need to do everything. They need to manage everything AI can do.

There are now 32,000+ active VCs, up from just 150 thirty years ago. More competition, more capital, and better terms for founders. In our latest NFX Video Essay with @jamescurrier, we break down "Venture Capital 3.0"—where the industry is headed and what it means for you:

AI founders: A great product isn’t enough—you need stackable business models that compound value over time. Here’s @peteflint on building a defensible AI business for long-term success:

When we first published @jamescurrier's essay on consumer tech, the response from our network was incredible. Our new video essay dives deeper. We're breaking down the past, present, and future of consumer with more context, more clarity, and more actionable takeaways:

The VC ecosystem is changing. AI, mega-funds, more "surface area" for investing...the implications are huge for founders. It's mostly good news, but you have to see the whole picture. Welcome to "Venture Capital 3.0" by @jamescurrier nfx.com/post/venture-c…

@TalkCorrect @gregisenberg More like they’re the first accelerator to have a network effect…

Y Combinator JUST announced what startups they want to fund next in 2025. And it's mostly AI that replaces $100k/year job functions. My notes below in case it's helpful to you:

You can copy code, but you can’t download a rocket. stokespace.com/stoke-space-an…

C'mon people, are we really surprised by @deepseek_ai? Did you really not see it coming? From our @nfx blog in 2022: "The [core AI models] are going to be open-source and easy to use. Models is where the generative AI revolution started – but it’s not where it will end. It’s not going to take long, maybe 3 years, for models to approximate each other and reach human limits. The ability for these models to differentiate themselves stops at those limits. Data network effects asymptote over time. An AI model that is 5% or even 20% percent better than the competition is a pretty slim defensibility. The AI models will be switched out at will. Which of course ... commodify them.” There will be several more 100X reductions in speed and cost in the next two years, and eventually it will run on CPU's and we won't need GPU's, and it will run on your smartphone and laptop without heating it up. Note that @Meta pulled the same trick as DeepSeek but not as well (yet) with Llama which is to say "Fuck, I lost, so I'll blow the whole market up by doing opensource 6 months after you. If I can't win, I'm going to keep you from winning." Many players have it in their strategic insterest to open source AI capability. Meta is one. China is a second. There are many more. It's inevitable. Hasn't this been obvious from the beginning? The defensibility of these models companies is not to have the proprietary model that is better than another. That advantage asymptotes within a few years. They have a short window to create network effects on top of those models with workflow software, or security layers, or marketplaces, or 10 other methods. But that window closes. DeepSeek or the next DeepSeek, whoever it is, signals the closing of their window. These big dick swinging $500B projects, "I'm good for my $80B," or whatever, just got caught up in the competition with each other, ignoring the reality of the technology, misallocating VC money, shareholders money, and now trying to get taxpayer money. Once again, faster and smarter beats bigger. And look, if DeepSeek turns out to be not as great as we think now, don't worry, the next DeepSeek will be. And the next.

NFX has followed the AI agent economy from the start. Today, Partner Sarai Bronfeld discusses long term strategy + insight from Israel: "The brain isn't enough anymore, you need action. Once AI can act independently, we are never going back." nfx.com/post/ai-agent-…

Consumer is back. It was gone, and no one wanted to admit it. But the window is open again, and we're all in on it. @JamesCurrier reveals the truth about the last ~10 years of consumer and what it takes to thrive today: nfx.com/post/consumer-…