General Partner
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Mar 2015 - Present
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James Currier previously worked as General Partner at Nfx and Co-Founder and Chairman at Jiff Inc.. James Currier holds Ba, Political Economics from Princeton University.
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NFX is a early stage venture capital firm, investing $1M- $3M for 16-20% of startups. We have $1.6B under management and focus on companies that have -- or could have -- network effects. We focus on companies in the SF Bay Area and Israel. I co-founded three successful venture backed companies and another twenty MVP's that we never venture funded. Tickle, 1999 - 2006, acquired by Monster in 2004. One of the first social media sites. Psychological tests, social networking, matchmaking, ad network. We invented many of the viral growth techniques and data modeling subsequently used by the rest of the Internet. We registered 175 million users when the Internet was 600 million people, 18th largest website in the world. WonderHill video games on the FB platform, 2008 - 2010, funded by CRV. Merged with Kabam in 2010. Jiff, SaaS healthcare software for self insured employers, 2011 - 2017. Funded by Venrock, Rosemark, J&J, GE, Towers Watson, Aeris. Merged with Castlight Health in 2017.Specialties: Network Effects, Growth 2.0, product strategy and development, marketplaces, product marketing, consumer psychology, venture finance, business strategy.
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9 roles · 37 years
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Co-Founder And Chairman
Jiff Inc.
A secure network and marketplace for connecting employees of the F500 to the health care industry. Backed by Venrock, Towers Watson, GE, J&J, and merged with Castlight, a public company.
Dec 2010 - Jan 2017
Ceo & Co-Founder
Start-up greenhouse focused on networks and marketplaces, and methodologies for growing them. Launched three successful companies, Wonderhill (social gaming), IronPearl (growth analytics, SaaS) and Jiff (healthcare software SaaS for large, self-insured employers and insurance companies).
Jan 2007 - Dec 2014
Board Member
Linden Lab
2005 - Aug 2011
Co-Founder And Ceo
Wonderhill
Social gaming company, maker of GreenSpot on MySpace and Dragons of Atlantis on Facebook. CRV and Shasta invested, merged with Kabam 2010.
Dec 2008 - Jan 2011
Founder And Ceo
Tickle was founded in 1999. It's primary business was viral self-assessment tests. We also developed matchmaking and social networking properties in 2002 and 2003 respectively. In May 2004 we sold to Monster.com. The company grew to 80 employees and $38 million in revenue. Between all the viral services, we registered over 175 million user accounts, and at one time ranked as the 18th largest website in the world by Media Metrix. We won the Webby in 2002 for "Fastest Growing Website." Ex-Ticklers still get together to party, and many of the old Ticklers work with me still at Ooga Labs. Great people.
Jul 1999 - Dec 2005
Associate
Source and help close deals in telecommunications, software and Internet fields. In my spare time in 1994 and 1995, started two websites: Capital Venture (for young VC's) and VCNN (Venture Capital News Network), the first online community site for the high tech venture capital community.
1994 - 1997
~3 yrs
Business Development Manager
Developed plans for suites of digital technologies which would lead to 12 new television channels in 7 different languages and enable STAR TV to become the cable operator of Asia. Murdoch bought the company.
1993 - 1994
~1 yr
Associate
GTE New Ventures group just north of Hollywood. We were investing in startups building broadband applications targeted to the entertainment industry. All we had at the time was AT&T's private broadband network, no TCP/IP yet.
1990 - 1993
~3 yrs
4 education records
James Currier education
Ba, Political Economics
Princeton University
Mba
Harvard Business School
High School Diploma
Phillips Exeter Academy
Master Of Business Administration - Mba
Harvard University
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James Currier is based in Palo Alto, California, United States while working with NFX.
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James Currier has worked for Nfx, Jiff Inc., Ooga Labs, Linden Lab, and Wonderhill.
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James Currier holds Ba, Political Economics from Princeton University.
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