# James Currier

> James Currier is a seed investor at NFX (Palo Alto) backing Software and Internet. See 74 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [NFX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nfxcapital)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 74
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 32%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescurrier
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/JamesCurrier
- Website: http://www.nfx.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/james.currier

James Currier is a seed investor at NFX in Palo Alto focused on Software and Internet. James Currier is the General Partner of NFX. He previously worked at Jiff Inc. as a Co-Founder and Chairman. James Currier attended Harvard University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$6.2M |
| Series A | $4.5M–$23M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 12 | 16% |
| Internet | 11 | 15% |
| Mobile | 8 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 11% |
| FinTech | 7 | 9% |

94 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 25 | 34% |
| Series A | 18 | 24% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 7% |
| Series B | 4 | 5% |
| Angel | 3 | 4% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 43 | 58% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Israel | 1 | 1% |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aligned | Aligned provides sales teams with a customer-facing digital portal that can be used to manage and share their marketing content, conversation and sales process with prospective buyers. The Saas B2B startup is growing at a fast pace and looking for top talents to join its core team. | $60M | Series B | Jul 01, 2026 |  |
| Rec Technologies | Rec Technologies is an IT firm. | $11M | Series A | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| Candex | Candex collaboration apps manage payments between companies and their vendors. Blockchain technology benefits are realized with phenomenal ease of use, speed and security. Their solution is trusted by Fortune 500 leaders like BP, First Data and Pfizer. They fulfill all of their control and reporting requirements, while users are able to executetransactions in a chat interface. Candex is growing rapidly by modernizing how organizations pay. They cut out red tape, boost employee management capabilities, and enhance spend visibility for better decision making. | $33M | Series C | Jul 14, 2025 |  |
| Warmly | Warmly is the first autonomous revenue orchestration platform purpose built for SMB sized revenue teams. The platform orchestrates metadata from sales enablement tools, B2B intent, and enrichment tools to identify, track, and connect with website visitors who are ready to convert. By automatically aggregating data and integrating insights fromvarious platforms, Warmly orchestrates the most effective next step to drive qualified conversations for the sales team. | $6M | Series A | Feb 04, 2025 |  |
| Smashing | Smashing, an invite-only app by Daily Reader Labs, tackles content overload and social media burnout | $3.4M | Seed | Jun 25, 2024 |  |
| Sagetap | Sagetap is an exclusive community of expert technologists that help top software vendors align their product strategies to evolving problems within the enterprise | $6.8M | Seed | May 28, 2024 |  |
| Rec Technologies | Rec Technologies is an IT firm. | $6.2M | Seed | Mar 01, 2024 |  |
| Candex | Candex collaboration apps manage payments between companies and their vendors. Blockchain technology benefits are realized with phenomenal ease of use, speed and security. Their solution is trusted by Fortune 500 leaders like BP, First Data and Pfizer. They fulfill all of their control and reporting requirements, while users are able to executetransactions in a chat interface. Candex is growing rapidly by modernizing how organizations pay. They cut out red tape, boost employee management capabilities, and enhance spend visibility for better decision making. | $45M | Series B | Nov 28, 2023 |  |
| Warmly | Warmly is the first autonomous revenue orchestration platform purpose built for SMB sized revenue teams. The platform orchestrates metadata from sales enablement tools, B2B intent, and enrichment tools to identify, track, and connect with website visitors who are ready to convert. By automatically aggregating data and integrating insights fromvarious platforms, Warmly orchestrates the most effective next step to drive qualified conversations for the sales team. | $11M | Series A | Oct 19, 2023 |  |
| Nuvocargo | Nuvocargo is the only all-in-one digital platform for cross-border trade offering freight forwarding, customs brokerage, cargo insurance and supply chain financing. It combines powerful technology with an exceptional team of experts to seamlessly integrate end-to-end movement of cargo in a single platform. Nuvocargo is modernizing a $2T market thathas yet to experience real digitalization, empowering shippers with unparalleled visibility, efficiency and support. Run by a fully bi-lingual team, Nuvocargo's unique position at the intersection of technology, logistics, the US and Latin America, contributes to growing revenues >25% month over month since beginning operations in late 2019. Nuvocargo is backed by Tiger Global, QED Investors, NFX, ALLVP, world-renowned startup accelerator Y Combinator, leading entrepreneurs (including the founders of NuBank, Rappi, Loft, Ramp, Deel and the COO of Kavak) among others. | $36.5M | Series B | Jun 23, 2023 |  |

10 of 74 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Craft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craft-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Hi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venture-partners-2) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Casdin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/casdin-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [NFX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nfxcapital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Ooga Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ooga-labs) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About NFX

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

NFX operates as a pre-seed & seed stage investor that is transforming how true innovators are funded for entrepreneurs. They believe that creating something of true significance starts with seeing things others do not. As Founders, they reinvented industries with this mindset. As investors, their approach is no different. They do this by askingourselves one question - ideally, how should the startup experience work for Founders, both NFX and the whole ecosystem.NFX lens is always through the eyes of the Founder. The firm approach is to first build an early-stage experience for all Founders that is powered by more software. Second, to bring the founders they back exponential yet little-known techniques for network effects and growth. Third, to make visible the typically seen methods of technology's most impactful companies.Having built 10 companies with more than $10 billion in exits across multiple industries and geographies, they're entrepreneurs first because they're entrepreneurs first. And they are determined to guard the backs of the next generation of fearless founders.

5 contacts available at NFX.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anna Piñol Mediano | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anna-pi%C3%B1ol-mediano |
| Pete Flint | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pete-flint |
| Amy Lin | Chief Product Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amy-lin-5821 |
| Anastasia Budinskaya | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anastasia-budinskaya-cc49 |
| Dhaval Chadha | NFX Guild Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dhaval-chadha |

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## FAQ

### What does James Currier invest in?

James Currier invests primarily in Software, Internet and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 74 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is James Currier's check size?

James Currier typically joins rounds of $2M–$6.2M at Seed and $4.5M–$23M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds James Currier participates in.

### When did James Currier last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for James Currier closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 74 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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