Restart Startup Nation: FAST 2025

To apply for Restart Startup Nation: FAST, create and submit a BriefLink.

Paste & submit the link to your BriefLink here

This FAST funding window is open from now until March 19th. The sooner you apply, the sooner you get funded.

How FAST Works

FAST represents a new SLA for fundraising.

Decision within 9 days
Money in your bank within 3 weeks
Transparent - you know the deal terms and where you are in every step of the process
Founders who receive FAST funding join the NFX Guild, our portfolio of 400+ top Founders who support each other
$20M allocated. First come, first served
Simple financial contract, standard terms the Founder chooses $1.5M - $3M SAFE investment depending on FAST type
If you've interacted with NFX within the past 12 months and didn't receive funding, please highlight the business improvements made in your application for reconsideration.

To apply:
Create a private BriefLink which includes a deck, a video and answers to 12 questions.

What companies are most likely to get funded by NFX?

Like all investors, we have investment preferences and areas of focus that you should know about. For instance, we strongly favor companies that can have network effects (NFX). We focus on companies located in the US, Israel, LatAm, and Europe.

We don't invest in these sectors: semiconductor, medical devices, pure pharma, pure hardware, and network devices.

Learn more about what each NFX Partner is interested in by visiting their Signal profiles: Morgan Beller, Omri Amirav-Drory, Pete Flint, Gigi Levy-Weiss, and James Currier.

Here's our current portfolio.

Here are some essays we've written on fundraising.

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About NFX

NFX is a Pre-Seed and Seed venture firm based in San Francisco and Israel. As Founders ourselves, we built 10 companies with more than $10 billion in exits. These exits spanned multiple industries and geographies. We invest, build software, and distribute content to help early-stage Founders unlock speed, defensibility, and edge.