Pete Flint

General Partner, NFX

NFX co-founder, Trulia founder, network effects investor

Global, primarily United States and Israel$1M–$5M checks8 notable investments

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

Website LinkedIn 𝕏@peteflint NFX Crunchbase

MarketplacesProptechFintechAIConsumer

Background

Pete Flint is a British entrepreneur and investor who co-founded and led Trulia as CEO from 2004 to 2015, scaling it to over 50 million monthly users before its $3.5 billion merger with Zillow. He was also part of the founding team at lastminute.com, which sold for over $1 billion. Flint holds an MBA from Stanford GSB and a Master's in Physics from Oxford. He co-founded NFX in 2015 alongside James Currier, Gigi Levy-Weiss, and Stan Chudnovsky, focusing on early-stage companies where network effects drive defensibility. He serves as a guest lecturer at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

Investment Thesis

Network effects are the primary mechanism for creating defensibility and long-term value in digital businesses; NFX has studied network effects for over 20 years and backs founders building businesses where networks are central to market transformation.