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Pete Flint

Managing Partner
Investor Bay Area
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Background
  • Co-founded lastminute.com (founding team, acquired for $1B+ by Travelocity/Sabre in 2005)
  • Co-founded and CEO of Trulia — grew to 50M+ monthly users, merged with Zillow for $3.5B (2015)
  • Early angel in DoorDash, Lyft, Patreon
  • Masters in Physics from Oxford University, MBA from Stanford GSB
  • Guest lecturer at Stanford GSB
Investment Focus
  • AI/ML disruption of traditional industries
  • Marketplace businesses and platform companies with network effects
  • Explicit thesis around the AI agent economy — how agents create new marketplace dynamics
  • Infrastructure platforms for agent-to-agent transactions
  • Shift from co-pilots to autonomous agents
Notable Investments
  • Pre-NFX angel: DoorDash, Lyft, Patreon
  • At NFX: Maisa AI (AI agents that learn with humans, $25M seed), F2 (agentic AI for private market analysis)
  • NFX portfolio spans generative AI and AI infrastructure
  • Trulia/Zillow merger ($3.5B) demonstrates ability to build and scale data-heavy platforms
AI Agent Relevance
  • Has built one of the most articulate public theses on the AI agent economy among active seed investors
  • Written extensively about agent orchestration, agent-to-agent transaction platforms, and memory/context layers
  • Trulia background gives deep intuition for infrastructure scale challenges
  • NFX FAST generative AI program provides accelerated path to funding with 9-day decisions
  • Network effects lens is highly relevant for agent platforms with network dynamics
  • Reference his AI agent marketplace thesis in outreach for maximum signal
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