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Northfield Partners · seed & Series A, Boston
First checks
for companies
that last.
We lead seed and Series A rounds of $2–8 million in software, health and climate companies, and we stay on the board until the company no longer needs us. Fund IV: $340 million, closed March 2026.
Partners’ room, 200 Clarendon St, 31st floor.
Backed by Northfield since 2011
Portfolio
Sixty-one companies.
Nine are public.
From a two-person team in a Kendall Square sublet to listings on the NYSE. A new logo every 2.5 seconds — hover to stop.
$1.9B
returned to our investors since 2011
14
exits, nine of them IPOs
72%
of seed companies raised a Series A
$340M
Fund IV, closed March 2026
$2–8M
first check, seed or Series A
22
companies per fund, at most
6
partners, one vote each
Smaller fund.
Earlier checks.
We cap every fund at a size where a $40 million exit still matters to us. It keeps us honest about what we fund.
Three sectors.
We say no to the rest.
Every partner has run a company in one of these. Use the arrows to see more of each.
Software
27 companies · infrastructure, fintech
Health
19 companies · biotech tools, care delivery
Climate
15 companies · grid, materials, food
Daniel Cho at Ledgerly, Seaport, Boston.
“Northfield wrote our first check when we were two people and a spreadsheet. Six years later Maya still answers my texts on Sunday nights.”
Daniel Cho
Co-founder & CEO, Ledgerly · seed 2020, Series B 2024
Companies Maya sits on the board of
Richard Ames
Managing partner · since 2011
Founded Copley Systems (acq. by Oracle, 2008). Boards: Amplitude, Elastic.
Maya Lindqvist
Partner, software · since 2016
Ex-VP Product at HubSpot. Boards: Ledgerly, Outreach, Quarry Data.
Owen Carver
Partner, climate · since 2021
Built two grid-storage startups in Somerville. Boards: Summit Grid, Fernleaf.
Six partners.
Every one a founder first.
You get a partner on your board, not an associate. Each of us takes on no more than two new boards a year.
Board seats held by the partnership
How we invest
Yes or no
in three weeks.
01
First call
Thirty minutes with a partner. No deck needed, just the problem and who has it.
02
Diligence
We talk to five of your customers and read your code or your data room. Never both.
03
Partner meeting
Monday at 9 am. You present to all six of us; we decide by Friday.
04
Term sheet
Standard NVCA documents, one page of terms, no participation.
Recent first checks
Hexa Bio
Seed · $4.5M · August 2026
Fernleaf Energy
Series A · $8M · June 2026
Notes from the partnership
What we’re
reading into.
One essay a month on what we see in pitches. Founders tell us they read these before they email us.
October 6, 2026 · Maya Lindqvist
The one-page term sheet, and why we stopped negotiating the rest
September 12, 2026 · Richard Ames
Lab-to-market: what a seed check buys a biotech tools company in 2026
August 21, 2026 · Owen Carver
Grid storage is a software problem now. Here is what we’re funding.
Our essays have been picked up by
For founders
Ask the founders
we already back.
Every portfolio CEO has agreed to take a reference call from anyone we send a term sheet to. Click a logo to visit the company.
Contact
Send us the
problem, not the deck.
A paragraph is enough. A partner reads every email that reaches pitch@northfield.vc and replies within a week, yes or no.
200 Clarendon Street, 31st floor · Boston, MA 02116 · (617) 555-0193
Raising this quarter. Ask us for an intro.
