About

Nadia Mensah and Theo Marchetti started Northwood after a decade of building companies of their own. They had raised from firms that wrote many small cheques and stayed distant, and from a few that wrote fewer and stayed close. The second kind made the difference, so they set out to be that kind of firm.

Fourteen years and five funds later, the model has not changed. We lead seed and Series A rounds, take a board seat, and keep most of each fund in reserve for the companies already in it. Each partner works with a small number of founders at a time, and the partner who makes the case for an investment is the one who stays with it.

The firm is owned by its partners and funded by a small group of foundations, endowments and family offices, most of whom have been with us since the first fund.