Investing Profile

Nat Friedman

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Investor at Self-employed
San Francisco, California
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Networks Nat is a member of
Self-Employed Network
769 CONNECTIONS
Microsoft Network
621 CONNECTIONS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network
620 CONNECTIONS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network
620 CONNECTIONS
Self-employed Network
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Current Investing Position
Self-employed Investor
Investment Range
$1M - $100.0M
Sweet Spot
$10.0M
Investments On Record
134

Nat Friedman is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Nat Friedman's Investments On Record (101)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
NewLimit
Series CJun 2026$440M
Series BMay 2025$130M
$640M
Co-investors: Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), Joe Lonsdale (8VC), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Scott Belsky (A24), Peter Thiel (The Founders Fund), Daniel Gross (Various), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Patrick Collison (Archipelagos, Institute of Marine Conservation), John Collison
Viktor
Series AMay 2026$75M
$75M
Co-investors: Alex Bouaziz (Sarona Ventures), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Max Mullen (Instacart), Zhenya Loginov (Accel-KKR), Daniel Gross (Various), Shaan Puri (The Milk Road), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Harry Stebbings (Stride.VC), Stewart Butterfield (Slack Technologies, Inc), Koen Bok (Festina), Nico Rosberg (Rosberg Ventures), Charlie Songhurst
Granola
Series CMar 2026$130M
Series BMay 2025$43M
Series AAug 2024$20M
$190M
Co-investors: Faraz Fatemi (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Nabeel Hyatt (Spark Capital), Danny Rimer (Index Ventures), Terrence Rohan (Index Ventures), Hunter Walk (Homebrew), Michael Mignano (Spotify), Daniel Gross (Various), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Mike Krieger (Anthropic), Andrew Parker (Spero Ventures), Tobias Lutke, Amjad Masad, Karim Atiyeh, Mike Hudack, Charlie Songhurst, David Lieb
Shellworks
Series AMar 2026$15M
$22M
Co-investors: Eric Paley (Founder Collective), Julien Callede (Goodvest), Jonathan Lenson (LocalGlobe), Bryan Meehan (Blue Bottle Coffee), Grant Aarons (AEA Technology Plc.), Deepali Nangia (Atomico)
Sumble
Series AOct 2025$30M
$30M
Co-investors: Anthony Goldbloom (AIX Ventures), Marc Benioff
Composite
SeedSep 2025$6M
$6M
Co-investors: Daniel Gross (Various)
Medra AI
Pre SeedSep 2025$11M
$11M
Co-investors: Mei Z.
Julius AI
SeedJul 2025$10M
$15M
Co-investors: Balaji Srinivasan (Andreessen Horowitz), Sandhya Venkatachalam (Social Capital), Brad Flora (Y Combinator), Edward Lando (Biowear), Sandy Kory (HorizonVC), Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Eoghan McCabe (Spark-Local, Inc), Akshay Kothari (Sdl Ventures), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Amjad Masad, David Petersen

Nat Friedman's Experience

Board Member Arc Institute2021 - Present
Investor Self-employed2021 - Present
Cofounder, Chairman California YIMBY2017 - Present
Founder AI Grant2017 - Present
Advisor Stripe2011 - Present
Investor StartupPresent
Investor Self-EmployedPresent
Chairman Emeritus GitHub2021 - 2022
CEO GitHub2018 - 2021
Corporate Vice President, Developer Services Microsoft2016 - 2018
CEO and Cofounder Xamarin2011 - 2016
Chief Technology Officer, Open Source Novell2003 - 2009
Cofounder, Chairman GNOME Foundation2000 - 2003
Cofounder, CEO Ximian1999 - 2003

Nat Friedman's Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bachelor of Science Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bachelor of Science Computer Science

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