Investing Profile

Nat Friedman

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Investor, entrepreneur
San Francisco, California
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Networks Nat is a member of
Microsoft Network
256 CONNECTIONS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network
249 CONNECTIONS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network
249 CONNECTIONS
Self-employed Network
132 CONNECTIONS
Stripe Network
37 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
C2 Investment Investor
Investment Range
$1M - $100.0M
Sweet Spot
$10.0M
Investments On Record
132
Current Fund Size
$1B

Nat Friedman is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Nat Friedman's Investments On Record (100)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Granola
Series CMar 2026$130M
Series BMay 2025$43M
Series AAug 2024$20M
$190M
Co-investors: Faraz Fatemi (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Nabeel Hyatt (Spark Capital), Danny Rimer (Index Ventures), Hunter Walk (Homebrew), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Andrew Parker (Spero Ventures), Terrence Rohan (Otherwise Fund), Amjad Masad, Tobias Lutke, Guillermo Rauch, Karim Atiyeh, Charlie Songhurst, Mike Hudack, Mike Krieger, David Lieb
Shellworks
Series AMar 2026$15M
$22M
Co-investors: Eric Paley (Founder Collective), Deepali Nangia (Speedinvest), Julien Callede, Bryan Meehan, Jonathan Lenson
Sumble
Series AOct 2025$30M
$30M
Co-investors: Anthony Goldbloom (AIX Ventures), Marc Benioff
Composite
SeedSep 2025$6M
$6M
Co-investors: Daniel Gross (C2 Investment)
Medra AI
Pre SeedSep 2025$11M
$11M
Co-investors: Mei Z.
Julius AI
SeedJul 2025$10M
$15M
Co-investors: Sandhya Venkatachalam (Social Capital), Gokul Rajaram (Top-Patents), Brad Flora (Y Combinator), Edward Lando (Biowear), Arash Ferdowsi, Amjad Masad, Guillermo Rauch, Eoghan McCabe, Akshay Kothari, Balaji Srinivasan, David Petersen
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company
SeedJul 2025$15M
$15M
Co-investors: Gordon Ritter (Emergence Capital)
XBOW
Series BJun 2025$75M
Series AJan 2025$22M
$240M
Co-investors: Barry Schuler (DFJ), Sanjot Malhi (Northzone), Amjad Masad

Nat Friedman's Experience

Board Member Arc Institute2021 - Present
Investor Self-employed2021 - Present
Founder AI Grant2017 - Present
Cofounder, Chairman California YIMBY2017 - Present
Advisor Stripe2011 - Present
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