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Investing Profile

Nat Friedman

InvestorAngelVC
Investor, entrepreneur
San Francisco, California
C2 Investment Investor
$1M - $100.0M
$10.0M
100
$1B
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Pulse
SeedFeb 2025$4M
$31M
Co-investors: Puneet Agarwal (True Ventures), Alireza Masrour (Plug & Play Ventures), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Jared Friedman (Y Combinator), Simon Chan (FirstHand Alliance), Baris Aksoy (AV8 Ventures), Sergio Romo (Investo), Shruti Gandhi (Array Ventures), Dana Settle (Greycroft), Michael Dearing (Harrison Metal), Patrick Chung (Xfund), Steve Norall, Patrick S. Chung
Basis
Series ADec 2024$34M
$170M
Co-investors: Guimar Vaca Sittic (FJ Labs), Sheel Mohnot (Better Tomorrow Ventures), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Lenny Rachitsky (AirAngels), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Jack Altman (Alt Capital), Chris Sang (CP Ventures), Raymond Tonsing (Caffeinated Capital), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Sophie Liao (Oyster Ventures), Claire Hughes Johnson, Mark Gillespie, Kyle Vogt, Aaron Levie, Adam D'Angelo, Amjad Masad, Azeem Azhar, Larry Summers
Coframe
SeedOct 2024$9M
$9M
Co-investors: Lukas Linemayr (Streamlined Ventures), Andrew Tan (Builders), Arash Ferdowsi, Amjad Masad, Nkechi Iregbulem, Mei Z., Rich Miner
Agency AI
SeedOct 2024$12M
$15M
Co-investors: Patrick Grady (Sequoia Capital), Gaurav Jain (Afore Capital), Samara Hernandez (Chingona Ventures), Shruti Gandhi (Array Ventures), Sarah Guo (Conviction Partners), Brian Halligan (Propeller VC), Reshma Saujani
sync.labs
GrantOct 2024$250K
$6.9M
Co-investors: Crystal Huang (GV (Google Ventures)), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Brandon Hoffman (Sunset Ventures), Jared Heyman (Rebel Fund), Suleman (Suli) Ali (Ali Capital), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Kulveer Taggar, Furqan Rydhan, Hubert Thieblot, Gabriel Jarrosson
Distyl AI
Series ASep 2024$20M
SeedApr 2023$7M
$27M
Co-investors: Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Simon Chan (FirstHand Alliance), Brad Gerstner (Altimeter Capital)
Safe Superintelligence
Series ASep 2024$1B
$1B
Co-investors: Daniel Gross (C2 Investment)
Magic
Series UnknownAug 2024$320M
Series AFeb 2023$23M
$500M
Co-investors: Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Jason Warner (Redpoint Ventures), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator), Joel Monegro (Placeholder), Kevin Moore (KRM Interests LLC), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Wendy Xiao (Northzone), Alex Bouaziz (Sarona Ventures), Miyuki Matsumoto (Aglae Ventures), Shahed Khan (Hyper), Soona Amhaz (Volt Capital), Alex MacCaw (Earl Grey Capital), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Jana Messerschmidt (#ANGELS (Hashtag ANGELS)), Paul Yacoubian, Elad Gil, Fredrik Hjelm, Sahin Boydas, DROdio - Daniel R. Odio, Florian Huber, Casey Neistat, Ben Davenport, Guillermo Rauch, Ben Porterfield, Scott Belsky, Balaji Srinivasan, Varsha Rao, Sahil Lavingia
Investor Self-employed2021 - Present
Board Member Arc Institute2021 - 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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bachelor of Science Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bachelor of Science Computer Science