Investing Profile

Nat Friedman

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Investor at Self-employed

San Francisco, California

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Self-Employed Network

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Microsoft Network

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network

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Meta Network

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Current Investing Position

Self-employed Investor

Investment Range

$1M - $100.0M

Sweet Spot

$10.0M

Investments On Record

137

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Nat Friedman's Investments On Record (104)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
NewLimit	Series CJun 2026$440M Series BMay 2025$130M	$640M
Co-investors: Joe Lonsdale (8VC), Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Daniel Gross (Various), Patrick Collison (Archipelagos, Institute of Marine Conservation), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Scott Belsky (A24), Peter Thiel (The Founders Fund), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), John Collison
Viktor	Series AMay 2026$75M	$75M
Co-investors: 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), Zhenya Loginov (Accel-KKR), Alex Bouaziz (Sarona Ventures), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Max Mullen (Instacart), Charlie Songhurst
Mechanize	SeedApr 2026$9M	$9M
Co-investors: Daniel Gross (Various), Patrick Collison (Archipelagos, Institute of Marine Conservation), Adam D'Angelo
Granola	Series CMar 2026$130M Series BMay 2025$43M Series AAug 2024$20M	$190M
Co-investors: Nabeel Hyatt (Spark Capital), Danny Rimer (Index Ventures), Terrence Rohan (Index Ventures), Hunter Walk (Homebrew), Michael Mignano (Spotify), Faraz Fatemi (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Daniel Gross (Various), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Mike Krieger (Anthropic), Andrew Parker (Spero Ventures), Charlie Songhurst, David Lieb, Amjad Masad, Karim Atiyeh, Tobias Lutke, Mike Hudack
Shellworks	Series AMar 2026$15M	$22M
Co-investors: Eric Paley (Founder Collective), Grant Aarons (AEA Technology Plc.), Deepali Nangia (Atomico), Julien Callede (Goodvest), Bryan Meehan (Blue Bottle Coffee), Jonathan Lenson (LocalGlobe)
Sumble	Series AOct 2025$30M	$30M
Co-investors: Anthony Goldbloom (AIX Ventures), Marc Benioff
Composite Sciences, Inc.	SeedSep 2025$6M	$6M
Co-investors: Daniel Gross (Various)
Medra AI	Pre SeedSep 2025$11M	$11M
Co-investors: Mei Z.

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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 Y CombinatorPresent

AI Products MetaPresent

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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