Investing Profile

Nat Friedman

InvestorAngelVC
Investor, entrepreneur
San Francisco, California
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network
177 CONNECTIONS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network
177 CONNECTIONS
Microsoft Network
152 CONNECTIONS
Self-employed Network
45 CONNECTIONS
Stripe Network
17 CONNECTIONS
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C2 Investment Investor
$1M - $100.0M
$10.0M
96
$1B
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Basis
Series ADec 2024$34M
$170M
Co-investors: Guimar Vaca Sittic (FJ Labs), Sheel Mohnot (Better Tomorrow Ventures), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Sophie Liao (Oyster Ventures), Raymond Tonsing (Caffeinated Capital), Chris Sang (CP Ventures), Mark Gillespie, Amjad Masad, Azeem Azhar, Larry Summers, Claire Hughes Johnson
Coframe
SeedOct 2024$9M
$9M
Co-investors: Lukas Linemayr (Streamlined Ventures), Andrew Tan (Builders), Rich Miner, Mei Z., Nkechi Iregbulem, Amjad Masad, Arash Ferdowsi
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)), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Jared Heyman (Rebel Fund), Suleman (Suli) Ali (Ali Capital), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Furqan Rydhan, Hubert Thieblot, Gabriel Jarrosson, Kulveer Taggar
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), Wendy Xiao (Northzone), Alex Bouaziz (Sarona Ventures), Miyuki Matsumoto (Aglae Ventures), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Shahed Khan (Hyper), Soona Amhaz (Volt Capital), Joel Monegro (Placeholder), Alex MacCaw (Earl Grey Capital), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Jana Messerschmidt (#ANGELS (Hashtag ANGELS)), Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator), Kevin Moore (KRM Interests LLC), Varsha Rao, Sahil Lavingia, Elad Gil, Sahin Boydas, Florian Huber, Fredrik Hjelm, Paul Yacoubian, Guillermo Rauch, Ben Davenport, DROdio - Daniel R. Odio, Casey Neistat, Ben Porterfield, Scott Belsky, Balaji Srinivasan
Grid Status
SeedAug 2024$8M
$8M
Co-investors: Tyler Lancaster (Energize Ventures), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment)
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