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Nat Friedman

Investor, entrepreneur

San Francisco, California

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $100,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $10,000,000.00

Skills

Mobile Applications
Software Development
Cloud Computing
Software Engineering
Start-ups
Agile Methodologies
Product Management
Web Applications
Web Services
Entrepreneurship
User Experience
Startups
Strategy
SaaS
Open Source
Linux
C#
Git
AJAX
jQuery

Education

Investments

Consensus

Series A

Total Funding: $25M

EvolutionaryScale

Seed

Total Funding: $140M

Klarity

Series A

Total Funding: $89M

ValueBase

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $8M

Zeta Labs

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $3M

Pika

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $130M

Suno

Series B

Total Funding: $130M

Scale AI

Series A

Total Funding: $1.6B

The Bot Company

Seed

Total Funding: $150M

RunPod

Seed

Total Funding: $20M

Espresso AI

Seed

Total Funding: $11M

Perplexity AI

Seed

Total Funding: $170M

Hume AI

Series B

Total Funding: $50M

ElevenLabs

Series A

Total Funding: $100M

Recraft

Series A

Total Funding: $12M

Echo Labs

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $8M

CoreWeave

Series B

Total Funding: $860M

AssemblyAI

Series Unknown

Total Funding: $160M

Matic

Series A

Total Funding: $30M

Anysphere

Seed

Total Funding: $8M

KittyCAD

Seed

Total Funding: $5M

Rain Industries

Seed

Total Funding: $10M

Weights & Biases

Series B

Total Funding: $250M

Socket

Seed

Total Funding: $37M

Reka AI

Series A

Total Funding: $60M

8Flow

Seed

Total Funding: $7M

Terraform Industries

Seed

Total Funding: $11M

Mathpix

Series A

Total Funding: $4M

Polywork

Series A

Total Funding: $45M

Distyl AI

Seed

Total Funding: $7M

Character.ai

Seed

Total Funding: $150M

Capsule

Seed

Total Funding: $58M

Magic

Series A

Total Funding: $500M

Atomic AI

Series A

Total Funding: $35M

Accord

Series A

Total Funding: $26M

Rowy

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

Grafbase

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $7M

Airplane

Series B

Total Funding: $41M

keen technologies

Series Unknown

Total Funding: $20M

Retool

Seed

Total Funding: $140M

Neon

Series A

Total Funding: $860M

Entrepreneur First

Series C

Total Funding: $180M

Strapi

Series B

Total Funding: $41M

Pulley

Seed

Total Funding: $54M

Logseq

Seed

Total Funding: $4M

Chroma

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $25M

Dagger

Series A

Total Funding: $20M

Spice AI

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $15M

Tinybird

Seed

Total Funding: $70M

Medallion

Series A

Total Funding: $110M

Hubble

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $21M

Alt

Series A

Total Funding: $180M

Prefect

Series A

Total Funding: $56M

Transform

Series A

Total Funding: $25M

Doppler

Seed

Total Funding: $29M

Deel

Series B

Total Funding: $680M

Axiom

Seed

Total Funding: $11M

Vercel

Series A

Total Funding: $560M

Buck Stash

Seed

Total Funding:

Digits

Series A

Total Funding: $110M

Glide Apps

Seed

Total Funding: $24M

Rookout

Series A

Total Funding: $28M

Kite

Series A

Total Funding: $220M

Xwing

Seed

Total Funding: $54M

Runscope

Seed

Total Funding: $7M

Humanoid

Seed

Total Funding: $2.1M

Work Experience

2021

  • Investor

    2021

2018 - 2022

  • Chairman Emeritus

    2021 - 2022

  • CEO

    2018 - 2021

2016 - 2018

  • Corporate Vice President, Developer Services

    2016 - 2018

    At Microsoft I was responsible for Visual Studio Team Services and App Center, application lifecycle and devops services with more than a million users. I was also responsible for the internal company-wide engineering systems.

2011 - 2016

  • CEO and Cofounder

    2011 - 2016

    At Xamarin our mission was to make mobile development fast, easy, and fun. Xamarin allows developers to write native apps for iOS and Android using C#. We also built a number of other mobile development tools, including app monitoring and testing services, and a developer training program. In 4.5 years, the company grew to $50M ARR and thousands of paying customers. Xamarin is where I fell in love with go-to-market and sales. We built two successful sales models: a high-velocity, low-touch inside sales model, and a more traditional enterprise model. Both models benefited from strong inbound marketing and thousands of daily signups. The company was 350 people when we were acquired by Microsoft.

2003 - 2009

  • Chief Technology Officer, Open Source

    2003 - 2009

    After Novell bought my company, I led all the Linux client efforts and served as CTO for open source. I also ran GroupWise, a $150M collaboration product.

2000 - 2003

  • Cofounder, Chairman

    2000 - 2003

    The GNOME Foundation works to further the goal of the GNOME project: to create a computing platform for use by the general public that is composed entirely of free software. Many companies were involved in GNOME, so I co-created the GNOME Foundation to provide independent governance for the project. It was one of the first such open source foundations.

1999 - 2003

  • Cofounder, CEO

    1999 - 2003

    At Ximian I invented the popular and uncontroversial "curl | sudo bash" installer method.