About Nat Friedman
Nat Friedman is an angel investor and an entrepreneur based out of San Francisco, United States. They did their Bachelors from MIT. Their journey in the startup ecosystem started in 1999 through Ximian. Nat Friedman has founded 3 companies. They are currently acting as the, and as the co-founder of Xamarin and NFDG. Prior to this, Nat Friedman co-founded Ximian. As an angel investor, Nat Friedman has a portfolio of 98 companies, focusing primarily on sectors like Enterprise Applications, High Tech and 19 more sectors. They invest in companies across United States, United Kingdom and 8 more. Their most notable investments include companies like Stripe and Perplexity.
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Nat Friedman's Investments
Nat Friedman has invested in 98 companies. Their most recent investment was in Sumble (Series A Round) on Oct 22, 2025. Their investments are primarily in Enterprise Applications, High Tech and 19 more sectors. Their investment portfolio include companies in United States, United Kingdom and 8 more.Here is the list of recent investments by Nat Friedman:
Date | Company | Round | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Oct 22, 2025 | Series A | $30M | and 5 more | |
Oct 13, 2025 | Series A | $15M | ||
Oct 02, 2025 | Seed | $5.6M | and 1 more | |
Sep 12, 2025 | Series A | $11M | and 2 more |
Nat Friedman's Portfolio Exits
Here is the list of top portfolio exits by Nat Friedman:
Company | Description | Location | Total Funding | Founded Year | Exit Type | Exit Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Developer of a collaborative interface design and digital whiteboard platform | San Francisco (United States) | $749M | 2012 | IPO | Jul 31, 2025 | |
Provider of cloud computing services for artificial intelligence workloads | New York City (United States) | $2.38B | 2017 | IPO | Mar 28, 2025 | |
Provider of machine learning model development and management solutions | San Francisco (United States) | $250M | 2017 | Acquisition | Mar 04, 2025 | |
SMS based customer authentication and verification service | San Francisco (United States) | $97.5M | 1995 | Acquisition | Jan 18, 2017 |
Nat Friedman's Portfolio Unicorns
Nat Friedman has 15 unicorns in the portfolio including Stripe, Perplexity and 13 more.
Here is the list of top portfolio unicorns by Nat Friedman:
Company | Short Description | Total Funding | Founded Year | Current Stage | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Provider of financial infrastructure solutions for revenue growth and payment processing | $9.81B | 2010 | Series I | San Francisco | |
AI-powered search and answer generation | $1.72B | 2022 | Series E | San Francisco |
Nat Friedman's Founded Companies
Here are the details of all founded companies by Nat Friedman:
Company | Short Description | Total Funding | Founded Year | Current Stage | Location |
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Provider of cross platform application development platform | $82.2M | 2011 | Acquired | San Francisco | |
Venture capital fund investing in AI tech startups | - | - | Unfunded | - | |
Open-source solutions provider for enterprise Linux, cloud, and edge computing | $16M | 1999 | Acqui-Hired | Boston |
Nat Friedman's Top News
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Rookout lands $8M Series A to expand debugging platformTechCrunch+•Aug 07, 2019•Rookout, Cisco Investments, TLV Partners, Emerge Capital Partners and 8 others
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Kite raises $17M for its AI-driven code completion toolTechCrunch+•Jan 28, 2019•Kite, Trinity Ventures, KITE, Emmett Shear and 5 others
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