Number of Portfolio Companies 58
Number of Exits 
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Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer.

Nat is passionate about building products that delight customers, with love and attention to detail. Nat has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years.

In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Nat was a co-founder and chairman of the GNOME foundation. At Novell,

Nat ran engineering for a $110M product and served as CTO of the Linux business.

Nat is an avid traveler who visited 20 countries in 2010, an active angel investor, and a private pilot.

Number of Investments 74
Nat Friedman has made 74 investments. Their latest investment was Series B - Hume AI on Mar 25, 2024, when Hume AI raised
$50M
.
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Mar 25, 2024
Hume AI
Series B - Hume AI
$50M
Jan 22, 2024
ElevenLabs
Yes
Series B - ElevenLabs
$80M
Jan 18, 2024
Recraft
Yes
Series A - Recraft
$12M
Jan 10, 2024
Echo Labs
Pre Seed Round - Echo Labs
$7.7M
Dec 4, 2023
CoreWeave
No
Secondary Market - CoreWeave
$642M
Dec 3, 2023
AssemblyAI
Series C - AssemblyAI
$50M
Nov 2, 2023
Matic
Series A - Matic
$24M
Oct 11, 2023
Anysphere
Seed Round - Anysphere
$8M
Oct 3, 2023
KittyCAD
Seed Round - KittyCAD
$5M
Sep 21, 2023
Rain Industries
Seed Round - Rain Industries
$9.7M
Number of Exits 
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Nat Friedman has exits. Their most notable exits are TransformRunscope, and Rookout.
  • Transform Transform is the first centralized ‘metrics store’ that empowers data analysts to deliver accurate, timely, confident, and fast insights.
  • Runscope Runscope develops tools that support the modern application development life cycle.
  • Rookout Rookout is a cloud-native debugging and live data collection platform.
  • Kite Kite augments coding environment with the use of internet’s programming knowledge and machine learning.
  • Humanoid Humanoid is a software company providing solutions for computer programmers to utilize human intelligence in software applications.
  • Airplane Airplane is a software development company that offers a software platform for engineers to build internal tools.
Number of Current Jobs 4
Number of Past Jobs 2
Nat Friedman has 4 current jobs including Chairman at GitHub, CEO at GitHub, and Co-founder at AI Grant. Additionally, Nat Friedman has had 2 past jobs including Corporate Vice President, Developer Services at Microsoft.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Microsoft
Corporate Vice President, Developer ServicesMar 2016Oct 2018
Xamarin
CEO, Co-FounderMay 25, 2011Mar 2016
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 2
Nat Friedman holds 2 board and advisor roles as Chairman at California YIMBY and Advisor at Stripe.
Number of News Articles 164
Funding RoundMar 25, 2024
Hume AI raised $50,000,000 / Series B from Comcast Ventures and 7 other investors
NewsJan 22, 2024
Funding RoundJan 22, 2024
ElevenLabs raised $80,000,000 / Series B from Andreessen Horowitz and 7 other investors
Funding RoundJan 18, 2024
Recraft raised $12,000,000 / Series A from AAL VC and 9 other investors
Funding RoundJan 10, 2024
Echo Labs raised $7,700,000 / Pre Seed from Basis Set Ventures and 4 other investors
NewsDec 4, 2023
Funding RoundDec 4, 2023
CoreWeave raised $642,000,000 / Secondary Market from Daniel Gross and 8 other investors
Funding RoundDec 3, 2023
AssemblyAI raised $50,000,000 / Series C from Accel and 6 other investors