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Nat Friedman

Angel investor · Active in 2026

Nat Friedman is an angel investor based in USA. The page below shows 24 Power Law outcomes from Nat Friedman's portfolio — 19 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in AI · Fintech · Cybersecurity; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · Decentralised. Nat Friedman ranks #257 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

24 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #257 · Global · 24 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 217% 5y
19
Decacorns → 5y
6
Thoroughbreds ↑ 900% 5y
10
01 · Exits

Sequoia’s biggest exits.

Sequoia portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 1999
Entered SeedNow $5.2T
IPO · 2004
Entered Series ANow $4.6T
IPO · 1980
Now $4.5T
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $306B
$214B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $20.1B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $207B
$82.0B IPO · 2019
Now $153B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $103B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $69.1B
$93.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $58.4B
$24.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $73.3B
$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $67.6B
$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $67.5B
$41.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $64.4B
$60.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $28.0B
$55.5B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $55.5B
$52.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $49.6B
IPO · 2013
Now $45.0B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $39.4B
IPO · 2002
Entered SeedNow $39.1B
$32.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
$12.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $29.5B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $28.6B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $28.2B
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 24 Nat Friedman Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA19
  2. UK3
  3. Decentralised1
  4. Brazil1
By sectorCount
  1. AI16
  2. Fintech3
  3. Cybersecurity3
  4. Robotics1
  5. Biotech & Life Sciences1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+8
  2. Series A8
  3. Seed4
Estimated holdings

Nat Friedman’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Nat Friedman’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 3 companies where Nat Friedman is a named shareholder, worth about $220M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 The Bot CompanyRobotics · Unicorn 4.5% $2.0B $90M
  2. 2 RetoolEnterprise Software · Unicorn 2.5% $3.2B $80M
  3. 3 Reka AIEnterprise Software · Unicorn 5% $1.0B $50M

Estimated value = Nat Friedman’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Nat Friedman also appears inside investor groups in Anysphere | Cursor, ElevenLabs, Perplexity, Safe Superintelligence, Suno, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Nat Friedman’s biggest exits.

Nat Friedman portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

$55.0B IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $90.4B
$29.3B acquisition · 2026
Entered Seed
$29.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$2.7B acquisition · 2024
Entered Series A
$1.7B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
04 · Portfolio market map

Nat Friedman's 24 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
24 of 24 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Nat Friedman stack up?

Nat Friedman in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

59 founders across the 24 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States22
France4
China3
India3
Poland3
Finland2
Brazil2
Russia2
Israel1
Indonesia1
+7 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology6
University of Oxford3
Berkeley3
Duke University3
University of Helsinki2
Horace Mann School2
University of Pennsylvania2
National University of Singapore1
University of São Paulo1
+18 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google10
Microsoft4
Google DeepMind4
Quora4
Palantir3
Meta3
OpenAI3
Yahoo!2
Uber1
Shift Technology1
+24 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
07 · Key people

Key people at Nat Friedman.

Senior investment team at Nat Friedman has not been published on this profile yet.
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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Nat Friedman

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Nat Friedman on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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Latest news about Nat Friedman

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