Angel investor in listed AI tools
Nat Friedman
Nat Friedman has backed 15 companies behind 20 listings on Anchor Terminal.
Companies on Anchor Terminal
AssemblyAI Series A, March 2022, Series C, December 2023
Source assemblyai.com/blog/…
AssemblyAI, Inc. Series A, March 2022, Series C, December 2023
Source assemblyai.com/blog/…
Deno Land Inc. Series A, June 2022
Source deno.com/blog/series-a
Permutation Labs
Source dust.tt/home/about
Hume AI Series B, March 2024
ggml.ai (acquired by Hugging Face) Pre-seed
Source ggml.ai
Perplexity Seed, September 2022, Series A, March 2023, Series B, January 2024, led a round
- SPACE C · Code execution sandboxes
- pplx-decider B · Decision models
- pplx-decider-flash B · Decision models
Source perplexity.ai/hub/blog/…
Daily
Source daily.co/blog/…
Recraft Series A, January 2024, Series B, May 2025, led a round
Source recraft.ai/press-releases/…
Runpod Seed, May 2024
Shippo $45M round, February 2021
Source goshippo.com/blog/…
Strapi, Inc. Series B, June 2022
Source strapi.io/blog/series-b
Vercel Inc.
Source vercel.com/about
Vercel
Source vercel.com/about
WorkOS Series A, announced March 2021
Source workos.com/blog/…
Where they invest
Conversational voice agents 4 Code execution sandboxes 3 Decision models 2 Agent auth & delegated access 2 Speech-to-text 1 Company knowledge & data catalogues 1 Voice cloning & custom voices 1 Local AI 1 Image generation 1 GPU & serverless compute 1 Shipping & fulfilment 1 CMS & website publishing 1 Model APIs & inference 1
Founders they backed
- Dylan Fox AssemblyAI, AssemblyAI, Inc.
- Ryan Dahl Deno Land Inc.
- Bert Belder Deno Land Inc.
- Georgi Gerganov ggml.ai (acquired by Hugging Face)
- Aravind Srinivas Perplexity
- Denis Yarats Perplexity
- Johnny Ho Perplexity
- Andy Konwinski Perplexity
- Kwindla Hultman Kramer Daily
- Laura Behrens Wu Shippo
- Simon Kreuz Shippo
- Guillermo Rauch Vercel Inc., Vercel
- Michael Grinich WorkOS
Questions
Which AI tools has Nat Friedman invested in?
Anchor Terminal lists AssemblyAI, AssemblyAI, Inc., Deno Land Inc., Permutation Labs, Hume AI, ggml.ai (acquired by Hugging Face), Perplexity, Daily, Recraft, Runpod, Shippo, Strapi, Inc., Vercel Inc., Vercel and WorkOS backed by Nat Friedman.
How are Nat Friedman's companies graded?
On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, AssemblyAI Speech-to-Text (Universal) (B, 66.9), AssemblyAI Voice Agent API (B, 64.6), Deno Sandbox (D, 50.4), Dust (B, 62.8), Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) (C, 56.7), Hume Octave Voice Design and Cloning + MCP (C, 54.6), llama.cpp (C, 60.6), SPACE (C, 56.4), pplx-decider (B, 68.2), pplx-decider-flash (B, 68), Pipecat (B, 69.1), Pipecat PhoneLLM (C, 59), Recraft API (D, 52.9), Runpod (D, 53.6), Shippo (C, 61.9), Strapi (B, 65.7), Vercel AI Gateway (B, 66.8), Vercel Connect (B, 68.8), Vercel Sandbox (BB, 73.5) and WorkOS Pipes and Agents (C, 59.9).
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