# Bryan Frist

> Bryan Frist is a seed investor at Friále (Nashville) backing Health Care and Biotechnology. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Friále](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/friale)
- Location: Nashville, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-frist-b2514017/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bryan.frist

Bryan Frist is a seed investor at Friále in Nashville focused on Health Care and Biotechnology. Bryan Frist is the Founder & Managing Partner of Friále.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 3 | 23% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 23% |
| Medical | 2 | 15% |
| Genetics | 2 | 15% |
| Marketplace | 2 | 15% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 38% |
| Series A | 4 | 31% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 15% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 62% |
| India | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Blaze.tech | Blaze is the smarter no-code platform for teams to build internal tools. Create beautiful client portals, admin panels, inventory management systems, and automated workflows without needing to write any code. Trusted by enterprise companies for security and scale. Loved by startup entrepreneurs for being so easy to use and build applications. | $5M | Pre-Seed | Aug 03, 2026 |  |
| Myria | Annually, the wealthiest 300,000 people spend $1.3 million each on their lifestyle, but still struggle to find everything they want. - The most sought-after products, services, and experiences are never listed online. - Private events, private clubs, and numerous other categories are not accessible. - The best people don't need the web tofind clients or jobs. Myria is a private marketplace & community where all participants are fully vetted. Our offers are exclusive and otherwise unavailable online. Myria helps off-market sellers reach the nicest, richest, and most quailed buyers on Earth. In turn, we help the world’s most successful people find the best of everything and get the most out of life. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Mar 21, 2022 |  |
| Porter Road Butcher | Porter Road is a omnichannel whole animal butcher changing the broken food system, by working directly with farmers to offer exceptional, sustainably raised meat direct to consumer.  The company was founded by James Peisker and Chris Carter. | $10M | Series A | Mar 08, 2021 |  |
| BillionToOne | BillionToOne is a precision diagnostics company that quantifies biology to create molecular diagnostics accurate, efficient, and accessible for all. The company's patent-pending molecular counter platform is a technology platform that can accurately count the DNA molecules to the single-count level. BillionToOne's mission is to makepre-natal testing safe and affordable for every expecting mother. Its novel technology can detect even single-gene disorders such as thalassemia through a simple blood test. They are replacing amniocentesis, an invasive and risky procedure that has a high miscarriage risk, with a safe and affordable blood test, starting in developing countries.BillionToOne was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. | $15M | Series A | Mar 10, 2020 |  |
| C16 Biosciences | C16 Biosciences is a biotechnology firm that uses microbiology to brew sustainable alternatives to palm oil.Utilizing its exclusive platform, the company is generating innovative ingredients without concessions for top global consumer goods manufacturers. Recently, they introduced the Palmless™ platform for sustainable ingredients, along withtheir inaugural biodesigned ingredient, Torula oil—a premium bioactive oil with clinically proven benefits for enhancing skin and hair health. | $20M | Series A | Mar 02, 2020 |  |
| Lively | Lively is a modern Health Savings Account (HSA) platform for employers and individuals. Lively’s user-centric solution creates an intuitive user experience allowing consumers to get the most out of their HSA. | $27M | Series B | Oct 16, 2019 |  |
| Medinas Health | Medinas Health is a pre-owned medical equipment marketplace that helps to manage the sales process while saving time and money. The company is a technology-driven asset management and remarketing solutions for hospitals. Medinas Health was founded in 2017 and is based in Berkeley, California. | $1M | Seed | Mar 01, 2019 |  |
| Medinas Health | Medinas Health is a pre-owned medical equipment marketplace that helps to manage the sales process while saving time and money. The company is a technology-driven asset management and remarketing solutions for hospitals. Medinas Health was founded in 2017 and is based in Berkeley, California. | $2.5M | Seed | Oct 18, 2018 |  |
| C16 Biosciences | C16 Biosciences is a biotechnology firm that uses microbiology to brew sustainable alternatives to palm oil.Utilizing its exclusive platform, the company is generating innovative ingredients without concessions for top global consumer goods manufacturers. Recently, they introduced the Palmless™ platform for sustainable ingredients, along withtheir inaugural biodesigned ingredient, Torula oil—a premium bioactive oil with clinically proven benefits for enhancing skin and hair health. | $4M | Seed | Aug 20, 2018 |  |
| Groww | Groww is an investment platform that offers a new way of investing money with stockbroking and direct mutual funds.The platform provides insights about mutual funds, systematic investment planning, equity-linked savings, and everything from the personal finance world, which helps new investors make investing simple by maintaining a simplifieduser interface to make investing easy, accessible, transparent, and paperless, enabling users to invest in mutual funds without any hassles. Customers can also invest in gold and US stocks through the Groww platform. The company is also a part of Y Combinator’s winter 2018 batch.Founded in 2017 by Lalit Keshre, Harsh Jain, Neeraj Singh, and Ishan Bansal, the company was launched in Bengaluru, Karnataka. | $1.6M | Seed | Jul 09, 2018 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Backend Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backend-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Max Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basset-investment-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Breakthrough Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakthrough-energy-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Civilization Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/civilization-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DCVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/data-collective) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Friále

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Friále invest in start-ups all over the world who are doing big things. They act like the investors they would want as founders. They know what this is, because they are founders themselves. They usually invest at the seed stage, with the aim to follow-on as the company grows.

1 contacts available at Friále.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bryan Frist | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryan-frist |

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## FAQ

### What does Bryan Frist invest in?

Bryan Frist invests primarily in Health Care, Biotechnology and Medical startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Bryan Frist last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bryan Frist closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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