# Charles W. Friedland

> Charles W. Friedland is a Series C investor at Glynn Capital Management backing FinTech. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Glynn Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glynn-capital-management)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-friedland/

Charles W. Friedland is a Series C investor at Glynn Capital Management in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Machine Learning. Charles Friedland is the Venture and Growth at Glynn Capital Management. Took up BA in Economics; Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 29% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 29% |
| Content | 1 | 14% |
| Internet | 1 | 14% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 2 | 29% |
| Series D | 2 | 29% |
| Angel | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Infleqtion | Infleqtion, with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia, delivers high-value quantum information precisely where it is needed. By operating at the Edge, our software-configured, quantum-enabled products deliver unmatched levels of precision and power, generating streams of high-value information for commercial organizations,the United States, and allied governments. With 17 years of ColdQuanta's pioneering quantum research as our foundation, our hardware products and AI-powered solutions address critical market needs in positioning, navigating, and timing, global communication security and efficiency, resilient energy distribution, and accelerated quantum computing. Learn how Infleqtion is revolutionizing how we communicate, navigate, and discover at www.Infleqtion.com and connect with us on LinkedIn. | $100M | Series C | Jun 02, 2025 | https://www.coldquanta.com/ |
| Human Interest | Human Interest is a 401(k) provider that makes it easy for small and medium-sized businesses to help their employees save for retirement.The company built an end-to-end technology to solve administrative and compliance problems for small and medium-sized businesses. It also offers easy and affordable employee retirement plans and helped thousandsof businesses across America to offer retirement accounts to their employees.In 2015, the San Francisco, California-headquartered company was formed by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee. | $200M | Series D | Aug 04, 2021 | https://humaninterest.com/ |
| Hive | Hive is the leading provider of cloud-based AI solutions to understand, search, and generate content, and is trusted by hundreds of the world’s largest and most innovative organizations. The company empowers developers with a portfolio of best-in-class, pre-trained AI models, serving billions of customer API requests every month. Hive also offersturnkey software powered by proprietary AI models and datasets, unlocking breakthrough applications for critical business needs with deep learning and generative AI. Collectively, Hive’s technology is transforming approaches to platform integrity / content moderation (including AI-generated content detection), brand protection, sponsorship measurement, context-based ad targeting, and more.Hive has raised over $120M in capital from leading investors, including General Catalyst, 8VC, Glynn Capital, Bain & Company, Visa Ventures, and others. In April 2021, Hive announced a $50M Series D at a $2B valuation. The San Francisco-based company has 175+ full-time employees globally, in addition to a distributed workforce of more than 2.5 million global contributors that supports data labeling operations.For more information, visit thehive.ai or follow on LinkedIn. | $50M | Series D | Apr 21, 2021 | https://thehive.ai/ |
| Human Interest | Human Interest is a 401(k) provider that makes it easy for small and medium-sized businesses to help their employees save for retirement.The company built an end-to-end technology to solve administrative and compliance problems for small and medium-sized businesses. It also offers easy and affordable employee retirement plans and helped thousandsof businesses across America to offer retirement accounts to their employees.In 2015, the San Francisco, California-headquartered company was formed by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee. | $55M | Series C | Feb 11, 2021 | https://humaninterest.com/ |
| Human Interest | Human Interest is a 401(k) provider that makes it easy for small and medium-sized businesses to help their employees save for retirement.The company built an end-to-end technology to solve administrative and compliance problems for small and medium-sized businesses. It also offers easy and affordable employee retirement plans and helped thousandsof businesses across America to offer retirement accounts to their employees.In 2015, the San Francisco, California-headquartered company was formed by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee. | $10M | Series C | May 20, 2020 | https://humaninterest.com/ |
| Human Interest | Human Interest is a 401(k) provider that makes it easy for small and medium-sized businesses to help their employees save for retirement.The company built an end-to-end technology to solve administrative and compliance problems for small and medium-sized businesses. It also offers easy and affordable employee retirement plans and helped thousandsof businesses across America to offer retirement accounts to their employees.In 2015, the San Francisco, California-headquartered company was formed by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee. | $105M | Series C | Mar 11, 2020 | https://humaninterest.com/ |
| LÜK Network | LÜK is a talent marketplace for the fashion and entertainment industries (models, photographers, stylists, hair and makeup artists, etc.). LÜK has assembled the top talent agencies into one location for clients to easily book talent for photo/video shoots. Think Expedia, but for professional talent. Now, LÜK is becoming the payments platformfor the entire industry. Currently, it takes talent agencies 60-150 days to get paid. LÜK is factoring the receivables of the 150 talent agencies in their network to get them paid out same day. | $390K | Angel | May 01, 2017 | https://luknetwork.com/ |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [NewView Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/newview-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Uncork Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softtech-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Oberndorf Enterprises](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oberndorf-enterprises) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TRAC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trac-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [U.S. Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/us-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bain & Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-co) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Glynn Capital Management

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Glynn Capital Management focuses on investing in leading private and public technology growth companies. Glynn Capital Management seeks to be long-term investors in a limited number of excellent companies with management teams, sustainable business models, and long-term growth potential.

5 contacts available at Glynn Capital Management.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Betty Lee | Finance & Tax Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betty-lee |
| Charles W. Friedland | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-w-friedland |
| David Glynn | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-glynn |
| Heather Loomis Tighe | Partner, Hybrid Investments | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heather-loomis-tighe |
| Jacob Ziemann | Partner – Portfolio Manager Public Equities | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacob-ziemann |

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## FAQ

### What does Charles W. Friedland invest in?

Charles W. Friedland invests primarily in FinTech, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series C and Series D stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Charles W. Friedland last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Charles W. Friedland closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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