# Daniel Friedland

> Daniel Friedland is a seed investor at Goldcrest Capital backing Mobile and Software. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Goldcrest Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goldcrest-capital-2)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-friedland-7237137/

Daniel Friedland is a seed investor at Goldcrest Capital in San Francisco focused on Mobile and Software. Daniel Friedland is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Goldcrest Capital. He is also a Member of Board of Directors at Sourcegraph.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 1 | 14% |
| Software | 1 | 14% |
| CleanTech | 1 | 14% |
| Mobile Apps | 1 | 14% |
| Clean Energy | 1 | 14% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Series B | 2 | 29% |
| Series C | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 29% |
| Cayman Islands | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Unblock | Unblock is a climate technology company that offers a solution to mitigate emissions. | $13.5M | Seed | Jul 08, 2025 |  |
| Sourcegraph | Sourcegraph makes universal code search so developers can work on solving problems, not struggle with finding code. With rapidly growing codebases, a proliferating number of repos, multiple languages and file formats, and a wide variety of developer tools, Sourcegraph empowers developers to quickly find, fix, and better understand all code faster.Code navigation and code exploration improve developer productivity, contextual code intelligence enables better code reviews and onboarding for new hires, and code change campaigns automate large-scale changes. Sourcegraph is backed by top-tier investors including Sequoia Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Goldcrest Capital, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. It was founded by Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu in 2013 and is a remote workplace with headquarters in San Francisco, California. | $23M | Series B | Mar 03, 2020 |  |
| Bird | Bird designs a vehicle sharing platform that provides affordable transportation solutions to communities across the world. The company's platform coordinates with cities to provide citizens with access to shared personal electric vehicles that can be picked up and dropped off anywhere, enabling users to receive sustainable andenvironment-friendly local transport. | $158M | Series C | Jun 28, 2018 |  |
| Bird | Bird designs a vehicle sharing platform that provides affordable transportation solutions to communities across the world. The company's platform coordinates with cities to provide citizens with access to shared personal electric vehicles that can be picked up and dropped off anywhere, enabling users to receive sustainable andenvironment-friendly local transport. | $100M | Series B | Mar 09, 2018 |  |
| Bird | Bird designs a vehicle sharing platform that provides affordable transportation solutions to communities across the world. The company's platform coordinates with cities to provide citizens with access to shared personal electric vehicles that can be picked up and dropped off anywhere, enabling users to receive sustainable andenvironment-friendly local transport. | $15M | Series A | Oct 30, 2017 |  |
| Sourcegraph | Sourcegraph makes universal code search so developers can work on solving problems, not struggle with finding code. With rapidly growing codebases, a proliferating number of repos, multiple languages and file formats, and a wide variety of developer tools, Sourcegraph empowers developers to quickly find, fix, and better understand all code faster.Code navigation and code exploration improve developer productivity, contextual code intelligence enables better code reviews and onboarding for new hires, and code change campaigns automate large-scale changes. Sourcegraph is backed by top-tier investors including Sequoia Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Goldcrest Capital, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. It was founded by Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu in 2013 and is a remote workplace with headquarters in San Francisco, California. | $20M | Series A | Oct 06, 2017 |  |
| Bird | Bird designs a vehicle sharing platform that provides affordable transportation solutions to communities across the world. The company's platform coordinates with cities to provide citizens with access to shared personal electric vehicles that can be picked up and dropped off anywhere, enabling users to receive sustainable andenvironment-friendly local transport. |  | Seed | Jun 09, 2017 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Craft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craft-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Tusk Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tusk-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Redpoint](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redpoint-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Valor Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valor-equity-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alate Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alate-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Goldcrest Capital

VC Fund · Dallas, United States

Goldcrest is a venture capital fund that invests in private technology companies. The firm was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, USA.

4 contacts available at Goldcrest Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Ross | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-ross |
| Daniel Friedland | Co-Founder and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-friedland |
| Evan Lowenstein | Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evan-lowenstein |
| Steve Salis | Limited Partner; Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-salis |

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## FAQ

### What does Daniel Friedland invest in?

Daniel Friedland invests primarily in Mobile, Software and CleanTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.

### When did Daniel Friedland last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Daniel Friedland closed in Jul 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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