Jared Friedman
Group Partner @ Y Combinator
San Francisco, United States
Jared Friedman is a pre-seed investor at Y Combinator in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Jared Friedman is the Managing Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Scribd com as Co-Founder, CTO. Jared attended Harvard University, where he took AB Computer Science Economics.
- Total investments:
- 244
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 64%
Last updated:
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Industries Jared Friedman invests in
Stages Jared Friedman invests in
Countries Jared Friedman invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$6.5M
- Pre-Seed
- $500k–$500k
- Series A
- $5M–$29M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 104 (43%)
- Software 89 (36%)
- Information Technology 42 (17%)
- SaaS 31 (13%)
- Developer Tools 20 (8%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 155 (64%)
- Seed 59 (24%)
- Series A 17 (7%)
- Series B 5 (2%)
- Series C 3 (1%)
Country
- United States 180 (74%)
- United Kingdom 3 (1%)
- India 2 (1%)
- Sweden 2 (1%)
- Kenya 1 (0%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Blacksmith provides cloud infrastructure for continuous integration, enabling developers to build, test, and deploy software. | $66M / Series C / Oct 21, 2026 | ||
| Ultra.tech is creating AI robots automate e-commerce tasks like packaging, boosting efficiency and reducing labor. | $50M / Series A / Oct 09, 2026 | ||
| tash is an investment platform that offers professionally managed indices and fractional shares of iconic trading cards. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Waybill is an AI-powered inventory platform that automates sourcing, shipping, customs, and inventory management for deep-tech teams. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Atlia provides AI-native management services for short-term rental properties listed on platforms such as Airbnb and Vrbo. Its service coordinates guest communication, cleaning and turnover activities, maintenance management, and guest inquiries. Atlia combines property-specific software with local operating teams to manage routine rental operations for property owners. The company charges a flat management fee for these services. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Vestris is a real estate technology and artificial intelligence company that develops an AI-powered title search and real estate transaction automation platform that automates the real estate title and closing workflow. The platform ingests ratified contracts, parses documents, and creates structured addendums. It opens portals for agents, buyers, and sellers, collects required information, and manages related communication. Browser-based agents log into county and tax systems to pull records and support tax, water, and HOA proration. Vestris generates title abstracts, drafts Schedules A and B, and assembles title commitments for underwriter review. It also reconciles settlement statements, balances files, and reviews closing disclosures to assemble lender-ready packages for title and settlement firms. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Rise Reforming develops technology to convert stranded biogas and post‑industrial plastic waste into useful chemicals. The company designs modular plants that fit inside shipping containers to process raw biogas from wastewater facilities, farms, and landfills on site. Its systems produce chemicals such as dimethyl ether and methanol for downstream industrial uses. Rise Reforming focuses on replacing fossil fuel–derived feedstocks with waste‑based inputs for chemical production. Its process is intended for biogas producers, waste management operators, and industrial partners seeking low‑carbon chemical sourcing and utilization of existing waste streams. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Luca IQ is a modern tax software platform for CPA firms, covering client intake, tax preparation, review, and e-filing. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Verdant is an AI infrastructure and workflow automation platform for local government permitting and planning. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Amorphic Labs develops AI agents that create personalized product demonstration videos for sales and customer success teams. The service researches account and prospect context, adapts workflows and demonstration data, and navigates a connected application to record a walkthrough. It generates scripts, narration, captions, and shareable video outputs for pre-sales, active deals, onboarding, customer support, documentation, and internal knowledge sharing. Vendors can configure workflows, narration styles, sandbox environments, and connected applications through the service. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Y Combinator
Y Combinator invests a standard amount of capital in exchange for equity and through uncapped safe agreements. Participants engage in a three-month intensive cycle that focuses on product development and preparations for fundraising. The firm offers access to a private networking platform for knowledge sharing and hosts events featuring speakers from various sectors. This program culminates in a presentation event where founders showcase their businesses to a curated group of investors.
Y Combinator Contacts
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Boris Jabes
Visiting Partner
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Luther Lowe
Head of Public Policy
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Max Kolysh
Visiting Partner
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Brad Flora
Group Partner
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Calvin French-Owen
Visiting Group Partner
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FAQ
What does Jared Friedman invest in?
Jared Friedman invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 244 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Jared Friedman invest in?
Jared Friedman typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$6.5M at Seed, $500k–$500k at Pre-Seed and $5M–$29M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Jared Friedman's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Jared Friedman took part in.
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When did Jared Friedman last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jared Friedman closed in Oct 2026. Shizune tracks 244 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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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 Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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