Stephanie Friedman
Angel Investor
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Stephanie Friedman is a seed investor in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and CMS. Investor, advisor / board director and startup executive with 20 years of operating experience (sales, marketing, business development, operations and general management). Specific focus on enterprise software, SaaS, developer tool and devops as well as collaboration / future of work. Helped build 3 successful startups as an operator;stayed on after one acquisition to manage operations for a $380M, 220 salesperson business as part of a public company. Joined Xamarin as first non-engineering hire and built sales and customer success organization from zero to almost $50M in run rate sales in less than 4 years - built team from zero to 100 sales and customer success people; started out with high-velocity SMB focused inside sales sales model, and over time added midmarket, hybrid and later on traditional enterprise field team as well as partner sales team. Joined Microsoft in General Manager role responsible for the global strategy and go-to-market for Mobile Application Development after Xamarin acquisition in March of 2016.Lived and worked in several countries (France, Italy, Spain, Germany, USA and Paraguay), fluent in five languages (English, Spanish, French, Italian, German), MBA in International Business.Took 12 month to travel the world between two startups; passionate about photography, horses, animal welfare and dance (travel blog: shetravels.org).Interested in early stage startups.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Stephanie Friedman invests in
Stages Stephanie Friedman invests in
Countries Stephanie Friedman invests in
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Round size
- Seed
- $3M–$5M
- Series A
- $9.3M–$21M
Investment Focus
Stage
- Seed 4 (50%)
- Series A 3 (38%)
- Series B 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 6 (75%)
- Canada 1 (13%)
- Israel 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Vantage is a service that helps businesses analyze and reduce their AWS costs. Vantage's mission is to build a suite of tools that make it easy for engineering, leadership, and finance to analyze, collaborate on and optimize their cloud infrastructure costs. | $4M / Seed / Jun 22, 2021 | ||
| Komodor tracks changes and alerts across the Kubernetes stack and analyzes their effect. | $21M / Series A / Jun 10, 2021 | ||
| Transform is the first centralized ‘metrics store’ that empowers data analysts to deliver accurate, timely, confident, and fast insights. The metrics store we’ve built is a centralized repository that enables metrics definitions in code, supports life-cycle management, and makes data accessible to every other tool in the modern data stack. We notonly make data trustworthy, but we also uncover relevant insights and context so that all teams can stay on the same page and make the best decisions possible. | $20M / Series A / Jan 19, 2021 | ||
| Sanity is the platform for structured content that lets teams build exceptional digital experiences. By treating content as data, modern organizations use our APIs to build optimal editing workflows and share content between systems to increase digital velocity. Our mission is to be the most versatile system for creating and distributing digitalcontent to any device, application or channel..Sanity was founded in Norway and has offices in Oslo and San Francisco. | $9.3M / Series A / Oct 14, 2020 | ||
| Swantide provides a new way to design, build and manage their GTM systems. | Seed / Jul 07, 2020 | ||
| Tailscale develops a software-defined networking platform that simplifies the creation of secure private networks using the WireGuard protocol. Its solution enables devices to connect directly through peer-to-peer mesh networking, reducing latency and eliminating the need for traditional VPN configurations. The platform integrates with existingidentity providers, allowing for streamlined user authentication and access control. Tailscale supports various operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, and offers compatibility with cloud services and Kubernetes environments. The company emphasizes ease of use and scalability, catering to teams and organizations seeking straightforward network security solutions. Tailscale builds on top of WireGuard’s Noise protocol encryption, a peer-reviewed and trusted standard. Their vision is to remove overhead and complexity from this long tail of software and operational problems that people face every day. | $3M / Seed / Apr 05, 2020 | ||
| Usage-based billing. | $5M / Seed / Dec 23, 2019 | ||
| Netlify is a Platform as a Service that builds, deploys, and hosts static websites and apps. Netlify is a unified platform that automates code to create high-performant, easily-maintainable sites and web-apps. By unifying the elements of the modern decoupled web, from local development to advanced edge logic.Netlify was founded in 2014 and isbased in San Francisco, California. | $30M / Series B / Oct 09, 2018 |
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FAQ
What does Stephanie Friedman invest in?
Stephanie Friedman invests primarily in Software, CMS and CRM startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Stephanie Friedman's check size?
Stephanie Friedman typically joins rounds of $3M–$5M at Seed and $9.3M–$21M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Stephanie Friedman participates in.
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When did Stephanie Friedman last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Stephanie Friedman closed in Jun 2021. Shizune tracks 8 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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