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Nat Friedman portfolio: 6 rounds in AI and data

Rounds where Nat Friedman led or took part, newest first. Led: 1.

  1. Scale AI raises $1B Series F, . Data infrastructure. Led by Accel. Scale AI provides training data, data labeling and evaluation services for AI model builders and government customers.
  2. Suno raises $125M, . AI models. Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Suno builds an AI music creation app that generates full songs from text prompts.
  3. Runpod raises $20M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Led by Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital. Runpod is a GPU cloud where developers rent compute and run serverless AI inference and training jobs.
  4. Hume AI raises $50M Series B, . AI models. Led by EQT Ventures. Hume AI builds voice AI models that measure and respond to emotional expression in speech.
  5. ElevenLabs raises $80M Series B, . AI models. Led by Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross. ElevenLabs develops AI voice models for text to speech, dubbing and conversational voice agents.
  6. Perplexity raises $74M, . AI apps. Led by IVP. Runs an AI answer engine that searches the web and cites its sources.