Partner
Patri Friedman
Founder and General Partner, Pronomos Capital
- Firm
- Pronomos Capital
- Title
- Founder and General Partner
- Role
- General partner
- Known as
- Investor
Record updated 22 September 2026
About
Patri Friedman spent 10 years coding at Google, starting in 2004, and has run the angel fund ZIG since 2011. His personal investments include Palantir (2009 => IPO 2020) and Matterport (2011 => IPO 2021). In 2008, he founded the Seasteading Institute with seed funding from Peter Thiel, in 2009 started Ephemerisle, the largest self-organizing festival on water, and in 2011 co-founded Future Cities Development which had the first MOU for a modern charter city in 2012. Patri is on the board of the Startup Societies Foundation and advises a variety of new governance projects. He speaks and interviews regularly around the world. He has a BS in Math from Harvey Mudd, an MS in CS from Stanford, and an MBA.
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