Gabe Fried (he/him)

Currently taking time to figure out what is next. Open to new ideas. @gabefried.bsky.social

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2025
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Jan 2019
Founded on the principle of democratizing access—first to music in 1999, now to creative expertise in 2025—Napster has consistently been at the forefront of transformational technology shifts that expand markets and empower users. The company’s latest platform turns passive consumers into active creators, providing the interface layer between foundation AI models and human creativity. For more information, visit napster.com.
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2025
Investor
Jun 2025
ClearFactr empowers teams of software developers and business experts to bring powerful spreadsheet-like solutions to market faster than ever before, all the while eliminating a myriad of operational risks. It features unique, patented, enterprise-focused capabilities surrounding the physical separation of data and compute, modeling clarity, scenario and sensitivity analysis, fine-grained entitlements, and more.
2023
Board Member
Sep 2023
For over 50 years, our organization and members have unapologetically helped lead the charge on both the state and national levels to protect and advance reproductive freedom through grassroots organizing, electoral change, and political advocacy. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by our more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.
2019
Investor
Jan 2019
Founded on the principle of democratizing access—first to music in 1999, now to creative expertise in 2025—Napster has consistently been at the forefront of transformational technology shifts that expand markets and empower users. The company’s latest platform turns passive consumers into active creators, providing the interface layer between foundation AI models and human creativity. For more information, visit napster.com.
2017
Owner
Jan 2017
Previously owned by Hillerich & Bradsby, who famously own the Louisville Slugger bat brand, PowerBilt is a golf brand with a rich 100-year history. Hilco Streambank acquired the PowerBilt brand from H&B in 2016. Since acquiring the brand, Hilco Streambank is actively expanding the breadth of the Powerbilt brand by adding new regional licensees and expanding the categories under the Powerbilt brand trademark to include soft goods/apparel, and into other areas outside of golf such as fitness and performance apparel and equipment. In addition, Hilco Streambank is working to make the PowerBilt brand more innovative and high tech with options for all skill sets and age groups, while continuing to build upon and enrich the brand’s storied history.
2005
Managing Director
Oct 2005
Originally founded nearly 15 years ago as a turnaround and restructuring firm; XRoads Solutions Group today offers a range of professional services that enhance the value of both distressed and healthy companies. The firm’s heritage in turnaround engagements is the source of its distinctive strengths that provide superior results to healthy & distressed clients alike – passion for effective, sustainable and pragmatic implementation, speed to value and the alignment of our interests to that of our clients – all ensuring significant value-creation across a broad array of industries.
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