Gradient Ventures

Gradient Ventures is a venture capital investment arm of Alphabet, established in 2017 and based in Mountain View, California. The fund is dedicated to investing in seed-stage and early-stage startups within the information technology, artificial intelligence, and machine learning sectors. Its primary objective is to connect these early-stage companies with Google’s extensive resources and technical expertise, thereby assisting founders in overcoming the challenges associated with developing innovative technology products. By leveraging best practices in various fields such as recruiting, marketing, design, and engineering, Gradient Ventures aims to facilitate the transformation of promising ideas into successful business ventures.

Andrew Brackin

Partner

Zach Bratun-Glennon

General Partner

Donald Harrison

Managing Partner

Eylul Kayin

Partner

Emerson Kirk

Principal

Wen-Wen Lam

Partner

Clayton Petty

Investor

Shabih Rizvi

Partner

Vig Sachidananda

Investor

Siri Srinivas

Partner

Denise Teng

Investor

Past deals in Sales Automation

Spectral

Venture Round in 2022
Developer of an AI-powered platform designed to generate and deploy smart contracts. The company's platform enables developers to create complex smart contracts with ease by using natural language, accelerating development time, and reducing errors.

Syrup Tech

Seed Round in 2022
Syrup Tech is the machine-learning decision-support engine for inventory optimization in retail. The company uses advanced demand forecasting and stochastic optimizations. Syrup Tech's software empowers brands and retailers to significantly increase full-priced inventory sell-through by (1) preventing stock-outs and end-of-season markdowns, (2) decrease unnecessary excess inventory and reduce overproduction, and (3) unlock the nuances of each of the clients' channels and optimize across them.

Zowie

Series A in 2022
Zowie Inc. develops artificial intelligence based communication automation software. The company’s products include Zowie AI, which is a tool to automate frequently asked questions that offers marketing, lead generation, and customer services; Zowie Inbox, which enables to gather customer inquiries from all communication channels and respond to them from one place; Zowie Builder; which is an all-in-one, modular tool designed for building responsive, fast, and highly customizable chatbots; and Zowie Chat, which is the live chat of the next generation. The company’s software learns, automates, and supports clients’ team and customers. Zowie Inc. was formerly known as Chatbotize sp. z o.o. and changed its name to Zowie Inc. in August 2020. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Warsaw, Poland.

Zowie

Seed Round in 2022
Zowie Inc. develops artificial intelligence based communication automation software. The company’s products include Zowie AI, which is a tool to automate frequently asked questions that offers marketing, lead generation, and customer services; Zowie Inbox, which enables to gather customer inquiries from all communication channels and respond to them from one place; Zowie Builder; which is an all-in-one, modular tool designed for building responsive, fast, and highly customizable chatbots; and Zowie Chat, which is the live chat of the next generation. The company’s software learns, automates, and supports clients’ team and customers. Zowie Inc. was formerly known as Chatbotize sp. z o.o. and changed its name to Zowie Inc. in August 2020. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Warsaw, Poland.

Mage

Seed Round in 2021
Mage is a tool that helps developers use AI and their data to make predictions. Use cases include churn prevention, product recommendations, customer lifetime value, and more. Our mission is to equip businesses with accessible AI technology so they can deliver transformational customer experiences. A mage is someone who uses magic. Advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. We empower individuals with magic by equipping them with AI technology.

RevOps

Seed Round in 2021
RevOps Inc is a company that specializes in developing a billing and core operating platform designed to enhance customer relationships. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, RevOps offers solutions such as real-time quotes, accounts receivable management, renewal updates, and approval routing. Its sales automation platform streamlines the enterprise checkout process and integrates with existing billing systems, supporting the entire sales cycle from opportunities and proposals to negotiations and deal closures. By automating manual business procedures, RevOps empowers teams to effectively understand and optimize the relationship between pricing strategies and overall business performance, allowing for more thoughtful customer engagement.

Arrows

Seed Round in 2021
Arrows is a collaborative software platform that streamlines the customer onboarding process through personalized checklists. It allows businesses to send tailored onboarding plans to each customer, complete with automated email reminders, due dates, and assigned tasks. By facilitating mutual buy-in, Arrows helps build trust during onboarding, ensuring that all parties are aligned on goals and timelines. The platform replaces complicated spreadsheets with a user-friendly internal dashboard, enabling teams to start with templates while easily customizing plans for individual customers. This approach not only enhances the onboarding experience but also ensures that important steps are not overlooked, making it an efficient solution for businesses seeking to improve customer engagement from the outset.

Reclaim.ai

Seed Round in 2021
Reclaim.ai is a calendar management tool that helps users prioritize their tasks and balance their schedules through automation and intelligence. By syncing with various productivity tools such as Google Calendar and Slack, Reclaim.ai allows users to express their scheduling needs and automatically allocates time for important tasks, whether it be completing reports or coding. The tool also provides insights into how time is spent, helping users understand their productivity patterns. Additionally, it keeps work and personal calendars in sync to prevent conflicts, ensuring that personal commitments are respected. With its focus on making calendar management efficient and user-friendly, Reclaim.ai aims to alleviate the burdens of scheduling in a modern work environment.

Chili Piper

Series B in 2021
Chili Piper is a suite of automated scheduling tools that helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments with leads. The company's intelligent concierge product offers a simple way for prospects to book a meeting or start a phone call immediately after submitting a form on their website. It uses smart rules to qualify and distribute leads to the right reps in real-time. Their software also allows companies to automate lead handoff from SDR to AE and book meetings from marketing campaigns and live events. Chili Piper was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Infinitus Systems

Series A in 2021
Developer of a healthcare AI communication tool designed to automate communication. The company's tool handles tedious, time-consuming phone calls with accuracy and easy-to-track updates, facilitates users to seamlessly submit call requests to the system and adds their tasks to the queues, enabling users to get notified as soon as each task completes or bulk-collect their results whenever needed.

Fylamynt

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a cloud workflow automation platform designed to build, run, manage and analyze workflows securely for any cloud with little to no code. The company's platform features workflow analysis, execution dashboards, built-in connectors for infrastructure-as-code tools and logs, and audit trails among others, enabling businesses to save time and money, comply with regulations and automate operations.

Chili Piper

Series A in 2020
Chili Piper is a suite of automated scheduling tools that helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments with leads. The company's intelligent concierge product offers a simple way for prospects to book a meeting or start a phone call immediately after submitting a form on their website. It uses smart rules to qualify and distribute leads to the right reps in real-time. Their software also allows companies to automate lead handoff from SDR to AE and book meetings from marketing campaigns and live events. Chili Piper was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Anvil

Series A in 2020
Anvil Foundry, Inc. is a technology company that provides a low-code, SaaS-based platform designed to automate paperwork processes for businesses. Established in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, Anvil's platform enables companies to convert traditional paper workflows into optimized online forms suitable for web and mobile use. This transformation allows non-developers to create secure online forms quickly, which can then populate original PDF documents or integrate directly with existing software systems. Anvil serves various industries, including sales, real estate, contracts, and finance, by replacing cumbersome email and attachment systems with streamlined, encrypted databases and secure websites.

Kaizo

Seed Round in 2020
Kaizo builds a performance management platform for customer support teams. It uses gamification and AI to transform support’s performance metrics. Kaizo provides tools to improve operational efficiency, boost team performance and increase employee retention. It is fully integrated into Zendesk and available via Zendesk marketplace and other CRM tools in the future. Co-founded by Dominik Blattner and Christoph Auer-Welsbach, Kaizo aims to actively guide employees towards achieving their goals and making an impact in their companies.

'nuffsaid

Seed Round in 2020
Nuffsaid helps people focus on the work that matters. Our product centralizes your work apps—email, chat, Salesforce, Jira, and more—and uses AI to prioritize the work that will move the needle in your role. We offer a Personal package and Teams upgrade.

RevOps

Seed Round in 2020
RevOps Inc is a company that specializes in developing a billing and core operating platform designed to enhance customer relationships. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, RevOps offers solutions such as real-time quotes, accounts receivable management, renewal updates, and approval routing. Its sales automation platform streamlines the enterprise checkout process and integrates with existing billing systems, supporting the entire sales cycle from opportunities and proposals to negotiations and deal closures. By automating manual business procedures, RevOps empowers teams to effectively understand and optimize the relationship between pricing strategies and overall business performance, allowing for more thoughtful customer engagement.

AllyO

Series B in 2019
As the most funded and highest valued AI for HR company worldwide; AllyO has partnered with 15% of Fortune 50 to automate talent acquisition and management. Backed by tier 1 investors such as Google, SAP, Randstad, Bain and Cervin Ventures, we’ve demonstrated hyper-growth of 4.5X year over year. AllyO’s whip-smart technology delivers smart experiences to HR teams and the audiences they serve. HR Communication is burdened with administrative routines, complicated and outdated systems, and lack of assistive resources — leaving both HR and the workforce frustrated. AllyO offers the world’s first HR Communications Platform with AI powered chatbots that help companies reduce manual work, time, and cost to engage candidates and employees, driving employee happiness, increased retention and higher and predictable staffing levels. Employers can choose across the spectrum from having manual conversations via AllyO Connect Platform to automating end-to-end Human Capital Management using AI powered Chatbots. Recruiting Automation Bots *Text to apply *Screen & Assess talent *Scheduling interviews *Talent pool engagement *Video interviewing *Employee referrals HR Automation Bots *Onboarding & training *Pulse check-ins *Ethics hotline *Internal mobility *Exit interviews AllyO utilizes deep workflow conversational AI by intelligently engaging with the workforce through texting, website chatboxes, WhatsApp, voice, and email. End results include a 91% conversation completion rate, 94% Talent satisfaction score, 3X more talent-at-risk or ethics violation cases reported, and 80% reduction in human effort. Our proprietary AI platform is purpose-built for enterprise organizations as AllyO actively supports 92% of systems of records for talent acquisition and HR. Plus, we implement the most robust security safeguards to comply with the latest standards and regulations like SOC2 and GDPR. For more information, please visit www.AllyO.com or contact hello@allyo.com

Sapling

Seed Round in 2019
Sapling is a new kind of HR platform for mid-market companies. Our software helps HR teams automate workflows, support data-driven decisions and be more strategic, and is the platform of choice for KAYAK, KPMG, Udemy and Sephora. We believe that when you create a great employee experience, HR can better support teams to do their best work.

Canvass AI

Seed Round in 2018
Canvass AI develops a predictive analytics platform that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance industrial operations across various sectors, including food and agriculture, automotive, energy, and metals and mining. The platform automates the data analysis process, enabling companies to gather insights on production efficiency, maintenance, and energy use with ease. By providing actionable insights and real-time guidance, Canvass AI empowers industrial operators to optimize their processes, improve quality, and reduce energy consumption. The technology is designed to facilitate the adoption of AI in industrial settings without requiring extensive data science expertise, thus supporting companies in lowering operational costs, improving profitability, and extending the lifespan of their assets. Founded in 2016 and based in Toronto, Canada, Canvass AI was previously known as Dat-uh Inc. and rebranded in August 2017.

AllyO

Series A in 2017
As the most funded and highest valued AI for HR company worldwide; AllyO has partnered with 15% of Fortune 50 to automate talent acquisition and management. Backed by tier 1 investors such as Google, SAP, Randstad, Bain and Cervin Ventures, we’ve demonstrated hyper-growth of 4.5X year over year. AllyO’s whip-smart technology delivers smart experiences to HR teams and the audiences they serve. HR Communication is burdened with administrative routines, complicated and outdated systems, and lack of assistive resources — leaving both HR and the workforce frustrated. AllyO offers the world’s first HR Communications Platform with AI powered chatbots that help companies reduce manual work, time, and cost to engage candidates and employees, driving employee happiness, increased retention and higher and predictable staffing levels. Employers can choose across the spectrum from having manual conversations via AllyO Connect Platform to automating end-to-end Human Capital Management using AI powered Chatbots. Recruiting Automation Bots *Text to apply *Screen & Assess talent *Scheduling interviews *Talent pool engagement *Video interviewing *Employee referrals HR Automation Bots *Onboarding & training *Pulse check-ins *Ethics hotline *Internal mobility *Exit interviews AllyO utilizes deep workflow conversational AI by intelligently engaging with the workforce through texting, website chatboxes, WhatsApp, voice, and email. End results include a 91% conversation completion rate, 94% Talent satisfaction score, 3X more talent-at-risk or ethics violation cases reported, and 80% reduction in human effort. Our proprietary AI platform is purpose-built for enterprise organizations as AllyO actively supports 92% of systems of records for talent acquisition and HR. Plus, we implement the most robust security safeguards to comply with the latest standards and regulations like SOC2 and GDPR. For more information, please visit www.AllyO.com or contact hello@allyo.com
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