Gradient Ventures

Gradient Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on artificial intelligence and related technologies. Founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, it invests in seed- and early-stage information technology, artificial intelligence, and machine learning companies. The firm supports founders with access to technical leadership and practical resources, including guidance on recruiting, marketing, design, and engineering to help bring innovative AI products to market. As Google's AI-focused venture partner, Gradient Ventures connects portfolio companies to resources, networks and expertise to navigate development and scale, aiming to advance disruptive ideas that redefine industries and enhance operational capabilities.

Andrew Brackin

Partner

Zach Bratun-Glennon

General Partner

Zachary Bratun-Glennon JD

Partner

Eylul Kayin

Partner

Emerson Kirk

Investor

Past deals in Data Mining

Larridin

Series A in 2025
Larridin is a technology company that offers an AI-powered platform designed to optimize workforce productivity and operational efficiency for mid-to-large enterprises. Its core product, the Larridin Scorecard, provides a real-time, dynamic view of productivity and operational efficiency, similar to a FICO score for businesses. This scorecard, along with AI-driven insights and natural language query capabilities, helps leaders make informed decisions, optimize talent deployment, and identify high-impact AI opportunities. The platform integrates with multiple enterprise systems, offering a comprehensive view of performance across departments and geographies. Larridin serves CEOs, CFOs, CHROs, and CIOs in industries such as technology, financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing. The company is led by a team of experienced entrepreneurs and is backed by prominent investors, including Andreessen Horowitz.

Arva AI

Seed Round in 2025
Arva AI specializes in streamlining business onboarding for banks and fintech companies. Its AI-driven platform automates low and medium-risk Know Your Business (KYB) processes, reducing review times from hours to seconds and operational costs by 80%. The platform offers features such as web due diligence, document intelligence, fraud checks, and data enrichment, ensuring compliance with regulations while expediting customer onboarding.

BackOps AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
BackOps AI specializes in streamlining back-office operations for businesses. It develops and deploys AI-driven operational automation tools that integrate real-time data analytics, task automation, and AI-driven workflows. This enables companies to optimize task management across various operational functions, reduce manual workloads, and enhance decision-making processes, ultimately leading to increased business efficiency.

Roe AI

Seed Round in 2024
Roe AI develops an AI-native platform for processing unstructured data stored in blob storage and CRMs. Its self-evolving AI engine transforms data intelligently, offering customizable models, privacy features, and scalability to help businesses make informed decisions, create engaging content, and manage data effectively.

Foundational

Seed Round in 2024
Foundational is a data management platform that helps developers understand the lineage and downstream impact of code changes. Addressing data issues can be both expensive and needlessly intricate. Foundational's Code Intelligence Engine scrutinizes code alterations to identify issues, unveil concealed dependencies, and assess downstream ramifications well in advance of any interaction with live data. Foundational's code-based data lineage extends beyond the conventional coverage offered by standard warehouse and BI tools, encompassing a comprehensive analysis across various platforms such as Airflow, Spark, dbt, and more. This solution provides column-level lineage throughout the entire data stack. Notably, the process is fully automated, requiring zero code or configuration changes. The lineage information remains consistently up-to-date, seamlessly reflecting the latest code merged into the system.

Send AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Send AI is a developer of a sophisticated document processing platform that addresses the complexities of handling various text files. Unlike traditional single-page processing, the company’s platform enables users to manage multi-step workflows for extracting meaningful information from documents. It offers functionalities such as splitting bundled PDFs or emails, classifying content, rotating, deskewing, and removing scanned pages. Additionally, Send AI allows for the validation and enrichment of data using custom logic tailored to individual requirements. By leveraging natural language processing models, the platform automates the classification and extraction of relevant data, significantly improving the efficiency of processing large volumes of unstructured text documents. Users can configure and train their own setups while maintaining human oversight, ensuring control throughout the document handling process.

Spade

Series A in 2023
Spade provides a transaction data enrichment platform powered by a large first-party data network. Its API delivers real-time, granular card-transaction details, including merchant identity, category, and geolocation, enabling issuers, anti-fraud providers, and fintechs to improve authorization rates, reduce fraud, and innovate with richer payment insights.

Mine

Series B in 2023
Mine is a technology company focused on empowering individuals to take control of their personal data online. The platform allows users to quickly identify companies that hold their sensitive information, including personal, financial, and health data. By integrating with users' email, Mine scans interactions to determine potential data holdings and facilitates a simple process for users to request data deletion from those companies. This capability supports users' rights to privacy and helps minimize their online exposure, reducing potential risks associated with data breaches and misuse. Ultimately, Mine promotes the concept of data ownership as a fundamental human right, ensuring that individuals can manage their personal information effectively.

Dozer

Seed Round in 2023
Building powerful data apps requires time and the integration of multiple tools. Dozer is an open-source platform that gives you a simple platform to transform, cache, and integrate data into your applications. Just connect any data source, combine them in real-time and instantly get low-latency Data APIs. All with just a simple configuration!

Mage

Venture Round in 2023
Mage is a developer of an open-source coding tool that empowers businesses to leverage artificial intelligence for predictive analytics. The platform enables users to create and deploy machine-learning models efficiently, allowing for applications in areas such as churn prevention, product recommendations, and customer lifetime value assessment. By facilitating the import and transformation of data from various sources, Mage's technology simplifies the process of building, training, and integrating data into applications. The company's mission is to make AI technology accessible, enabling businesses to enhance customer experiences through innovative solutions.

InfinyOn

Seed Round in 2022
InfinyOn is a developer of a programmable data streaming platform that facilitates the management of data movement among users, services, and locations. The platform is designed to empower app developers, data engineers, and IT operators by enabling them to build and deploy advanced services that enhance decision-making processes and improve customer experiences. InfinyOn's technology allows organizations to normalize, protect, and refine data records while in transit, ensuring efficient data flow from producers to consumers.

Stairwell

Series B in 2022
Stairwell, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in developing software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions designed to enhance threat detection and response capabilities for organizations. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Stairwell offers an innovative platform that automates threat analysis by treating all files as suspicious and preserving them as evidence. This approach allows security teams to conduct comprehensive compromise assessments rapidly, delivering timely reports on potential threats and their impact on the organization. The company's technology leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide actionable insights, enabling security professionals to effectively track threats and their variants across their environments. Recognized as one of the most innovative companies of 2023 by Fast Company, Stairwell aims to empower security teams with advanced tools that enhance their ability to respond to cybersecurity incidents efficiently.

Flatfile

Series B in 2022
Flatfile is a data onboarding platform that enables developers to validate, map, and import customer data from spreadsheets into software applications. It embeds a JavaScript snippet to add an import button in web apps and provides a secure Concierge workspace for collaboration to manage data ingestion. The platform supports CSV, XLS, and TSV uploads, allows users to configure a target model for data validation, and learns over time to improve accuracy. It is API-first and widely adopted by hundreds of companies, including AstraZeneca, Square, and Sage.

Spade

Seed Round in 2022
Spade provides a transaction data enrichment platform powered by a large first-party data network. Its API delivers real-time, granular card-transaction details, including merchant identity, category, and geolocation, enabling issuers, anti-fraud providers, and fintechs to improve authorization rates, reduce fraud, and innovate with richer payment insights.

Spade

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Spade provides a transaction data enrichment platform powered by a large first-party data network. Its API delivers real-time, granular card-transaction details, including merchant identity, category, and geolocation, enabling issuers, anti-fraud providers, and fintechs to improve authorization rates, reduce fraud, and innovate with richer payment insights.

Mage

Seed Round in 2021
Mage is a developer of an open-source coding tool that empowers businesses to leverage artificial intelligence for predictive analytics. The platform enables users to create and deploy machine-learning models efficiently, allowing for applications in areas such as churn prevention, product recommendations, and customer lifetime value assessment. By facilitating the import and transformation of data from various sources, Mage's technology simplifies the process of building, training, and integrating data into applications. The company's mission is to make AI technology accessible, enabling businesses to enhance customer experiences through innovative solutions.

Stairwell

Series A in 2021
Stairwell, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in developing software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions designed to enhance threat detection and response capabilities for organizations. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Stairwell offers an innovative platform that automates threat analysis by treating all files as suspicious and preserving them as evidence. This approach allows security teams to conduct comprehensive compromise assessments rapidly, delivering timely reports on potential threats and their impact on the organization. The company's technology leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide actionable insights, enabling security professionals to effectively track threats and their variants across their environments. Recognized as one of the most innovative companies of 2023 by Fast Company, Stairwell aims to empower security teams with advanced tools that enhance their ability to respond to cybersecurity incidents efficiently.

UnitQ

Series B in 2021
UnitQ is a product quality monitoring platform that leverages artificial intelligence to provide real-time insights into user feedback across multiple channels, languages, and regions. Headquartered in the United States, the company offers a software solution that helps organizations identify, quantify, and prioritize product bugs. By utilizing machine learning, UnitQ's platform efficiently processes omnichannel feedback, highlighting critical issues and categorizing them in a customizable dashboard. This enables companies to understand the impact of product launches and ongoing features, allowing them to address quality issues promptly and enhance user retention while reducing support ticket volumes.

Unit21

Series B in 2021
Unit21 Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018 that develops a no-code platform designed to streamline risk and compliance operations for businesses. The platform features an application programming interface and a dashboard that enable users to detect and manage money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across various industries. In addition to risk detection, Unit21's solutions encompass case management, transaction monitoring, identity verification, operations management, as well as analytics and reporting capabilities. The company emphasizes security, employing best practices to safeguard its systems against potential threats.

Streamlit

Series B in 2021
Streamlit, Inc. is a company that provides an open-source application framework specifically designed for data scientists and machine learning engineers. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, Streamlit enables users to develop and deploy data science applications quickly and efficiently. Its framework allows for the creation of performant applications in just a few hours, facilitating the development of custom applications that enable interaction with data models. Streamlit's focus is on streamlining the process of building data applications, making it easier for professionals in the field to leverage their data effectively.

Fidap

Seed Round in 2021
Fidap is a data analytics platform that enables data scientists and engineers to access billions of rows of external data on demand via a SQL interface, visualize custom data segments, and join external data with internal datasets through an API. It provides datasets across finance (crypto, equities, interest rates), location, and healthcare, along with sources such as weather, Wikipedia, and GitHub. The platform serves healthcare, investing, trading, developers, venture capital, real estate and retail, and aims to remove the data engineering burden associated with working with external data.

Stairwell

Seed Round in 2020
Stairwell, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in developing software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions designed to enhance threat detection and response capabilities for organizations. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Stairwell offers an innovative platform that automates threat analysis by treating all files as suspicious and preserving them as evidence. This approach allows security teams to conduct comprehensive compromise assessments rapidly, delivering timely reports on potential threats and their impact on the organization. The company's technology leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide actionable insights, enabling security professionals to effectively track threats and their variants across their environments. Recognized as one of the most innovative companies of 2023 by Fast Company, Stairwell aims to empower security teams with advanced tools that enhance their ability to respond to cybersecurity incidents efficiently.

Mine

Series A in 2020
Mine is a technology company focused on empowering individuals to take control of their personal data online. The platform allows users to quickly identify companies that hold their sensitive information, including personal, financial, and health data. By integrating with users' email, Mine scans interactions to determine potential data holdings and facilitates a simple process for users to request data deletion from those companies. This capability supports users' rights to privacy and helps minimize their online exposure, reducing potential risks associated with data breaches and misuse. Ultimately, Mine promotes the concept of data ownership as a fundamental human right, ensuring that individuals can manage their personal information effectively.

Unit21

Series A in 2020
Unit21 Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018 that develops a no-code platform designed to streamline risk and compliance operations for businesses. The platform features an application programming interface and a dashboard that enable users to detect and manage money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across various industries. In addition to risk detection, Unit21's solutions encompass case management, transaction monitoring, identity verification, operations management, as well as analytics and reporting capabilities. The company emphasizes security, employing best practices to safeguard its systems against potential threats.

Myst AI

Series A in 2020
Myst AI Inc. is a technology company specializing in artificial intelligence solutions for time series forecasting in the electricity sector. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, the company offers a predictive energy usage platform as a forecasting service. Its AI-driven technology enables electricity companies to develop and implement their own forecasting models, enhancing their ability to predict future energy demand and supply. By leveraging automated machine learning techniques, Myst AI's platform allows energy providers to generate accurate forecasts, ultimately aiming to lower costs, reduce risk, and minimize waste in power consumption.

Streamlit

Series A in 2020
Streamlit, Inc. is a company that provides an open-source application framework specifically designed for data scientists and machine learning engineers. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, Streamlit enables users to develop and deploy data science applications quickly and efficiently. Its framework allows for the creation of performant applications in just a few hours, facilitating the development of custom applications that enable interaction with data models. Streamlit's focus is on streamlining the process of building data applications, making it easier for professionals in the field to leverage their data effectively.

Flatfile

Seed Round in 2020
Flatfile is a data onboarding platform that enables developers to validate, map, and import customer data from spreadsheets into software applications. It embeds a JavaScript snippet to add an import button in web apps and provides a secure Concierge workspace for collaboration to manage data ingestion. The platform supports CSV, XLS, and TSV uploads, allows users to configure a target model for data validation, and learns over time to improve accuracy. It is API-first and widely adopted by hundreds of companies, including AstraZeneca, Square, and Sage.

UnitQ

Series A in 2020
UnitQ is a product quality monitoring platform that leverages artificial intelligence to provide real-time insights into user feedback across multiple channels, languages, and regions. Headquartered in the United States, the company offers a software solution that helps organizations identify, quantify, and prioritize product bugs. By utilizing machine learning, UnitQ's platform efficiently processes omnichannel feedback, highlighting critical issues and categorizing them in a customizable dashboard. This enables companies to understand the impact of product launches and ongoing features, allowing them to address quality issues promptly and enhance user retention while reducing support ticket volumes.

BenchSci

Series B in 2020
BenchSci is a developer of a research intelligence platform that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance the efficiency of biomedical research. The company's technology translates both closed and open-access data into actionable recommendations for specific experiments, particularly in antibody extraction. By streamlining the experimental process, BenchSci allows researchers and scientists to conduct successful experiments more quickly and with reduced resource wastage. The platform is utilized by pharmaceutical companies and over 4,300 research centers globally, significantly contributing to the acceleration of drug discovery and biomedical advancements.

Unioncrate

Series A in 2019
Unioncrate, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-driven supply chain management software, aimed at enhancing the operational efficiency of consumer goods companies. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in Barcelona and Buenos Aires, Unioncrate offers various products including Stargate, which manages sales orders, purchase orders, suppliers, inventory, reporting, trade spending, and EDI, and Almanac, a tool for consumption-driven predictions. The company's platform emphasizes demand planning and utilizes AI to identify demand patterns, automate daily tasks, and improve forecast accuracy, thereby addressing core operational challenges within the supply chain. Unioncrate is dedicated to transforming traditional supply chain practices, enabling clients to reclaim valuable resources that are often lost due to outdated systems.

Streamlit

Seed Round in 2019
Streamlit, Inc. is a company that provides an open-source application framework specifically designed for data scientists and machine learning engineers. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, Streamlit enables users to develop and deploy data science applications quickly and efficiently. Its framework allows for the creation of performant applications in just a few hours, facilitating the development of custom applications that enable interaction with data models. Streamlit's focus is on streamlining the process of building data applications, making it easier for professionals in the field to leverage their data effectively.

Flatfile

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Flatfile is a data onboarding platform that enables developers to validate, map, and import customer data from spreadsheets into software applications. It embeds a JavaScript snippet to add an import button in web apps and provides a secure Concierge workspace for collaboration to manage data ingestion. The platform supports CSV, XLS, and TSV uploads, allows users to configure a target model for data validation, and learns over time to improve accuracy. It is API-first and widely adopted by hundreds of companies, including AstraZeneca, Square, and Sage.

BenchSci

Series A in 2019
BenchSci is a developer of a research intelligence platform that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance the efficiency of biomedical research. The company's technology translates both closed and open-access data into actionable recommendations for specific experiments, particularly in antibody extraction. By streamlining the experimental process, BenchSci allows researchers and scientists to conduct successful experiments more quickly and with reduced resource wastage. The platform is utilized by pharmaceutical companies and over 4,300 research centers globally, significantly contributing to the acceleration of drug discovery and biomedical advancements.

Algorithmia

Series B in 2019
Founded in 2013, Algorithmia provides a platform for deploying and managing machine learning models at scale. It enables algorithm developers to explore, create, and share algorithms as Web services, supporting popular frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Scikit-learn. The company automates MLOps, empowering data scientists and developers while powering mission-critical workloads for its enterprise customers.

Unit21

Seed Round in 2018
Unit21 Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018 that develops a no-code platform designed to streamline risk and compliance operations for businesses. The platform features an application programming interface and a dashboard that enable users to detect and manage money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across various industries. In addition to risk detection, Unit21's solutions encompass case management, transaction monitoring, identity verification, operations management, as well as analytics and reporting capabilities. The company emphasizes security, employing best practices to safeguard its systems against potential threats.

BenchSci

Series A in 2018
BenchSci is a developer of a research intelligence platform that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance the efficiency of biomedical research. The company's technology translates both closed and open-access data into actionable recommendations for specific experiments, particularly in antibody extraction. By streamlining the experimental process, BenchSci allows researchers and scientists to conduct successful experiments more quickly and with reduced resource wastage. The platform is utilized by pharmaceutical companies and over 4,300 research centers globally, significantly contributing to the acceleration of drug discovery and biomedical advancements.

Myst AI

Seed Round in 2018
Myst AI Inc. is a technology company specializing in artificial intelligence solutions for time series forecasting in the electricity sector. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, the company offers a predictive energy usage platform as a forecasting service. Its AI-driven technology enables electricity companies to develop and implement their own forecasting models, enhancing their ability to predict future energy demand and supply. By leveraging automated machine learning techniques, Myst AI's platform allows energy providers to generate accurate forecasts, ultimately aiming to lower costs, reduce risk, and minimize waste in power consumption.

Algorithmia

Series A in 2017
Founded in 2013, Algorithmia provides a platform for deploying and managing machine learning models at scale. It enables algorithm developers to explore, create, and share algorithms as Web services, supporting popular frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Scikit-learn. The company automates MLOps, empowering data scientists and developers while powering mission-critical workloads for its enterprise customers.
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