Gradient Ventures

Founded in 2017, Gradient Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco. It focuses on investing in seed-stage and early-stage companies operating in the information technology, artificial intelligence, and machine learning sectors.

Andrew Brackin

Partner

Zach Bratun-Glennon

General Partner

Zachary Bratun-Glennon JD

Partner

Emerson Kirk

Investor

Wen-Wen Lam

Partner

Past deals in Fraud Detection

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

TypingDNA

Series A in 2020
TypingDNA, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in typing biometrics authentication solutions. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, with additional offices in Oradea and Bucharest, Romania, TypingDNA offers an innovative service that enables organizations to authenticate users based on their unique typing patterns. This technology compares current keystrokes with previously recorded typing behaviors, allowing for secure logins, password resets, and multi-factor authentication. The company's solutions are particularly beneficial for the financial services and education sectors, where they enhance security and combat fraud while maintaining a seamless user experience. By employing artificial intelligence algorithms, TypingDNA provides a more effective alternative to traditional two-factor authentication methods, enabling clients to better protect sensitive information without sacrificing usability.

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.
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