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

Eylul Kayin

Partner

Past deals in PaaS

Patlytics

Series A in 2025
Patlytics develops an artificial intelligence engine that automates various tasks in intellectual property workflows. Its platform streamlines processes such as building claim charts, patent-to-product mappings, asset classification, identifying valuable patents, invention disclosure submissions, and portfolio data comparison.

Gigs

Series B in 2024
Gigs is a telecom-as-a-service platform that enables businesses to offer wireless subscriptions for smartphones and wearables. It provides an API and white-label solutions that allow brands to launch their own mobile plans across multiple networks globally while preserving brand identity and pricing control. The platform supports configuring and monetizing audiences by launching branded mobile services, including wholesale connectivity, checkout, payments, tax and compliance, and customer support tools. By enabling non-telecom brands to become mobile service providers, Gigs helps organizations operate as mobile virtual network operators and integrate carrier-grade connectivity with their existing products and channels. The company serves industries such as telecommunications, technology, and retail, focusing on simplifying service provisioning and carrier access for businesses seeking branded mobile offerings.

R2

Series A in 2024
R2 is a fintech company that provides an embedded lending platform enabling other platforms to offer financing to their small and medium business buyers and sellers, with a focus on Latin America. The platform integrates with a client’s existing system via an API and delivers revenue-based financing services to help increase capital retention and create new revenue streams. By partnering with notable platforms such as Rappi and Clip to power their capital arms, R2 helps merchants grow gross merchandise value and strengthens customer loyalty by serving as a trusted financing supplier. The solution is designed to streamline access to capital for SMBs within existing ecosystems, supporting lenders and platforms to extend credit more efficiently while aiming to reduce credit risk and scale financing across networks.

Patlytics

Seed Round in 2024
Patlytics develops an artificial intelligence engine that automates various tasks in intellectual property workflows. Its platform streamlines processes such as building claim charts, patent-to-product mappings, asset classification, identifying valuable patents, invention disclosure submissions, and portfolio data comparison.

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.

Lambda

Series C in 2024
Lambda specializes in deep-learning infrastructure, offering cloud technology, servers, and workstations pre-configured with common ML frameworks. This enables clients to simplify and accelerate the training and deployment of deep learning models, empowering AI engineers to construct, test, and deploy AI products efficiently and securely.

Flutterflow

Series A in 2024
FlutterFlow, founded in 2020, is an innovative low-code, visual development platform that facilitates the creation of native mobile and web applications. With a user base exceeding 400,000 and thousands of applications successfully deployed to app stores, the platform allows product teams to design appealing user interfaces and produce clean code efficiently. It features a one-click deployment option that significantly reduces launch times while maintaining the ability to incorporate custom code. FlutterFlow's capabilities include seamless integration with Firebase and the ability to download generated Flutter code, enabling developers to build cross-platform applications quickly. This advanced platform streamlines the application development process, allowing businesses to scale rapidly and effectively.

LastMile AI

Seed Round in 2023
LastMile AI offers an AI platform designed to help software developers and product teams efficiently deploy generative AI applications into production environments with confidence.

Lambda

Series B in 2023
Lambda specializes in deep-learning infrastructure, offering cloud technology, servers, and workstations pre-configured with common ML frameworks. This enables clients to simplify and accelerate the training and deployment of deep learning models, empowering AI engineers to construct, test, and deploy AI products efficiently and securely.

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.

Gigs

Series A in 2022
Gigs is a telecom-as-a-service platform that enables businesses to offer wireless subscriptions for smartphones and wearables. It provides an API and white-label solutions that allow brands to launch their own mobile plans across multiple networks globally while preserving brand identity and pricing control. The platform supports configuring and monetizing audiences by launching branded mobile services, including wholesale connectivity, checkout, payments, tax and compliance, and customer support tools. By enabling non-telecom brands to become mobile service providers, Gigs helps organizations operate as mobile virtual network operators and integrate carrier-grade connectivity with their existing products and channels. The company serves industries such as telecommunications, technology, and retail, focusing on simplifying service provisioning and carrier access for businesses seeking branded mobile offerings.

R2

Series A in 2022
R2 is a fintech company that provides an embedded lending platform enabling other platforms to offer financing to their small and medium business buyers and sellers, with a focus on Latin America. The platform integrates with a client’s existing system via an API and delivers revenue-based financing services to help increase capital retention and create new revenue streams. By partnering with notable platforms such as Rappi and Clip to power their capital arms, R2 helps merchants grow gross merchandise value and strengthens customer loyalty by serving as a trusted financing supplier. The solution is designed to streamline access to capital for SMBs within existing ecosystems, supporting lenders and platforms to extend credit more efficiently while aiming to reduce credit risk and scale financing across networks.

Payaut

Seed Round in 2022
Payaut is a financial technology company that specializes in providing automated payment solutions tailored for online marketplaces. Its platform facilitates the payout process by ensuring compliance with PSD2 regulations and automating key functions such as seller onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) verification. By employing a payment service provider (PSP) agnostic approach, Payaut enables marketplaces to seamlessly work with one or multiple PSPs, allowing for flexibility in payment processing. The company's technology also includes features for verifying sellers through an automated application programming interface, facilitating split payments, and ensuring hassle-free payouts based on the specific needs of businesses. This comprehensive approach enhances the security and efficiency of transactions between buyers and sellers in the online marketplace environment.

Boxo

Series A in 2022
Boxo, officially known as Appboxo Pte. Ltd., is a Singapore-based platform founded in 2018 that specializes in super app infrastructure. It provides a suite of developer tools enabling businesses to launch full-screen mini-apps within their existing applications. By utilizing a single SDK, companies can transform their apps into super apps, offering a variety of services quickly and efficiently. This platform also allows service providers to create embeddable mini-apps, facilitating new partnerships and enhancing user engagement through affiliate traffic. Boxo aims to streamline the app integration process while expanding monetization opportunities for both developers and service providers.

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.

Lambda

Venture Round in 2021
Lambda specializes in deep-learning infrastructure, offering cloud technology, servers, and workstations pre-configured with common ML frameworks. This enables clients to simplify and accelerate the training and deployment of deep learning models, empowering AI engineers to construct, test, and deploy AI products efficiently and securely.

Wage

Seed Round in 2021
Wage is building an API infrastructure for instant income and employment verification. It is an infrastructure software solution that allows its users to seamlessly and securely share payroll data. The company was originally founded as Verix in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Flutterflow

Seed Round in 2021
FlutterFlow, founded in 2020, is an innovative low-code, visual development platform that facilitates the creation of native mobile and web applications. With a user base exceeding 400,000 and thousands of applications successfully deployed to app stores, the platform allows product teams to design appealing user interfaces and produce clean code efficiently. It features a one-click deployment option that significantly reduces launch times while maintaining the ability to incorporate custom code. FlutterFlow's capabilities include seamless integration with Firebase and the ability to download generated Flutter code, enabling developers to build cross-platform applications quickly. This advanced platform streamlines the application development process, allowing businesses to scale rapidly and effectively.

Index

Seed Round in 2020
Index Labs Inc is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing a no-code dashboard building solution. Founded in 2018, the company provides users with the ability to create custom dashboards using their existing tools, enabling them to visualize key performance indicators (KPIs) and track organizational performance effectively. Index's platform integrates with various data providers, eliminating the need for manual data entry and facilitating seamless data exploration. Users can filter, highlight results, and create visual representations of their data through charts and graphs. This suite of features empowers businesses of all sizes to collaborate on data-driven projects in real-time, thereby enhancing decision-making processes and progress tracking.

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.

Lambda

Seed Round in 2019
Lambda specializes in deep-learning infrastructure, offering cloud technology, servers, and workstations pre-configured with common ML frameworks. This enables clients to simplify and accelerate the training and deployment of deep learning models, empowering AI engineers to construct, test, and deploy AI products efficiently and securely.

Cape

Venture Round in 2017
Cape Productions, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in aerial video capture using drone and cloud technology. Established in 2014 and headquartered in the United States, the company offers a unique platform called Cape Aerial Telepresence™, which allows users to remotely control drones in real-time from any location. This innovative approach streamlines the operation of commercial drones by eliminating the need for on-site technical expertise, making it easier and more cost-effective for various agencies and businesses to utilize drone technology. By focusing on applications such as skiing and snowboarding, Cape enhances the accessibility and safety of aerial videography, catering to a wide range of users seeking to capture high-quality footage without the traditional complexities of drone operation.

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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