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Gradient Ventures

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Status
ACTIVE
Global HQ
Palo Alto, United States
Countries of investment
  • United States
  • South Africa
Investment stages
  • Pre-Seed
  • Seed
Industries
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Enterprise software
  • Developer tools
  • AI infrastructure
  • Fintech
  • Healthtech
  • Cybersecurity
  • Education
  • Legaltech
  • Gaming
About
Gradient Ventures is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage AI. Their focus spans AI infrastructure, developer tools, enterprise software, fintech and healthtech across the United States and South Africa. The firm supports founders from pre-seed through seed stages.
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$100K
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$10M
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Investment Thesis

Gradient Ventures is a pre-seed and seed stage AI-only fund backing founders building AI-native products across enterprise and consumer markets. The firm differentiates itself as Google's former AI venture arm, spun out independently in 2025, with 500+ investments and nearly $1.2B in AUM.
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Manager's Experience

Founded in 2017 inside Google by Anna Patterson, former VP of Engineering at Google and co-founder of Cuil, with Zach Bratun-Glennon as founding partner. Spun out of Alphabet in October 2025 to operate independently, with Google remaining an LP. Closed a $220M Fund V in March 2026, bringing AUM to nearly $1.2B across five funds and 500+ companies. Portfolio includes Lambda, Writer, Krea and CentML (acquired by NVIDIA).

Gradient Ventures Contacts Information

Primary contact

Team

Anna Patterson - Founder & Managing Partner

Zach Bratun-Glennon - Founder & Partner

Portfolio

Airspace Intelligence

Algorithmia

AllyO

Anchor

Anvil

Arga Labs

Arrows

Arva

Astro

Axle

Back

Backline

BackOps

Benepass

Boxo

Cake

Cambrium

Cascade

CaseMark

CentML

Cerebrium

Charm

Chili Piper

Clarify

Clarity

Collective

Concierge AI

Conduit

Credible

CTGT

Ditto

Elsa

Enzo Health

Fazeshift

Fileread

Firstwork

Flank

Flatfile

Flowdash

FlutterFlow

Flyreel

Forge

Foundational

Fragment

Fylamynt

Gigs

Gynger

Helical

Heru

Hostie

Hugo

Index

Infisical

Iteratively

Jitty

Kerna Labs

Klara

Klime

Krea

Labelbox

Lambda

LangDB

LastMile AI

Linkup

Mage

MainStreet

Malachyte

Mastra

Mentum

Mine

Moov

Mural

Myst AI

Nango

Niva

Numa

OlaClick

OnScale

Openly

Oura

Outgo

Paladin

Patlytics

Payaut

Payload

Penny

Pine Park Health

Plannuh

PopSQL

Prepared

Quilt

R2

Rad AI

Range

Reclaim

Recurate

Rivio

Roe AI

Roi

Rootly

Sapiom

Sapling

Scotty Labs

Secureframe

Send AI

Silverstream

Sona

Spade

Spline

Spotter

Springtail

Stack AI

Stairwell

Streamlit

Syrup

Tamarack

The Coterie

Tildei

Toku

Ubiquity6

Unit21

unitQ

Venn

Venta

Vera Health

Vijil

Vocode

Weflow

Wise Systems

Writer

YearEnd

Young Alfred

Yuma AI

Zowie

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