Gradient Ventures

Gradient Ventures is a seed-stage venture fund that has invested in artificial intelligence companies since 2017. Its site describes a newly announced fifth fund and says its team is made up of people who founded companies themselves, alongside technical and domain specialists, and that collectively they have worked with a large number of AI founders. Portfolio companies named on the site include a team later acquired by Nvidia to build compilers and software acceleration for AI workloads, the founders of a GPU cloud company, an emergency-response AI company, an AI-powered wealth management platform, and a creative AI company. The firm describes its role as working alongside founders through the stages of building a company, rather than acting purely as a source of capital.