?? Excited to announce our investment in FirstWork (YC S24)! Frontline workers are the backbone of the global economy, yet the systems to manage them have remained fragmented and outdated. Firstwork's solution integrates full-time and seasonal workers into one cohesive system - streamlining everything from onboarding to compliance to shift scheduling. Looking forward to partnering with this Shubham Choudhary and Vardhan Kapoor on their journey! More on our investment from Eylul Kayin: https://lnkd.in/dgtUM8HP
Gradient
风险投资与私募股权管理人
San Francisco，California 16,431 位关注者
The seed fund designed for founders in AI.
关于我们
The seed fund designed for founders in AI.
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https://www.gradient.com/
Gradient的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 风险投资与私募股权管理人
- 规模
- 11-50 人
- 总部
- San Francisco，California
- 类型
- 合营企业
- 创立
- 2017
- 领域
- Deep Learning、Neural Nets、Machine Learning、Data Science、artificial intelligence和early stage
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US，California，San Francisco，94105
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It’s podcast time! ?? Check out the latest episode of the TechCrunch Equity Podcast where Mary Ann Azevedo sits down with Eylul Kayin, partner at Gradient, to chat about the AI startup landscape. Eylul was recently a judge for the 2024 Startup Battlefield and shares her advice for founders applying, as well as a few fun facts about the history of the program. It was also announced last week that Gradient is leading the $7.2M seed round of our Startup Battlefield Top 20 alumni CTGT (YC F24) ? Tune in next week when I will be on Silicon Valley Impact talking about how founders make decisions. Decisions like- Should I apply for Startup Battlefield? ?? That’s an easy one, yes you should! Applications are open now, head to TechCrunch.com/apply to learn more #StartupBattlefield #Disrupt2025 Brian?? Sparkes Trevor Tuttle Cyril Gorlla AJ Thomas ?? Michelle Florendo
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Today is a big day. Very excited to share our $21.5M Series A and our rebrand to Venn ?? Last year I did 12,260 minutes of customer calls. The year before, about half that. It’s only been 2 years since we launched Venn and (almost) every minute since then has been spent on building the best financial platform for Canadian businesses. We grew revenue >400% last year but that’s only a by-product of this time spent truly understanding our customers and building solutions to their problems. Canadian businesses kept asking us to replace more and more of the archaic systems they were using. They wanted us to deeply embed into how they manage their finances. We started by helping companies save with better accounts and payments but now we’re truly integrated into how they work. Venn came naturally with this change. Despite spending twice as long speaking with customers last year, I kept hearing the same story. Banking was eating the two most precious resources for a business, time and money. Teams were having to go into the branch, not have visibility over payments, and were paying sky-high fees. Since switching to Venn, businesses have those precious resources back to invest in growing the business. In fact, more than 4,000 businesses count on Venn today, from your corner coffee shop to some of Canada’s leading brands. It’s a privilege to earn their trust. I’m incredibly thankful for this and will continue to earn it. It feels like only yesterday Ahmed Shafik and I were sitting in my kitchen designing early mocks and trying to get our first customer. We wouldn’t be here today without our amazing team Yisheng Guo, Yurii Shylov, Tom Keane, Leo Katz, Rushabh Parekh, Denys Boiko, Shani Mithani, Amin Azimi, Alphaeus Tan, Anton Riabov, and former employees! Our day one investor Zachary Bratun-Glennon, thank you for your continued support and early vote of confidence. Christian Ostberg, the fin team, and our amazing angel investors. Welcome and thank you to our new investors joining us in this next chapter of Venn, including Left Lane Capital (Dan Ahrens), XYZ Venture Capital (Ross Fubini), Intact Ventures (Ben Belec, Michaela Hirsh, Justin Smith-Lorenzetti). More on our fundraise and future in our blog below. Now...if you made it this far: 1. We’re hiring for the best sales reps. If you’re ready to beat my 2024 record, reach out to me and let me know why you want to join Venn! 2. If you haven’t tried Venn yet, I’d love to show you what we’re all about. Grab time with me using the link in my profile or DM me.
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Venn (formerly Vault) with a big raise and a new brand but the same focus: build the best business bank in Canada. Thanks for the partnership Saud Aziz and Ahmed Shafik. Lots more to build! Shout out Arpit Mittal for being a big part of the original investment.
Excited to announce our $21.5M Series A and rebrand to Venn ?? We launched Venn 2 years ago Our mission is to build the best financial platform for Canadian businesses to manage their money. For decades, Canadian businesses have struggled with outdated banking systems that are slow, expensive, and rigid. High fees on basic transactions, in-branch visits to send payments, poor FX rates, and a lack of modern financial tools have made managing money a constant headache. Venn changes that by offering a modern, seamless, and cost-effective banking experience—built to save businesses time and money. I’m most excited about the impact we are making on our customers. We’ve built a great product that is serving more than 4,000 businesses — including Sherpa, MedEssist, and Alan. This fundraising round and rebrand mark a pivotal turning point for us at Venn. We are deepening our commitment to empowering Canadian businesses, and providing the specific financial tools needed to grow, thrive, and compete on a global scale. ? A warm welcome our investors joining us in this round: - Dan Ahrens from Left Lane Capital (joining our Board) - Ross Fubini from XYZ Venture Capital? - Ben Belec and Michaela Hirsh from Intact Ventures - Zachary Bratun-Glennon from Gradient who was our earliest supporter and is making his third investment in Venn to date Special shout out Charley Ma and Nik Milanovi? who are always a text or phone call away whenever needed and have backed us when this was just an idea. Learn more about the fundraise and our future (blog post and media linked in comments)
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Great interview with Caitlin Leksana at Fazeshift (YC S24)!
Thanks SiliconANGLE & theCUBE and NYSE for inviting me on to talk with John Furrier about AI Innovation in the office of the CFO. Here are three key insights from our conversation: 1?? If you’re not already adopting AI, you’re behind. It’s no longer a “nice-to-have” – it’s the new competitive advantage. 2?? Roles are shifting from doers to reviewers. How are you preparing your team for this evolution? 3?? Unsure where to begin? Start by asking your teams which tasks they’re doing manually. Those processes are prime candidates for AI-driven automation. Watch the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/gdicxMdX
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“We are building a long-lived, iconic company that is going to be here for the next 100 years.” - hear from Stephen Balaban, CEO and co-founder of Lambda on Bloomberg Technology this morning ?? ?? Watch: https://bit.ly/41cUaA8 ?? Build: lambda.chat
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Congrats Patlytics on raising a $14M Series A led by Next47! We're proud to have been a lead seed investor at Gradient less than a year ago and to support Paul Lee and Arthur Jen as they build the ultimate AI-powered platform for intellectual property.
We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $14M Series A led by Next47 with participation from existing investors that include Google’s AI-focused fund Gradient, Myriad Venture Partners, 8VC, Alumni Ventures, Cherubic Ventures, and Liquid 2 Ventures. This round brings our total funding to $21M raised within a nine-month period. It’s a testament to the market’s demand for Patlytics and AI-driven patent intelligence. Links in comments for the full details and article in TechCrunch! From day one, our vision has been clear: to bring the power of AI to intellectual property. Patlytics unlocks massive productivity gains across the patent lifecycle — from patent prosecution, litigation, and pruning to invention disclosure processes. Patlytics’ advanced large language models (LLMs) and generative AI-powered engine custom-built for IP is transforming the discovery, analytics, and reporting of intellectual property. Our AI-powered platform is trusted by Fortune 500 companies, Am Law 100 firms, and top innovators to streamline patent management. Industry leaders like Quinn Emanuel, Koch Disruptive Technologies, Google, Xerox, Abnormal Security, ROL Group, Young Basile Hanlon & MacFarlane, P.C., and Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP rely on Patlytics to drive efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance strategic decision-making across the patent lifecycle. This funding allows us to scale even faster and continue delivering meaningful outcomes to the global IP community. A huge thank you to our investors, customers, and the incredible team making this vision a reality. We’re just getting started.
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AI you can trust is table stakes in enterprise adoption. CTGT (YC F24) is developing a toolkit for customizing, training, and deploying AI models safely in a cost-effective manner.?We're excited to lead their $7.2M seed round and partner with Cyril G. as they enable enterprises to leverage foundation models responsibly. More on our investment from Vig Sachidananda, PhD https://lnkd.in/gGvDGScb
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Congratulations Lambda on raising $480M from an incredible syndicate! Also congrats to my partner Zachary Bratun-Glennon on leading Lambda's seed round from Gradient Fund 1 back in 2018!
Lambda has raised a $480M Series D to accelerate the expansion of the Lambda Cloud platform, Lambda Model Inference API, and Lambda Chat AI Assistant. This funding round is co-led by Andra Capital and SGW with participation from new investors Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, and NVIDIA, among others, as well as strategic investment from Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron and Wiwynn, as well as many existing investors including 1517, Crescent Cove, and USIT. ?? Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/e5ecNnJp
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Lambda has raised a $480M Series D to accelerate the expansion of the Lambda Cloud platform, Lambda Model Inference API, and Lambda Chat AI Assistant. This funding round is co-led by Andra Capital and SGW with participation from new investors Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, and NVIDIA, among others, as well as strategic investment from Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron and Wiwynn, as well as many existing investors including 1517, Crescent Cove, and USIT. ?? Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/e5ecNnJp
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