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Gradient
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
Gradient is a seed-stage venture fund that invests in artificial intelligence companies. It describes itself as founder-centric, working alongside founders as investors, mentors and builders.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningFintech
In its own wordsartificial intelligenceseed stagefounder-centriccreative aigpu cloudwealth management
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Or find every investor that fitsGradient lists 43 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 48 funding rounds, 11 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 54% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (32%), Fintech (18%) and Enterprise Software (11%). 88% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz and SV Angel.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Gradient, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 5% |
| Seed | 54% |
| Series A | 26% |
| Series B | 12% |
| Growth | 5% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 1 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 1 | 0 |
| '23 | 2 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 12 | 3 |
| '26 | 32 | 8 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 79th | 43 companies |
| Recent activity | 99th | 35 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 74th | 58% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 58th | 32% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 32% | 18% |
| Fintech | 18% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 11% | 8% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 11% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 8% | 4% |
| Legal & Compliance | 4% | 2% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 3% | 7% |
| Education | 3% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 13 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 4 |
| SV Angel | 4 |
| Soma Capital | 4 |
| Alumni Ventures | 3 |
| Ritual Capital | 3 |
| Scribble Ventures | 3 |
| 1984 Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers4093%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company37%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Gradient head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Gradient| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Nov 2026 | Series A | |
| 29 Oct 2026 | Series B Led | |
| 28 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 28 Oct 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 27 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 27 Oct 2026 | Series B | |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed Led |
Round details for Gradient
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Gradient's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
43 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides health checkup services and develops medical intelligence using AI | Healthcare & Biotech | Aug 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Anaplan provides decision infrastructure and planning solutions for businesses | FintechEnterprise Software | Dec 2023Series A | Funding round | |
| Anchor provides a secure infrastructure for computer use agents, including cloud browsers and authentication solutions | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Oct 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Arga Labs provides real-world sandboxes for testing and training AI agents. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Aug 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Axle automates insurance workflows using AI agents to verify insurance policies and extract data from insurance documents | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| BackOps improves and executes internal processes across systems, teams, and external partners, helping companies add capacity, improve margins, and deliver more reliable service. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2025Seed · 3 rounds | Funding round | |
| Cerebrium provides serverless GPU infrastructure for real-time AI workloads | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Jul 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Collective provides financial solutions and resources for self-employed businesses | FintechEnterprise Software | Oct 2026Series B | Funding round | |
| Credible Data provides an AI analytics engine that helps turn data into trustworthy answers, apps, and agents. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Jul 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Nov 2025Series B | Funding round | |||
| Ditto arranges dates for college students based on their preferences and values. | EducationEnterprise Software | Feb 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Enzo Health provides a home health electronic health record (EHR) system that automates tasks and streamlines patient care | Healthcare & Biotech | May 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Fazeshift develops AI agents for automating accounts receivable processes. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | May 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| The company builds and sells a robotic hardware platform for various applications, including manufacturing and research. | Robotics & Hardware | Sept 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| Firstwork provides AI agents for frontline workforces to automate workforce operations inside existing systems. | AI & Machine LearningHuman Resources | Oct 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Flank develops and implements AI agents for enterprise legal teams to automate contracting workflows | Legal & ComplianceAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Dovetail provides regulatory compliance services for medical device companies | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides a platform to run GTM workflows from a terminal | Space & DefenseGaming | Sept 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Finto's AI agents handle invoice processing automatically | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Jul 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides a virtual AI lab for drug discovery, allowing users to adapt biological foundation models to their proprietary data and turn their scientific expertise into evaluations that measure success. | Healthcare & Biotech | Apr 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- gradient.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 4 Dec 2020
- Companies checked
- 43
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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