Gradient Ventures

Gradient Ventures, founded in 2017 and based in Mountain View, California, is a venture capital firm that specializes in seed and early-stage investments primarily in the artificial intelligence, information technology, and machine learning sectors. As the venture capital arm of Alphabet, Gradient partners closely with innovative founders to help integrate AI into various business processes. The firm provides essential resources and technical leadership to assist startups in overcoming challenges associated with developing new technology products. By focusing on best practices in areas such as recruiting, marketing, design, and engineering, Gradient aims to support disruptive ideas that have the potential to redefine industries and enhance operational capabilities.

Zachary Bratun-Glennon

Partner

Eylul Kayin

Partner

Emerson Kirk

Investor

Asif Moosani

Investor

Shabih Rizvi

Founding Partner

Vig Sachidananda

Investor

Kahini Shah

Investor

Darian Shirazi

Managing Partner

Denise Teng

Investor

Muzzammil Zaveri

Partner

Victoria Zuo

Investor

Past deals in Open Source

Vocode

Seed Round in 2024
Vocode is a developer of voice AI interfaces that specializes in creating voice-based applications through composability. The company's open-source library facilitates the development of realistic, production-ready conversational voice interfaces by providing essential tools for speech recognition, natural language understanding, and speech synthesis in real time. This platform streamlines common workflows, enabling developers to efficiently build and deploy advanced voice applications tailored to diverse needs. Vocode aims to empower developers in harnessing the potential of voice technology for various applications.

Charm

Seed Round in 2023
Charm develops an open-source coding platform, with tools to improve the visual appearance and store data, to read command markdowns while coding. It currently sells three products, including Glow, an open-source terminal-based markdown reader that allows developers to view documentation such as readme files directly from the command line. It also renders markdown to make the text easier to read and allows users to create a private, encrypted documentation library. Toby Padilla and Christian Rocha founded Charm in 2019.

Infisical

Seed Round in 2023
Infisical is an open-source secret management platform that assists developers in securely managing and synchronizing confidential information across teams, devices, and infrastructures. The platform employs an end-to-end encryption system to prevent the leakage of sensitive data, ensuring that secrets are not exposed through version control systems or insecure communication channels, such as email. By automating the distribution of secrets, Infisical enhances security and efficiency, allowing organizations to maintain the integrity of their confidential information while mitigating the risks associated with secret management.

Dozer

Seed Round in 2023
Building powerful data apps requires time and the integration of multiple tools. Dozer is an open-source platform that gives you a simple platform to transform, cache, and integrate data into your applications. Just connect any data source, combine them in real-time and instantly get low-latency Data APIs. All with just a simple configuration!

Mage

Venture Round in 2023
Mage develops an open-source data pipeline tool for transforming and integrating data. It integrates and synchronizes data from 3rd party sources. It enables users to build real-time and batch pipelines to transform data using Python, SQL, and R. Users can run, monitor, and orchestrate thousands of pipelines without losing sleep.

Astro

Seed Round in 2022
Astro assists web developers in building websites. Astro is an MIT-licensed open source build tool that renders directly to HTML and CSS. Astro also supports different well known frameworks such as react, preact, svelte, solid, vue, and more. Astro was established in 2019 by Fred K. Schott in San Francisco, California.

Mage

Seed Round in 2021
Mage develops an open-source data pipeline tool for transforming and integrating data. It integrates and synchronizes data from 3rd party sources. It enables users to build real-time and batch pipelines to transform data using Python, SQL, and R. Users can run, monitor, and orchestrate thousands of pipelines without losing sleep.

Orchest

Seed Round in 2021
Orchest is an open source, cloud native, development environment built for data science.

Streamlit

Series B in 2021
Streamlit, Inc. is a company that offers an open-source application framework specifically designed for data scientists and machine learning engineers. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Streamlit enables users to develop and deploy data science applications quickly and efficiently. Its framework allows for the creation of custom applications that facilitate interaction with data models, significantly reducing the time required to build performant applications. By providing this resource, Streamlit supports businesses in leveraging their data more effectively through intuitive, user-friendly applications.

Moov

Series A in 2020
Moov is rebuilding banking infrastructure for a cloud-native world without any legacy technology dependencies. Moov’s banking-as-a-service platform takes a developer-first approach of being open-source, portable to cloud providers or on-premises, modular for customization, and decoupled from any single bank program. Their protocols offer the first de facto standard for embedded payment infrastructure offered publicly.

Moov

Seed Round in 2020
Moov is rebuilding banking infrastructure for a cloud-native world without any legacy technology dependencies. Moov’s banking-as-a-service platform takes a developer-first approach of being open-source, portable to cloud providers or on-premises, modular for customization, and decoupled from any single bank program. Their protocols offer the first de facto standard for embedded payment infrastructure offered publicly.

Streamlit

Series A in 2020
Streamlit, Inc. is a company that offers an open-source application framework specifically designed for data scientists and machine learning engineers. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Streamlit enables users to develop and deploy data science applications quickly and efficiently. Its framework allows for the creation of custom applications that facilitate interaction with data models, significantly reducing the time required to build performant applications. By providing this resource, Streamlit supports businesses in leveraging their data more effectively through intuitive, user-friendly applications.

Streamlit

Seed Round in 2019
Streamlit, Inc. is a company that offers an open-source application framework specifically designed for data scientists and machine learning engineers. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Streamlit enables users to develop and deploy data science applications quickly and efficiently. Its framework allows for the creation of custom applications that facilitate interaction with data models, significantly reducing the time required to build performant applications. By providing this resource, Streamlit supports businesses in leveraging their data more effectively through intuitive, user-friendly applications.
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