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 Sales Automation

Weflow

Seed Round in 2023
Weflow is a developer of a workflow management platform aimed at enhancing the efficiency of revenue teams. The platform provides tools for updating Salesforce, conducting sales meetings, taking notes, managing pipelines, and obtaining actionable feedback from customer interactions. By streamlining these processes, Weflow helps account executives minimize administrative tasks and improve overall productivity. The focus on pipeline visibility, forecast accuracy, and data hygiene ensures that teams can operate more effectively and make informed decisions.

Arrows

Venture Round in 2023
Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more. One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughout the onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together. Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.

RevOps

Seed Round in 2021
RevOps is a business that focuses on streamlining and optimizing the sales process through a comprehensive automation platform. This platform integrates with various billing systems and supports the entire sales cycle, from identifying opportunities and creating proposals to managing approval workflows, negotiations, deal closures, and renewals. By implementing templated quotes and pricing guardrails, RevOps helps organizations eliminate chaotic closing processes and manual procedures, allowing sales teams to operate more efficiently. The emphasis on thoughtful customer engagement further enhances the effectiveness of sales efforts, ultimately driving better outcomes for businesses.

Arrows

Seed Round in 2021
Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more. One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughout the onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together. Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.

Chili Piper

Series B in 2021
Chili Piper is a company that specializes in automated scheduling tools designed for sales teams to enhance their engagement with leads and customers. Founded in 2016 and based in Brooklyn, New York, Chili Piper offers an intelligent concierge product that allows prospects to easily book meetings or initiate phone calls immediately after submitting a form on a website. The software employs smart rules to qualify and route leads to the appropriate representatives in real-time, streamlining the lead handoff process from Sales Development Representatives to Account Executives. Additionally, it facilitates meeting bookings stemming from marketing campaigns and live events, ultimately helping organizations improve productivity and satisfaction within their revenue teams by automating essential pre-meeting, during-meeting, and post-meeting processes.

Infinitus Systems

Series A in 2021
Infinitus Systems is an AI healthcare company focused on automating phone-based processes to enhance efficiency within the healthcare ecosystem. By streamlining tedious and time-consuming communication tasks, Infinitus aims to improve access to therapy, adherence, and affordability for patients. The company's innovative tool allows users to submit call requests easily, track updates, and receive notifications upon task completion. Infinitus Systems has raised $51.4 million in funding from prominent investors, including Kleiner Perkins, Coatue, and Google Ventures. Through its automation solutions, the company seeks to reduce the complexity and costs associated with back-office administration in the healthcare sector.

Chili Piper

Series A in 2020
Chili Piper is a company that specializes in automated scheduling tools designed for sales teams to enhance their engagement with leads and customers. Founded in 2016 and based in Brooklyn, New York, Chili Piper offers an intelligent concierge product that allows prospects to easily book meetings or initiate phone calls immediately after submitting a form on a website. The software employs smart rules to qualify and route leads to the appropriate representatives in real-time, streamlining the lead handoff process from Sales Development Representatives to Account Executives. Additionally, it facilitates meeting bookings stemming from marketing campaigns and live events, ultimately helping organizations improve productivity and satisfaction within their revenue teams by automating essential pre-meeting, during-meeting, and post-meeting processes.

'nuffsaid

Seed Round in 2020
Nuffsaid helps people focus on the work that matters. Our product centralizes your work apps—email, chat, Salesforce, Jira, and more—and uses AI to prioritize the work that will move the needle in your role. We offer a Personal package and Teams upgrade.

RevOps

Seed Round in 2020
RevOps is a business that focuses on streamlining and optimizing the sales process through a comprehensive automation platform. This platform integrates with various billing systems and supports the entire sales cycle, from identifying opportunities and creating proposals to managing approval workflows, negotiations, deal closures, and renewals. By implementing templated quotes and pricing guardrails, RevOps helps organizations eliminate chaotic closing processes and manual procedures, allowing sales teams to operate more efficiently. The emphasis on thoughtful customer engagement further enhances the effectiveness of sales efforts, ultimately driving better outcomes for businesses.

Numa

Series A in 2019
Numa is an AI-powered communication platform for automotive dealerships that turns missed calls into ROs and helps your team delight customers with fast responses, resulting in higher CSI and more dollars per RO. The company's platform helps turn missed calls into revenue opportunities (ROs), ensuring that dealerships never miss a potential customer interaction.
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