Gravity AI

Gravity AI operates an artificial intelligence and data science marketplace that distributes containerized machine learning models to enterprises and individual users. Sellers upload models and algorithms to the catalog, where they must pass a vetting and approval process that typically requires code updates and documentation review before listing; buyers browse model descriptions, conduct their own due diligence to confirm a model meets their requirements, and license models that they then run inside their own infrastructure as ready-made, low-code containers.

Alongside the catalog, the platform supports bounty requests for custom solutions when an existing model does not fit a buyer's needs. Company documentation covers purchasing a model, integrating production containers, creating a new project, sharing data among containers, and handling model input and output. aVenture describes the company as a data science marketplace whose software solutions address business operations and management areas including payroll, insurance, tax form processing, supply chain management, and receipt management.

Business model

Gravity AI operates a two-sided marketplace. Sellers, typically data scientists, list models and algorithms in a catalog; buyers browse descriptions and perform their own due diligence before accepting a model. On acceptance, a licensing fee is released to the seller, and Gravity AI retains a percentage of the sale plus a platform access fee. Buyers can also commission custom work by submitting a bounty request. aVenture classifies the company's revenue model as transactional and its model as marketplace/platform.

Transaction-based: a percentage of each model licensing sale plus a platform access fee.

Traction

aVenture reports 13 employees as of February 4, 2024, a most recent funding round of $1.6M in March 2021, and $1.9M raised in total as of March 15, 2021.