Gradient Ventures — 2021 Investments

Fondeadora is a financial platform in Mexico offering banking accounts and services for individuals, freelancers, and small businesses.

FintechMexico City, MX

NMNorman Müller(Founder)inRSRene Serrano(Founder)inNorman Muller Vergara(Executive Officer, Director)Rene Omar Serrano Ocampo(Executive Officer, Director)

Board seatDSDarian Shirazi· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsFOFoundation CapitalHIHi VenturesIGIGNIAPOPortage VenturesVEVentureSouqY Y Combinator+8 more

Boston, US

Peter Mahoney(Executive Officer, Director)Dan Faulkner(Director)

BoardZBZach Bratun-Glennon(Director)inRSRudina Seseri(Director)in

Board seatZBZachary Bratun-Glennon· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsBABantam GroupGLGlasswing VenturesRIRipple Ventures

Wise Systems provides an AI-driven routing optimization platform for delivery and fleet operations.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & TransportationSaaSCambridge, US

Charles Sims II(Executive Officer, Director)AKAli Kamil(Founder)inLSLayla Shaikley(Founder)inJemel Derbali(Founder)inCSChazz Sims(Founder)in

BoardDr. Sandy Pentland

Board seatZBZachary Bratun-Glennon· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsBABantam GroupFOFontinalis PartnersGUGutbrain VenturesTETechstarsTHThe E14 FundTRTrucks VC+6 more

Arrows provides digital sales rooms — a shared page per deal containing milestones, resources, and next steps — that are created from a CRM deal and kept current by AI agents that read call and email context.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales TechLos Angeles, US

BENEDICT FRITZ(Executive Officer, Director)inDZDaniel Zarick(Founder)inBenedict Fritz(Founder)

Co-investorsALAlumni VenturesHUHubSpot VenturesGTGTMfundHUHustle FundJOJohn CurtiusLOLongJump Ventures

Caffeinated Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 that invests in startups from seed to IPO, originally pioneering a single-partner fund model and now operating as a multi-partner platform.

Sector AgnosticSan Francisco, US

RTRaymond Tonsing(Partner (Founder))in

Co-investorsDADarco CapitalCOCoatue ManagementGEGeneral CatalystINIn-Q-Tel

Chili Piper provides a routing and scheduling platform that qualifies inbound leads from web forms and chat in real time, enriches them, and routes them to the right sales rep to book meetings automatically.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales TechBrooklyn, US

NVNicolas Vandenberghe(Founder)inAVAlina Vandenberghe(Founder)inIvan Dyachenko(Founder)

BoardTNTJ Nahigian(Director)inNicolas Moreau(Director)Mihaly Szalontay(Director)

Co-investorsFLFlashpoint Venture CapitalG G SquaredBABase10 PartnersTITiger Global Management

Amplitude provides a customer data platform that unifies customer information across touchpoints and enables teams to segment audiences, activate personalized experiences, and monitor data quality for product and marketing teams.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaS

Co-investorsASAscend Venture CapitalFIFikaPIPioneer Square LabsFIFika VenturesPSPSL Ventures

JustiFi provides embedded fintech infrastructure—payments, lending, BNPL, and insurance—for vertical SaaS platforms and franchise networks.

AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSMinneapolis, US

CKCasey Kipfer(Founder)inJKJoe Keeley(Founder)Joseph Floyd(Director)Peter Zugschwert(Executive Officer)

BoardCBCharles Beeler(Director)JKJustin Kaufenberg(Executive Officer, Director)in

Co-investorsCRCrosslink CapitalEMEmergence Capital PartnersRARally Ventures Management, LlcBLBlumberg Capital

Koxa provides integration software that enables corporate treasury teams to initiate payments and access reconciliation data from their banks directly within their accounting software, eliminating manual data entry and switching between systems.

Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSNew York, US

CMConner Mulvee(Co-Founder | CEO | Board Member)inCGCamellia George(Co-Founder | CTO | Board Member)inDelano McFarlane(Director)in

BoardDSDavid Silverman(Director)in

Co-investorsALAlumni VenturesCLClocktower VenturesCRCrosslink CapitalFIFin CapitalBLBlumberg Capital

A marketplace for buying and selling collectible cards that uses real-time bidding and asking to match buyers and sellers, with in-house experts verifying authenticity before shipment.

ConsumerMarketplacesTravel & HospitalityKiel, DE

PRPeer Richelsen(Founder)inMDMalte Delfs(Founder)inTommy Dang(Founder)Xiaoyou Wang(Founder)

Co-investorsSISINEWAVE VENTURESY Y CombinatorDEDesigner FundGFGFR FundJAJames Beshara FundMAMana Ventures+3 more

Mage is an AI-native platform for building, running, and repairing data and AI workflows, where users describe a workflow in natural language and the platform generates the sources, code, dependencies, checks, and schedules.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSanta Clara, US

Georges Mangin(Founder)inTDTommy Dang(Founder)inXiaoyou Wang(Founder)in

Co-investors1F1Flourish CapitalALAlumni VenturesDEDesigner FundGAGaingelsLILigature VCMAMana Ventures+4 more

Mage is a web platform for generating and editing images and videos with AI, offering access to many base models (such as Stable Diffusion, Flux, and Veo) plus tools like inpainting, upscaling, face swap, and text-to-video.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerCreator EconomyMedia & Entertainment

Roi Lee(Founder)in

Co-investorsFEFermionGFGFR FundPRProgressionUNUntapped Capital

PopSQL is a SQL editor and data collaboration platform that enables teams to write, visualize, and share SQL queries and data results.

Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

RSRahil Sondhi(CEO)inBill Babeaux(Builder)Jake Peterson(Head of Customer Success)Victor Fernandez(Designer)Travis Cooper(Head of Engineering)Justin Murray(Software Engineer)

Co-investorsFUFundersClubSOSoma CapitalY Y CombinatorBABACKGROUND CAPITALFCFCVCRARavikant Capital+2 more

Quilt makes a ductless heat pump system for residential heating and cooling, including indoor and outdoor units, a control dial, and an app with room-by-room temperature control and occupancy sensing.

CleantechClimate TechEnergyHardwareNew York, US

PLPaul Lambert(Founder)inMKMatthew Knoll(Founder)inBKBill Kee(Founder)inAndrew Stern(Executive Officer)John Marquis(Executive Officer, Director)Jeremy Sokolic(Executive Officer)

Co-investorsALAlumni VenturesENEnergy Impact PartnersGAGarage CapitalLOLowercarbon CapitalSPSpacecadet VenturesW W ventures+3 more

unitQ provides a platform that aggregates customer feedback from support, reviews, and social channels and uses AI to categorize signals into a single real-time source of truth for product quality.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBurlingame, US

CWChristian Wiklund(Founder)inDavid Eklov(Founder)Niklas Lindstrom(Founder)

BoardAPAnna Patterson(Director)inSWScott Weiss(Director)

Co-investorsACAccelBRBragiel BrothersLELeadout CapitalTITime Zero CapitalBOBootstrapLabsCRCreandum

Vault provides a platform that activates employees, customers, shareholders, and suppliers to uncover, resolve, and prevent workplace misconduct.

Enterprise SoftwareGovTechImpact & Social GoodLegalTechSaaSLondon, GB

Co-investorsANAngular VenturesKIKindred CapitalILIlluminate Financial

Writer offers an enterprise AI platform where companies build and delegate work to AI agents that carry out tasks end-to-end using a company's own context, standards, and brand guidelines.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSan Francisco, US

MHMay Habib(Founder)inWAWaseem AlShikh(Founder)in

BoardWhitney Bouck(Director)Sandesh Patnam(Director)Robert Toews(Director)J Zachary Stein(Director)

Co-investorsACAcrew CapitalALAltra VentureANAngel Collective Opportunity FundB B Capital GroupB4B4 CapitalBABalderton Capital+28 more