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Denise Teng

Investor

Partner at Gradient Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Denise Teng worked as a product manager for six years before joining Gradient. Most recently she was a PM on Meta's AI platform team building infrastructure tools for ML workflows, and prior to that she was a senior PM at Twitter, launching products across ad tech, social commerce, and real-time data analytics. She began her career in Walmart's e-commerce APM program, working on merchant-facing products and the Jet.com integration, and holds an M.S. in software management from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Denise Teng @denise_teng25

@emdashsh 3/ Verification ✅ More code means we need more ways to trust it. Using AI to check AI can carry the same bias, so formal proofs or detecting abnormal agent trajectories could be ways to validate code further. This space is still very early (@HarmonicMath, @theoremlabs, @arettaai

Jul 16, 2026 · ♥ 3

Denise Teng @denise_teng25

@emdashsh 2/ Open stack + dedicated coding inference⚙️ I love pairing an open-source harness with an open-source model that's nearly as good as closed-source at 10x less cost. Serving still has a lot of room to improve though. Definitely looking for inference providers who do prefix

Jul 16, 2026 · ♥ 5

Denise Teng @denise_teng25

1/ Fleet orchestration 🤖 One agent at a time obviously doesn't scale - when a task takes more than 30s, I've already moved on by the time it's done. Fleets fix this: run lots of tasks at once without conflicts, and only spend attention on the best output. (ex: @emdashsh ,

Jul 16, 2026

Invests in

AI & Machine Learning

Experience

  1. Gradient VenturesPartnercurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. MetaSenior Product Manager2022 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
  3. TwitterSenior Product Manager2021 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
  4. TwitterProduct Manager II2020 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
  5. TwitterProduct Manager I2019San Francisco Bay Area
  6. Syndicate InvestmentSyndicate Investment2022
  7. Walmart Global TechAssociate Product Manager2017 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
  8. Carnegie Mellon UniversityResearch Assistant2017San Francisco Bay Area
  9. IDEO CoLabProject Fellow2017San Francisco Bay Area
  10. MuleSoftProduct Manager Intern2016San Francisco Bay Area
  11. YahooProduct Manager Intern2016

Education

  1. Carnegie Mellon UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Software Management
  2. National Chengchi UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science

Skills & more

Product ManagementEnterprise SoftwareFinancial AnalysisiOS developmentWeb DevelopmentWeb ApplicationsUser ExperienceUser Experience DesignSoftware DevelopmentAnalyticsSoftware Project ManagementObjective-C
+10 moreJavaScriptHTMLSQLCSSjQueryCPythonServersRational Functional TesterNode.js

From Denise's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Carnegie Mellon University209

Javier SolteroSenior Venture Partner at Felicis VenturesAvi BharadwajInvestment Director at Intel CapitalTejAdvisor at Clear VenturesOren EtzioniVenture Partner at Madrona Venture GroupDiana HuGeneral Partner at Y CombinatorVlad LoktevInvestor at Index Ventures

+ 203 more

Also attended National Chengchi University16

Wilson LiuFund Operations Manager at Sora VenturesEliza LeeGeneral Counsel at Sora VenturesLouie LuAssociate at WI Harper GroupBas RieterInvestor at DFF VenturesChing TsengPrincipal at AppWorks VenturesAlyssa ChenPrincipal at AppWorks Ventures

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Shared employers

Also worked at Meta123

TinaInvestments & Portfolio Services Team Member at Clear VenturesMike ArpaiaComputer scientist working on machine learning and data infrastructureKevin ColleranManaging Director at Slow VenturesJon ChuInvestor at Khosla VenturesRyan ScottInvestor at Khosla VenturesDavid YangPartner at Lux Capital

+ 117 more

Also worked at Walmart Global Tech4

SomnathTechnology Partner and Chief Data Scientist at Clear VenturesPourya MoradiPrincipal at Think+ Ventures Management, LlcHarshil VejendlaInvestor at Tq Ventures LlcTimothy WeePartner at FirsthandVC

Also worked at Carnegie Mellon University62

Javier SolteroSenior Venture Partner at Felicis VenturesDiana HuGeneral Partner at Y CombinatorCindy PadnosFounder and Managing Partner at Illuminate VenturesMaryanna SaenkoCo-founder at Future VenturesSalvador GalaCo-founder & Managing Partner at Ev3 Ventures LlcAymerik RenardGeneral Partner at HCVC

+ 56 more

Also worked at IDEO CoLab11

Joe GerberGeneral Partner at IDEO CoLab VenturesReuben BramaInvestor at IDEO CoLab VenturesCharlota K. BlunarovaDesign & Brand at IDEO CoLab VenturesPierre La BaumeDesign & Strategy at IDEO CoLab VenturesShuya GongDesign & Futures at IDEO CoLab VenturesTaehong HuhInvestor at GS Futures

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Investments

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