Elad Gil
InvestorFounderSolo General Partner · Advisor at Electric Capital · Co-founder at Brain Co.
San Francisco, CA
FoundedBrain Co.
About
Elad Gil is the most prominent of venture's solo general partners, raising billion-dollar funds under his Gil Capital and Cosmic-Aleph vehicles to back companies including Stripe, Airbnb, Coinbase, Anduril, and Perplexity. A former Google and Twitter executive, he co-founded Color Health and wrote the High Growth Handbook. He ranked sixth on the 2026 Midas List.
Invests in
AI & Machine LearningBiotechConsumerDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Beyond investing
- Founded
- Founded MixerLabs, which was acquired by Twitter. Founded Color Health. Incubated and helped start Braintrust, an AI eval company. Incubated and helped start Brain Co, which builds an AI platform for large institutions. Gil helped incubate and start Braintrust, an AI enterprise tooling company. Gil helped incubate Brain Co with Jared Kushner.
- Education
- Holds degrees in Math and Biology, including a PhD from MIT. Studied at MIT (Ph.D.) Studied at UCSD (BS, Math)
- Charities
- Funded a clinical trial at Stanford on aging.
- Awards
- Wrote the best-selling High Growth Handbook, offering tactical advice for post-product-market-fit companies.
- Hobbies
- Interested in society-level beauty and inspiration, exploring large-scale monuments and art projects at Monumental.
- More
- Hosts an AI podcast named No Priors. Personally identified a gene involved in lifespan and has published research on life extension in organisms. Interested in human capital movements and encouraging smart people to work in societally important fields. Gil co-hosts the No Priors AI podcast with Sarah Guo. Gil is building monuments with a project called Monumental. Gil is creating a chain of new K-12 schools inspired by ancient Greece.
From Elad's own website — common ground for a warm intro.
Co-founder at Brain Co.
Intro paths
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Brain Co.'s investors · 3
Co-founders at Brain Co.
Experience
- Gil Capital / Gil & CoStartup Helpercurrent2008 — present
- ColorCo-foundercurrent2013 — present
- TwitterVice President2009 — 2012
- Mixer LabsCEO and Co-Founder2007 — 2009
- GoogleProduct Management2004 — 2007
- McKinsey & CompanyConsultant2003 — 2004
Skills & more
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AnalyticsScalabilityBusiness DevelopmentE-commerceDistributed SystemsAngel InvestingProduct DevelopmentIntegrationCross-functional Team LeadershipSoftware as a Service (SaaS)StrategyWeb AnalyticsFrom Elad's professional profile.
Investments
Led
AndurilBraintrust
Investor
AbridgeAirbnbAirtableAnchorageAndurilAnthropicApplied IntuitionBase PowerBioAgeBitwiseBrain CoBrexCerebrasCharacterCheckrCognitionCoinbasedbt LabsDecagonDeeldYdXFigmaFilecoinFlexportGitLabGustoHarveyInstacartInstcartIronFishLong LakeMistralNavanNewLimitNotionOpenAIOpendoorOpenseaPagerDutyPerplexityPikaPinterestRetoolRipplingSamsaraSaronicScale.AISpaceXSquareStripeWaymo
Sources: curated public sources · the investor's own website.
Books by Elad Gil
Podcasts & interviews
featuring Elad GilHow Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil Interview
My First Million
No Priors Ep. 138 | The Best of 2025 (So Far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups
Elad Gil of Gil Capital, Gil & Co. & Enigma Global
Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
How To Navigate Your Career | Elad Gil | Ep. 6
Uncapped with Jack Altman
No Priors Ep. 86 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups
No Priors Ep. 72 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups
2 more appearances
Writing
All posts ↗Elad Gil has recently been writing about the AI market, including speculative thoughts on AI's growing share of US GDP, compute constraints and researcher compensation, data showing the SF Bay Area's dominance of generative AI unicorn market cap, and how foundation model and code markets have consolidated around clear leaders.
A collection of speculative observations on AI's share of GDP, researcher wealth from talent bidding wars, compute constraints reinforcing an oligopoly, tokens as economic currency, and AI-attributed layoffs.
Data analysis showing the SF Bay Area holds 91% of global generative AI unicorn market cap and 39% of all unicorn market cap, with growth increasingly concentrated in the US and driven by gen AI.
Argues certain AI markets like foundation models/LLMs and code have crystallized around clear likely winners, while other segments remain uncertain.»
Network25
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Elad Gil?
- Elad Gil is the most prominent of venture's solo general partners, raising billion-dollar funds under his Gil Capital and Cosmic-Aleph vehicles to back companies including Stripe, Airbnb, Coinbase, Anduril, and Perplexity. A former Google and Twitter executive, he co-founded Color Health and wrote the High Growth Handbook. He ranked sixth on the 2026 Midas List.
- Where does Elad Gil work?
- Elad Gil is Co-founder of Brain Co. and Solo General Partner at Elad Gil.
- What does Elad Gil invest in?
- Elad Gil invests in AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Consumer, Defense Tech, Enterprise Software, Fintech, SaaS.
- What companies did Elad Gil found?
- Elad Gil founded Brain Co..
- What companies has Elad Gil invested in?
- Investments tracked here include Anduril, Braintrust, Abridge, Airbnb, Airtable, Anchorage, Anduril, Anthropic, Applied Intuition, Base Power, BioAge, Bitwise, and 41 more.
- Where did Elad Gil go to school?
- Elad Gil studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD); UC San Diego (BA, BS).
- What awards has Elad Gil received?
- Wrote the best-selling High Growth Handbook, offering tactical advice for post-product-market-fit companies.
- What has Elad Gil written?
- Elad Gil has 3 tracked posts on blog.eladgil.com, including "Random thoughts while gazing at the misty AI Frontier", "Unicorn Market Cap 2026: SF is the GenAI Super Cluster", "AI Market Clarity".
- What podcasts and interviews feature Elad Gil?
- Tracked appearances include "How Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil Interview", "No Priors Ep. 138 | The Best of 2025 (So Far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil", "Elad Gil of Gil Capital, Gil & Co. & Enigma Global", and 5 more.
- Does Elad Gil lead rounds?
- Yes — Elad Gil has led 2 tracked investments.
Paths to reach Elad
People who overlapped with Elad at the same organization — a shared school or employer with one of them is a warm way in.
Together at McKinsey & CompanyElad: Consultant
Together at TwitterElad: Vice President
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology mafia546
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McKinsey & Company mafia337
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UC San Diego mafia113
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Also worked at Color11
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