Where does Elad Gil work?

Elad Gil is Co-founder of Brain Co. and Solo General Partner at Elad Gil and Co-founder at Color Genomics.

What companies did Elad Gil found?

Elad Gil founded Brain Co., Color Genomics.

Where did Elad Gil go to school?

Elad Gil studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD); UC San Diego (BA, BS, Mathematics, Molecular Biology).

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.

Elad Gil

InvestorFounder

Solo General Partner · Advisor at Electric Capital · Founder at Color Genomics · Co-founder at Brain Co.

San Francisco, CA

FoundedBrain Co.Color Genomics

Midas 2025 · #87 Midas 2026 · #6

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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.

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Founder at Color Genomics

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Color Genomics's investors · 3

General CatalystSan Francisco · $30M checks · since 2016 Khosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checks Venture Capital Investment ManagementSan Francisco

Co-founders at Color Genomics

Othman LarakiExecutive Officer, Director

Co-founder at Brain Co.

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Brain Co.'s investors · 3

Elad GilSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checks · since 2025 HomebrewBurlingame · $100K – $500K checks Scribble VenturesPortola Valley · $750K – $1.5M checks

Co-founders at Brain Co.

Mircea PașoiCo-founder

Revant KapoorCo-founder

Dan AshtonCo-founder

Jared KushnerCo-founder

Eric WuCo-founder

Luis VidegarayCo-founder

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

Product ManagementMobile Devices63Due Diligence6Start-upsEntrepreneurship68Monetization9User Experience20SaaS2Mobile Applications6Venture Capital11Strategic Partnerships17Big Data2

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AnalyticsScalabilityBusiness DevelopmentE-commerceDistributed SystemsAngel InvestingProduct DevelopmentIntegration

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Investments

Led

AndurilBraintrust

Investor

Abacus.AIAbridge AgentsyncAIMAirbnbAirtableAkido LabsAnchorageAnchorage DigitalAndurilAnduril IndustriesAnrokAnthropicAny.doApplied Compute Applied IntuitionArcadeAshbyAthelasAtoBBase Power BenchlingBioAgeBioAge Labs BitwiseBluenote HealthBrain CoBraintrustBrexBRINC DronesBuildForever CaptivateIQ Carbon HealthCardiogramCeloCerebrasCharacterCharacter.AI Charm Industrial Charthop CheckrClubhouseCognitionCoinbaseCommsorContextLogicContextual AI Contribution LabsCopy.aiCordCoveCrosbyDatologyAIdbt LabsDecagon Deel DeepnoteDeformDiffbot DigitsDIRT ProtocolDistru dYdX Entrepreneurs FirstEnvoyEonEssential AIFarcasterFigmaFilecoinFilloutFlexportFrame SecurityFrontFruitfulGitLab GOAT GroupGoldskyGusto Harvey Helsing HeyGen HiveWatchHoumInfisical InstacartInstcartIntegral TreasuryIronFishKindredLatticeLeena AILinesLiveKitLlamaLong LakeMagicMaterial SecurityMedallionMercuryMetronomeMistralMoabModal LabsMysten Labs NavanNavigateAINeonNeticNeuroxNewLimitNileNirvana InsuranceNotiono1LabsOdysseyOn DeckOneSchemaOpenAIOpenBBOpendoorOpendoor TechnologiesOpenseaOptimizelyOrchidOsaroPacific FusionPagerDutyParabola Periodic Labs Perplexity PetualPikaPinterestPlaybookPolyworkPulleyQuantaRecraftRecurrencyReduct Relativity SpaceRenderResend Retool RipplingRiversideRossum RunSybilRunway FinancialSamsaraSaronicSaturn TechnologiesScaleScale.AIScreenheroSeashellSimpoSocketSoraSoverenSpaceXSpoolSprigSquareStreamlitStripeStytch SuccinctTacticTagomiThe Bot CompanyThe OrgTiltTransformTriplebyteTwiceUnbabel Uniform UnsupervisedVentrilo.aiVerge LabsVeriffWarpWatershedWaymoWithinWorkOS WorkRampYO ProtocolZenefits Zeplin

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Books by Elad Gil

High Growth Handbook

Stripe Press, 2018

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Podcasts & interviews

featuring Elad Gil

How 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

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Writing

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Elad Gil has recently been writing about the state of AI markets, including AI's rapidly growing share of US GDP, compute constraints, and researcher compensation shifts, plus data showing the SF Bay Area's dominance of unicorn and generative AI market cap, and which foundation model and code companies are emerging as winners.

Random thoughts while gazing at the misty AI Frontier2026-04-20

A collection of informal observations on AI's share of US GDP, researcher compensation shifts, compute constraints reinforcing an oligopoly, tokens as economic currency, and AI-attributed layoffs.

Unicorn Market Cap 2026: SF is the GenAI Super Cluster2026-04-16

Analysis of unicorn market cap data showing the SF Bay Area holds 39% of global unicorn value and 91% of generative AI unicorn market cap, with US concentration rising.

AI Market Clarity2025-07-22

An overview of how AI markets have solidified, identifying likely winners in foundation models/LLMs and code generation while noting other markets remain uncertain.ustom.name.dummy.remove.this.text.for.error.demo.only.here.ends.now.so.thirty.words.max.applies.very.strict.always.follow.the.rule.factual.tone.neutral.no.marketing.language.at.all.times.done.here.finally.over.now.ok.summary.ends.here.f

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Brad GerstnerScout

Founder & CEO of Altimeter Capital

Evan WilliamsScout

Co-founder of Twitter, Blogger and Medium

Ben SilbermannScout

Co-founder of Pinterest

Guillermo RauchScout

Founder & CEO of Vercel

Adena HefetsScout

Senior Associate at Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)

Alex MooreScout

Investment Team at 8VC

Andrej KiskaScout

Board Partner at Credo Ventures

Andy ChenScout

Managing Partner at Outcast Ventures

Avichal GargScout

General Partner at Electric Capital

Brad StephensScout

Founder and Managing Partner at Blockchain Capital

Brandon ReevesScout

Partner at Lux Capital

Brett CalhounScout

General Partner at Redbud VC

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Casey Aylward · scout Charles Goldman · scout Clint Smith · scout Dennis Steele · scout Eric Rea · scout Eric Tarczynski · scout Erica Van · scout Ethan Daly · scout Florian Huber · scout Gary Beasley · scout Kyle Vogt · scout Byron Deeter Aaref Hilaly Janelle Teng Shishir Mehrotra

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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 and Co-founder at Color Genomics.
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., Color Genomics.
What companies has Elad Gil invested in?: Investments tracked here include Anduril, Braintrust, Abacus.AI, Abridge, Agentsync, AIM, Airbnb, Airtable, Akido Labs, Anchorage, Anchorage Digital, Anduril, and 182 more.
Where did Elad Gil go to school?: Elad Gil studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD); UC San Diego (BA, BS, Mathematics, Molecular Biology).
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.