Gradient Ventures

Anna Patterson’s Ceramic.ai looks to help enterprises build AI models faster and more efficiently

Anna Patterson has had a storied career in Silicon Valley. She founded three startups, including search engine upstarts Xift and Cuil, as well as recall.archive.org, which became the Internet Archive. She was the vice president of engineering at Google, and later on started Gradient Ventures, an AI-focused seed fund. And she isn’t done building. Patterson […]

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How Gradient Ventures is Shaping the AI Startup Landscape with Eylul Kayin

“AI startups are like rockets — they need to launch fast, but they also need to be built to last,” says Gradient Ventures partner Eylul Kayin, who works on everything from seed-stage investments to helping companies scale. Today on Equity, Mary Ann Azevedo sits down with Eylul to explore the fast-evolving world of AI startups.

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Google’s Gradient backs Cake, a managed open-source AI infrastructure platform

A new company is emerging from stealth today with backing from Google’s AI-focused venture fund to help businesses compile their open-source AI infrastructure and reduce their engineering overheads. Cake integrates and secures more than 100 components for enterprises, including data source adapters (e.g. Apache Hadoop), data ingestion (e.g. Apache Kafka), data labelling (e.g. Label Studio),

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