Gradient Ventures

gradient.com ↗Activity from announced rounds

Activity in this selectionUnited States · Oct 4, 2026 · Jul 7, 2026

An early-stage AI investor, with recorded activity in software, robotics and infrastructure businesses.

Seed capital for AI founders

Gradient describes itself as a seed fund for founders building with AI and says it leads investments at the earliest stages. Its public portfolio includes AI applications, developer infrastructure and products that bring AI into existing business workflows.

Activity recorded in RoundOS

The event list includes pre-seed financings for Zeroset and Feather Robotics, seed financings for Polyphron and Arga Labs, and later rounds involving Fazeshift, BackOps and Sona. This records the firm’s participation in covered events, alongside its published portfolio and investment explanations.

Sources
Rounds participated in
5
Confirmed lead rounds
2
All roles disclosed
New companies
5
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$89.6M
5 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Seed3
Pre-seed1
Series B1

By primary sector

Biotech1
Developer tools1
Ecommerce1
Enterprise software1
Robotics1

By country

United States5

Rounds

5 in this selection
Feather Robotics Inc.

A maker of modular robot hardware with an open software kit for physical AI developers, researchers and industrial integrators.

$7.6MPre-seed
Lead
Polyphron

An AI-guided tissue-engineering platform that grows human micro-tissues and models their responses to support drug research and development.

$20MSeed
Participant
BackOps

BackOps coordinates supply-chain exceptions across enterprise systems, carriers, suppliers and distributors.

$42MSeries B
Participant
Arga Labs

Arga Labs creates sandbox environments with service twins so companies can safely test and train AI agents before deployment.

$10MSeed
Participant
Malachyte

Real-time personalization that adapts product recommendations to shopper behavior, including for visitors who are not logged in.

$10MSeed
Lead