Gradient Ventures — Funding Activity & Portfolio Companies

Activity in this selectionUnited States · Oct 14, 2026 · Jul 17, 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: 6
Confirmed lead rounds: 3
New companies: 6
Funding in participating rounds: $94.8M

By stage

Seed3

Pre-seed2

Series B1

By primary sector

Developer tools2

Biotech1

Ecommerce1

Enterprise software1

Robotics1

By country

United States6

Rounds

6 in this selection

Oct 6

Zeroset

Nebula gives AI agents a changing record of company workflows and decisions, preserving the operational context they need to work across evolving processes.

$5.2MPre-Seed

Lead

Sep 24

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

Sep 17

Polyphron

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

$20MSeed

Participant