Gradient

🎉 Exciting news! 🎉 I'm SO proud to share that Writer has been named an Emerging Leader in the 2024 Gartner Innovation Guide for Generative AI Technologies! Writer is the only enterprise AI platform placed in the top right quadrant across three market categories: ⭐ Generative AI Model Providers ⭐ Generative AI Engineering ⭐ AI Knowledge Management Apps / General Productivity We believe this recognition is all about the power of full-stack generative AI. Architecture matters, and our architecture is winning. Why does the recognition matter? The market is NOISY and it's about to get a lot more confusing in 2025 with agentic AI. Analyst reports like these are critical for for helping execs and tech leaders evaluate generative AI solutions. We believe that being placed in the top right quadrant in each of these analyses underscores not only our full-stack approach but also our ability to deliver rapid speed-to-value for hundreds of major companies. We just showcased several of these amazing customers — including Accenture, Uber, Lennar, CirrusMD, Salesforce, and Franklin Templeton — at our AI Leaders Forum last week in San Francisco. The results are real and deep. A HUGE THANK YOU to our incredible customers and partners for your continued support and feedback. We set out to build and lead the enterprise AI category and create a better future of work, and together, we’re building the future. 💥 Read about the fantastic Gartner report in our latest blog post: https://lnkd.in/giRV9CpB

Last night we hosted a Gradient<>Lambda<>Weights & Biases AI happy hour at NeurIPS. The event was one of the most fun and insightful ones I've been to - People there have been working on deep AI problems from applied AI in bio and healthcare, such as antibodies and ultrasound, to building new techniques in AI infra for retrieval, long-term memory, and LM compression. Excited for more Gradient AI happy hours and private dinners in the future in SF, NYC, and various conferences!

Congrats, Gigs!

Congrats Gigs on raising $73MM!

Our operating partner, Kyle Duffy, has worked with over 100 portfolio companies on their go-to-market efforts. He noticed a pattern: Many exceptional technical teams spend months building a product before talking to potential customers, which can lead to building something nobody wants. Kyle developed a GTM Sprint framework, a 1-2-week experiment to validate your market assumptions early. Here's why they work - Clear deadlines push you to actually talk to customers - You quickly learn what people care about (and what they don't) - The focused approach beats random outreach - Short timeframes keep you moving forward Kyle breaks down exactly how to run these sprints in his latest blog👇 https://lnkd.in/giqHbRfH

Proud to be early supporters of Cake as Misha Herscu and Skyler Thomas make open-source AI more accessible.

Thrilled to announce R2's $9M equity round and a debt facility of up to $50M to accelerate our growth across Latin America! We’re proud to partner with Hi Ventures and COMETA, alongside the continued support of our incredible existing investors, Gradient and Y Combinator. We also welcome Endeavor Catalyst as a new partner in this journey. This latest debt facility will fuel the expansion of our portfolio in Chile, building on the success of the facility we raised last year with Community Investment Management in Mexico. At R2, we believe that financial services for SMBs should be embedded at the point of need—seamlessly integrated into the platforms they rely on every day. Our mission is to enable millions of businesses to access financial services effortlessly through our infrastructure. This equity and debt raise marks a significant step as we continue building a world-class product and expanding our impact. A heartfelt thank you to our team, customers, partners, and investors for believing in our vision and contributing to our success. Together, we’re reshaping the future of financial access in Latin America.

Congratulations Fahad Hassan, David Cusatis, and the team at Range on raising a $28MM Series B led by Cathay Innovation! Excited to have led the seed here at Gradient and see the growth of this amazing company. cc Expa 8-Bit Capital Red Sea Ventures

Range has been named in the Top Financial Advisory Firms of 2025 👏 We’re on a mission to help households manage their money faster, more accurately, and more affordably than any other resource in the world. If this resonates with you, we’d love to hear from you! https://buff.ly/3UYKh6x

👋 Hello Helsinki! The Writer team represented at Slush 2024 as May chatted onstage with Darian Shirazi of Gradient — one of our earliest investors from 2021! 🤝 We loved the energy at #Slush2024 and always enjoy connecting with the startup community in Europe. Speaking of which, WE'RE HIRING for several roles in our London office! Come join our growing EMEA team to do the best work of your lives, alongside the best humans to share the ride with: https://lnkd.in/eVShNYgx