Zach Bratun-glennon
General Partner at Gradient
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2017 - Current
Investing in disruptive founders, products and technologies. Believing early. Building and supporting throughout. Focusing on Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A investments. Active Investments: - Lambda Labs | https://lambdalabs.com/ - Openly | https://openly.com/ - Moov | https://moov.io/ - Wise | https://www.wisesystems.com/ - Elsa | https://elsaspeak.com/en/ - Syrup | https://syrup.tech/ - Rad AI | https://www.radai.com/ - Onaroll | https://www.onaroll.co/ - Numa | https://www.numa.com/ - Norby | https://www.norby.live/ - Fragment | https://fragment.dev/ - Tandym | https://bytandym.com/ - Outgo | https://www.outgo.co/ - Spade | https://www.spade.dev/ - Vault | https://www.tryvault.com/ - OlaClick | https://www.olaclick.com/ - Heru | https://www.heru.app/ - Snag | https://www.snagsolutions.io/ - Stack AI | https://www.stack-ai.com/ - Fileread | https://www.fileread.com/ - CentML | https://centml.ai/ - Toku | https://trytoku.com/ - Forge | https://www.forgehq.com/ - Roe AI | https://www.getroe.ai/ - [unannounced] AI code advisor - [unannounced] Customer Platform (data + CDP + CRM) - [unannounced] AI communications app - [unannounced] AI user identity and profiling Prior Investments: - Recurate (acq Trove) https://www.recurate.com/ - Myst (acq SNOW) https://www.myst.ai/ - Plannuh (acq Planful) https://www.plannuh.com/ - Flyreel (acq RELX) https://www.flyreel.co/ - OnScale (acq ANSS) https://onscale.com/ - Young Alfred (acq Credible) https://www.youngalfred.com/ - Iteratively (acq AMPL) https://iterative.ly/ - Sapling (acq Kallidus) https://www.saplinghr.com/ - AllyO (acq HireVue) https://www.allyo.com/hello/ - YearEnd (acq Carta) - Boon.ai (shutdown)
Gradient is a seed fund that invests in founders developing AI technologies.
Board Member
2018
Board Member
2022
Predictive software for inventory decision-making in commerce, powered by AI/ML.
Raised $25,100,000.00 from Atacama Ventures, Accel, 1984 Ventures and Gradient.
Board Member
2023
Board Member
2019
Board Member
2022
Onaroll is an employee rewards app that incentivizes productivity and longevity.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Gradient.
Board Member
2022
Board Member
2019
Elsa is an AI-enabled language learning platform that focuses on spolen English communication
Raised $48,250,000.00 from Asia Growth Investment Fund, UOB Venture, Globant Ventures, Monk’s Hill Ventures, Uni-President Enterprises Corporation, Gradient and Vietnam Investments Groups.
Board Member
2018
Wise Systems' autonomous dispatch and routing software uses AI to improve fleet efficiency and customer service for last-mile operations.
Raised $73,050,659.00 from Valo Ventures, Gutbrain Ventures, Gradient, Section 32 and Prologis Ventures.
Corporate Development
2015 - 2017
Deal lead on acquisitions and strategic investments for Cloud, Ads and Commerce (Shopping, Pay, etc.).
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.