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Anna Patterson

Founder and Managing Partner, Gradient Ventures

About

Anna Patterson brings unusually deep technical credibility to venture capital as Google's former VP of Engineering in AI who architected major parts of the company's search serving systems and co-founded multiple search companies including Cuil before becoming an investor. She focuses on AI infrastructure and tooling rather than applications, backing technical founding teams building foundational technologies with a long-term platform mindset shaped by her hands-on experience scaling complex AI systems. Anna Patterson brings unusually deep technical credibility to venture capital as Google's former VP of Engineering in AI who architected major parts of the company's search serving systems and co-founded multiple search companies including Cuil before becoming an investor. She focuses on AI infrastructure and tooling rather than applications, backing technical founding teams building foundational technologies with a long-term platform mindset shaped by her hands-on experience scaling complex AI systems.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Sectors
AI
SaaS
FinTech
Devtools
Data

Investment details

Avg check size$100K - $10M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
USA