Current Firm
Gradient Ventures
Focus
AI, Enterprise
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.