AAA Zaveri leaves Gradient for Audacious Ventures

Zaveri leaves Gradient for Audacious Ventures

Muzzammil Zaveri, a partner at Gradient Ventures, the artificial intelligence-focused corporate venturing unit of US-listed conglomerate Alphabet, has joined venture capital firm Audacious Ventures.

As a partner at Gradient for the past three years Zaveri had completed about 16 deals, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Although half were stealth deals, his disclosed deals included:

– Labelbox (seed + series A): platform to create and manage training data for AI applications that raised $25m in its B round.
– Flatfile (pre-seed): intelligent data import solution that just works.
– Unit21 (seed): API for detecting and managing money laundering, fraud, and risk.
– Botkeeper (series A): Automate bookkeeping and pre-accounting tasks.
– Pine Park Health/Togg (seed): brings care into senior living communities.
– RevOps (pre-seed): reinventing CPQ to improve Sales Operations.
– PopSQL (seed): collaborative SQL Editor.
– ’nuffSaid (seed): communication tools for CSM and revenue retention roles.

Zaveri had joined Gradient after three years at VC firm Kleiner Perkins and two years on strategy for Tencent.

Credit: Photo from LinkedIn

By James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.