Andrew Brackin

Partner at Gradient Ventures

San Francisco, California

Overview

Andrew Brackin is a Partner at Gradient Ventures and Co-Founder at Vial, with a background in entrepreneurship, digital marketing, and online advertising. He has successfully co-founded Vial and led growth initiatives at Newfront, showcasing expertise in generative tech/AI sectors and the San Francisco Bay Area startup scene.

Work Experience

Gradient

Partner
2024 - Current
Leading early rounds at Gradient, a seed fund focused on applied AI investments. Lead investments in: Enzo – Leading AI platform for post-acute care Hostie – AI concierge for restaurants Paladin – Autonomous drones for public safety Forge – AI-driven tariffs broker Wayline – 24/7 operator for property managers Vera – Clinical AI for medical providers Support: Heyday Health, Vault, RadAI, Zowie, Tella, and others. Early angel in Campus (FF & GC), Silna (Accel), Brain Co. (Elad Gil), Patlytics (Gradient) and Rivet (XYZ & Susa).

Gradient is a seed fund that invests in founders developing AI technologies.

gradient.com

Vial

Co-Founder & COO
2020 - 2023
Co-founded Vial to run faster clinical trials with technology. Led go-to-market, raised $100M+ in capital from General Catalyst, Buckley Ventures, Byers Capital and Box Group.

Scalable biotech advancing clinical programs with cost-effective trials and computationally designed therapeutics.

Raised $101,000,000.00 from Patrick Hsu, Connor Zwick, Gordon Wintrob, Josh Buckley, Buckley Ventures, General Catalyst, Byers Capital and Spike Lipkin.

vial.com

Newfront

Founding Team, Head of Growth
2018 - 2020
One of the first employees at Newfront (backed by Y Combinator, Founders Fund, and Meritech). A tech-enabled insurance brokerage. Valued at $2.2BN in 2022 merger.

Newfront is an insurance company that provides risk control, risk analytics, and benchmarking claims advocacy.

Raised $310,000,000.00 from Y Combinator, Bloomberg Beta, Altai Ventures, Susa Ventures, B Capital, Vetamer, Founders Fund, Tony Xu, PruVen Capital and Stack Capital.

newfront.com