Elad Gil

Angel

Prolific angel investor and author of 'The High Growth Handbook'. Former VP at Twitter and co-founder of Color Genomics.

Profile

Headquarters
San Francisco, US
Investments
37
Companies
17

Capital

Total Deployed
$8.2B
Lead Rounds
8

Portfolio

17 companies
Scale AI $15.9B
Private San Francisco, US

AI data infrastructure company that provides data labeling, model evaluation, and software to accelerate the development of AI applications for enterprises, government agencies, and AI labs.

Anduril Industries $6.3B
Private Costa Mesa, United States

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company building autonomous systems, AI software, and sensor hardware for military and national security applications. Founded by Oculus VR creator Palmer Luckey and former Palantir employees, the company builds products including autonomous drones, surveillance towers, underwater vehicles, and the Lattice AI platform that integrates sensors and effectors into a unified command-and-control system.

Rippling $1.8B
Private San Francisco, US

Workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, and finance into a single system built on a unified employee graph.

Navan $1.3B
Public Palo Alto, California, United States

All-in-one corporate travel, payments, and expense management platform (formerly TripActions). Combines travel booking, corporate-issued payment cards, expense reporting, and analytics for businesses. Serves over 10,000 customers globally and went public on the Nasdaq (NAVN) in October 2025.

Base Power Company $1.3B
Private Austin, Texas, United States

Austin-based energy technology startup that manufactures, installs, owns, and operates residential battery storage systems to provide homes with affordable, reliable backup power. The company operates as both a licensed electricity provider and a virtual power plant, pooling thousands of home batteries into a distributed energy network that strengthens the grid.

Applied Intuition $1.2B
Private Mountain View, United States

Applied Intuition is a vehicle software supplier that builds simulation, validation, and development tools for autonomous driving and ADAS. The company serves 18 of the top 20 global automakers and has expanded from pure simulation into a full autonomy stack, incorporating generative AI capabilities for automotive, trucking, mining, agriculture, and defense industries.

Harvey $1.0B
Private San Francisco, United States

Harvey builds domain-specific AI for legal and professional services. The platform streamlines workflows in contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation, serving over 1,000 customers in 60+ countries including global law firms and Fortune 500 enterprises.

Deel $979M
Private San Francisco, US

Global HR and payroll platform that enables companies to hire, pay, and manage workers and contractors in over 150 countries, handling compliance, taxes, and benefits.

Checkr $679M
Private San Francisco, US

AI-powered background check platform that modernizes the hiring process for companies of all sizes, serving over 100,000 customers including Uber, DoorDash, and Instacart.

Notion $337M
Private San Francisco, US

All-in-one workspace that combines notes, documents, wikis, project management, and AI-powered tools used by millions of individuals and teams worldwide.

Clubhouse $312M
Private San Francisco, United States

Clubhouse is a social audio app that lets users join live, drop-in voice conversations organized into topic-based rooms. The app became a cultural phenomenon during the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching a $4 billion valuation in April 2021.

Envoy $201M
Private San Francisco, California, United States

Workplace management platform that helps companies welcome visitors, manage employee attendance, book desks and conference rooms, and handle deliveries. Originally an iPad-based visitor sign-in system, the company evolved into a full workplace platform serving over 16,000 locations globally.

Character.AI $193M
Private Menlo Park, US

Character.AI is a generative AI chatbot platform that lets users create and interact with customizable AI characters. Founded by former Google engineers who co-authored the Transformer paper and led the LaMDA project, the platform has over 20 million monthly active users.

Material Security $162M
Private Redwood City, California, United States

Material Security provides cloud workspace security for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, protecting organizations from email attacks, account takeovers, and data breaches. Founded by former Dropbox engineers, the company applies a zero-trust approach that assumes breach and protects sensitive content even after an attacker gains access to an inbox.

Braintrust $124M
Private San Francisco, US

AI-native observability and evaluation platform that helps engineering and product teams evaluate, log, and monitor AI agents and large language model interactions in production. Built on a custom database optimized for massive AI trace data, the platform enables teams to run experiments against real datasets, compare prompts side-by-side, catch regressions in CI, and inspect every trace with real-time latency, cost, and quality metrics.

Clipboard Health $94M
Private San Francisco, US

Clipboard Health is a healthcare staffing marketplace that connects independent healthcare professionals, including nurses, CNAs, medical assistants, and other allied health workers, with open shifts at healthcare facilities. The platform enables healthcare workers to choose when and where they work, while helping facilities fill critical staffing gaps. Part of Y Combinator's W17 batch, the company has grown to serve thousands of facilities across 30+ U.S. cities, reached $100M in annual revenue within three years, and has been profitable since 2022.

Convex $54M
Private San Francisco, United States

Convex is an open-source reactive backend-as-a-service platform that provides a real-time database, serverless functions, and client SDKs for building live-updating web and mobile apps. The platform integrates a TypeScript-based document store and function runtime for queries and mutations. Convex went open source in March 2024.

Investment data is compiled from multiple independent sources including company announcements, press coverage, and regulatory filings. While we strive for accuracy, amounts and dates may reflect reported figures at time of announcement.