Poppy Gustafsson
Anna Patterson
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“ Gradient Ventures was launched by Alphabet and Patterson to invest in early-stage AI startups ” 08
Poppy Gustafsson
CEO
Darktrace
As CEO of AI cyber company Darktrace , Poppy Gustafsson has led the company through significant growth and global expansion . Gustafsson was named Vodafone ’ s Woman of the Year for Technology and Innovation in 2020 , Tech Businesswoman of the Year at the UK Tech Awards 2019 and won the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Awards 2019 . Also in 2019 , the CEO – along with Darktrace ’ s CTO – was awarded an OBE ( Officer of the Order of the British Empire ) for services to cyber security .
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Anna Patterson
Managing Partner and Founder
Gradient Ventures
VP of Engineering
Google
Anna Patterson is an accomplished AI leader . As a VP of Engineering at Google , she architected the search serving system that increased the index size by over 10x at the time of launch , helped Android scale from 3 million to over a billion phones , launched Google Play , and led the search , infrastructure , and recommendation teams .
Gradient Ventures was launched by Alphabet and Patterson to invest in early-stage artificial intelligence start-ups . Patterson also co-founded Cuil , a clustering-based search engine .
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