Elad Gil
Co-founder @ Color
San Francisco, United States
Elad Gil is a Series A investor at Color in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Total investments:
- 35
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries Elad Gil invests in
Stages Elad Gil invests in
Countries Elad Gil invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $2.8M–$12M
- Series A
- $12M–$72M
- Series B
- $30M–$117M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 14 (40%)
- Artificial Intelligence 11 (31%)
- Information Technology 8 (23%)
- SaaS 4 (11%)
- Internet 4 (11%)
Stage
- Series A 12 (34%)
- Seed 11 (31%)
- Series B 8 (23%)
- Series C 2 (6%)
- Series E 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 28 (80%)
- United Kingdom 2 (6%)
- France 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Perplexity
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Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence. | $63M / Apr 23, 2024 | |
Anrok
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Anrok provides a software platform for global sales tax and VAT compliance. It handles integration with billing, payment, and HR systems to monitor tax exposure, validate VAT IDs, automate sales tax calculations, manage registrations, and coordinate filing and remittance processes. The company supports real-time tax collection, tracking of physicaland economic nexus and consolidated compliance reporting across jurisdictions. It offers no-code and API‐based connections to finance stacks, facilitating audit-ready transaction logs and jurisdictional coverage for digital services and goods. | $30M / Series B / Apr 11, 2024 | |
Fieldguide
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Fieldguide is a vertical AI company offering an end-to-end, agentic AI platform for audit and advisory firms. The company helps firms increase margins, win new business, and build stronger client relationships. Fieldguide is backed by leading venture capital funds, including Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, Justin Kan(Twitch/justin.tv), Elad Gil, Qasar Younis (Applied Intuition), Tracy Young (PlanGrid) & more. | $30M / Series B / Mar 26, 2024 | |
Succinct
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Succinct reads Ethereum state securely on any chain. | $55M / Series A / Mar 21, 2024 | |
Cognition
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Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code. | $21M / Series A / Mar 12, 2024 | |
Applied Intuition
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Applied Intuition is the vehicle intelligence company that accelerates the global adoption of safe, AI-driven machines. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion following its recent Series F funding round, Applied Intuition delivers the Vehicle OS, Self-Driving System, and toolchain to help customers build intelligent vehicles and shorten timeto market. 18 of the top 20 global automakers and major programs across the Department of Defense trust Applied Intuition's solutions to deliver vehicle intelligence. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, and agriculture industries and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Diego, CA, Ft. Walton Beach, FL, Ann Arbor, MI, London, Stuttgart, Munich, Stockholm, Bangalore, Seoul, and Tokyo. | $250M / Series E / Mar 11, 2024 | |
Magic
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Magic is an AI coding startup that enables developers to work with AI to find code for building apps. The company allows software engineers to use natural language to describe the application or function they want to create. Magic AI then generates all the necessary code to develop that app. | $117M / Series B / Feb 16, 2024 | |
Watershed
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Watershed is a software platform for running a world-class climate program. Start reducing your carbon footprint in weeks, not years. | $100M / Series C / Feb 01, 2024 | |
Nile
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Nile is a startup that intends to build a data system with serverless Postgres at its foundation. | $11.6M / Seed / Jan 30, 2024 | |
Recraft
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Recraft is a creative AI tool. | $12M / Series A / Jan 17, 2024 | |
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Co-Investors
About Color
Color is a population health technology company that focuses on providing large-scale health care programs and clinical testing. It improves the key health infrastructure systems to make health accessible, convenient, and cost-effective, serving health systems, employers, research institutions, and individual consumers.Its Population GenomicsPlatform offers modular and end-to-end solutions that enable organizations to effectively build and scale population health programs. It provides technology, software, and clinical services to help population programs launch and scale quickly. By combining innovative technology, specialized laboratory infrastructure, and clinical health services, Color creates complete and effective programs that include: Program strategy, planning, and implementation; Participant outreach and engagement; participant education and consent about testing and results; sample (blood or saliva) collection and genetic sequencing; data management and clinical reporting; HIPAA compliance and data security; return of results; clinical services, like genetic counseling and clinical pharmacy; personalized care routine; and ongoing population health management. Color’s partners include NorthShore University Health System, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Ochsner Health System, Verily, Visa, Levi Strauss, and Salesforce.Elad Gil, Nish Bhat, Taylor Sittler, and Othman Laraki launched Color in 2015 and is based in Burlingame, California.
Color Contacts
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Claire Vo
Chief Product Officer
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Elad Gil
Co-founder
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Alicia Zhou
VP of Research and Scientific Affairs
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Caroline Savello
VP of Commercial
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Dror Berman
Investor (Seed round and on)
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FAQ
What does Elad Gil invest in?
Elad Gil invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 35 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Elad Gil's check size?
Elad Gil typically joins rounds of $2.8M–$12M at Seed, $12M–$72M at Series A and $30M–$117M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Elad Gil participates in.
When did Elad Gil last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Elad Gil closed in Apr 2024. Shizune tracks 35 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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