Building What’s Next in AI at gAI Ventures

At gAI Ventures, we partner at the very beginning of a company’s life. We help design the idea, build the product, create the go-to-market strategy, and invest at incorporation. We act as an institutional co-founder, not a passive investor.

This model exists for one reason: Vertical AI demands depth, not distance.

Enterprises don’t need a pitch deck. They need highly-tuned AI products, deeply integrated into their tools, data, and workflows, supported by people who understand their problems better than they do.

That is why gAI Ventures was created: to build a new class of companies where AI, industry knowledge, and execution are inseparable.

Our focus is simple and deliberate: Vertical AI in Financial Services, Enterprise Productivity, and Commerce. Not horizontal tools. Not generic platforms. But companies designed to become the operating system for an entire industry.

We are not waiting for the future to arrive. We are engineering it.

We help our portfolio founders design, build, and deploy the core AI systems. We architect the product, the platform, and the technical foundation. Our team has decades of experience across AI research, venture building, investing, product, design and go-to-market execution. 

Our involvement is not symbolic. It is operational.

We work alongside founders. We build proprietary, industry-specific workflows that cannot be copied overnight. We apply technical innovation and years of experience across complex workflows creates real moats. We work on the GTM motion from the first customer conversation, because distribution is as important as innovation.

The capital we invest is important, but it is not the most valuable contribution we make. The most valuable thing we offer is leverage: in product, speed, network, and decision-making.

We are not advisors. We are not service providers. We are not spectators. We build with you.

Domain expertise as the source of true advantage

We do not look for founders who simply want to enter AI. We look for those who have lived the problem they want to solve.

The best companies are born when domain experience meets execution capability.

Our founders are ex-bankers, enterprise operators, experts embedded in the system, professionals who understand exactly where time is lost, risk is created, and value is confined. They come with insight. We bring the infrastructure and the velocity.

Together, we convert that knowledge into defensible, scalable, intelligent platforms.

This is not about imposing a rigid playbook. This is about co-creating an entirely new operating system for an industry using shared conviction.

The company remains the founder’s vision. Our role is to amplify it. To turn it into reality faster, smarter, and with fewer blind spots.

From point solutions to industry operating systems

Every company we launch is designed with expansion in mind from day one. We think in terms of network effects, data advantages, deep integrations, ecosystem partnerships, and switching costs. A product might begin in one narrow use case, but the architecture always anticipates becoming the backbone of a broader system.

Eventually, we want you to redefine how an entire industry operates.

That is what makes Vertical AI so powerful. It does not sit on top of business as usual. It becomes business as usual.

A team shaped by execution and pattern recognition

gAI Ventures is led by a team with deeply complementary strengths.

Amit Goel built and exited MEDICI, known as the “Bloomberg for Fintech”, which was acquired by a NY based unicorn, Prove. He has done angel investments in over 30 companies himself, and has lived the lifecycle of building, scaling, and exiting multiple companies.

Vijay Rajendran brings a global investment and venture studio lens, having led portfolios at 500 Global, shaped venture strategies at BBVA, and supported over 1,800 startups across 80+ countries. His strength lies in identifying founders early and helping them transform into operators capable of scale.

Kushal Prakash adds deep technical authority. A BITS Pilani, TU Delft alumnus, Forbes 30 Under 30, and AI researcher, he has spent 5+ years in AI research and engineering, previously being the CTO of a well funded fintech. He represents the engineering backbone that allows ideas to become breakthrough products.

Together, the team blends pattern recognition, technical excellence, investor maturity, and founder empathy, to find and back the most promising founders building in vertical AI in financial services, enterprise productivity and commerce. 

What we are building today

We’ve made a lot of progress at gAI Ventures, proving the Venture Studio model and its efficacy.

FastTrackr AI is a clear example of our approach in action. Built for Registered Investment Advisors, Wealth Managers in the United States, it is an AI stack that automates documentation, transitions, meeting insights, CRM tasks, and operational workflows that drain advisors’ time.

With live adoption across multiple RIAs, including firms managing over one billion dollars in assets, FastTrackr AI is already reshaping how advisors work. Vineet Mohan, the founder is an ex-HSBC USA, EU and IIM Bangalore/NIT. 

Swik AI is another portfolio company, Intelligence Layer for Small Business Lending. The founder is IIT/Harvard, ex- JP Morgan, Capital One and lending fintech that went public.

Another portfolio co, Stella AI was #1 Product of the Day on product hunt. Stella is an AI executive assistant that sits inside your inbox: sorting email clutter, drafting replies instantly, and booking calls automatically.

Beyond these, we are actively developing and sourcing companies in Accounting, Insurance, and Agentic Commerce. These are sectors facing demographic shortages, rising complexity, fragmented data, and mounting compliance pressures. They are perfectly positioned for intelligent automation and augmentation.

This is not speculative. It is inevitable.

The founders we are looking for

We are looking for builders who are obsessed with solving a real problem for a real customer. People who see friction and cannot unsee it. People who are comfortable thinking long-term, building depth, and standing on conviction when consensus is unclear.

If you are a domain expert in Financial Services, Enterprise Productivity, or Commerce, and you carry a bold, informed vision of how your industry can be transformed, you belong in this conversation.

We are selective. But we are open. Read our Manifesto here.

If you’re a founder, reach out to amit[at]gai[dot]ventures 

Why gAI Ventures exists

The world is at the beginning of the most significant transformation in how work is done. Agentic Intelligence and processes are becoming embedded into every decision, every workflow, every interaction.

The winners will not be those who chase the loudest tools. They will be the ones who design the deepest systems. gAI Ventures exists to to help the right people build the right companies at the right moment in history.