Amit Goel
Founder & CEO
Technology operator, investor, and venture builder with a proven record of creating companies, incubating products, and backing early-stage innovation.
LP & Investor · gAI Ventures
Investing in Hyper-Verticalized AI Companies.
Focused on building and investing in Vertical AI companies in Financial Services, Enterprise Productivity, and Commerce.
- Vehicle
- gAI Start Fund + Fund II
- Cheque size
- Individuals: 50-250KInstitution: 250K-2M USD
- Target total AUM
- ~$15M
Live in market03 companies
FastTrackr AI
AI for complex workflows in wealth management.
Financial Services · Wealth
Swik AI
The intelligence layer for small business lending.
Financial Services · Lending
Turtle AI
AI operations platform for SMBs and B2B teams.
Enterprise Productivity
Upcoming tickets · New sectors03 scoping
NT-01Ac
ScopingAI in Accounting
Books, reconciliation, audit, rebuilt agentic. Multi-billion seat market still on legacy.
NT-02In
ScopingAI in Insurance
Distribution, underwriting, claims as vertical AI loops. Carrier-aligned product surface.
NT-03Cm
ScopingAI in Agentic Commerce
Agent-driven buying, selling, and fulfillment loops. Infrastructure for the autonomous commerce layer.
Team
Operators who've shipped, scaled, and exited.
Kushal Prakash
Founder & CTO
AI researcher and technology entrepreneur focused on building reliable, production-grade AI systems. Leads product development and venture building efforts.
Vijay Rajendran
Head of Investments
Innovation leader and investor with deep experience building global startup ecosystems, advising corporations, and scaling new ventures.
Brain Trust
(Advisors)
Andreas Neidhart-Lau
Singapore
Head of Strategic Industry & Partnerships Practice, Google
Ex-Thought Machine, Thomson Reuters
Louie Gasparini
Silicon Valley
CEO, Covault (Digital identity & auth)
Ex-CTO of Cyberflow (acquired by Webroot), RSA Security, BBVA
Manoj Mohan
Silicon Valley
Head of Engineering, Intuit
Ex-Head of Data Engineering, Meta; Ex-Sr. Engineering Leader, Apple
Samant Nagpal
Seattle
GM & Chief Risk Officer, Head of Payments & Risk, Gusto
Ex-Head of Payments / Chief Risk Officer, Amazon, American Express
Steve Klebe
Silicon Valley
Payments advisor; Ex-Head of Enterprise Payments, Stripe
Ex-Head of BD, Google
04 / Fund Vehicles
One fund. Two vehicles.
Current Vehicle
gAI Start Fund
Operator-led co-build vehicle. Three companies live across three sectors.
Next Vehicle
Fund II
Capacity for strategic LPs.
Cheque size
- Individuals
- 50-250K
- Institution
- 250K-2M USD
Combined Target AUM
~$15M
Concentrated checks, co-build economics, founder-aligned terms.
Current LPs
Backed by operators from
06 / The System
People + Tech + Capital.
06.1 · The gAI Alpha
We don't just put capital and critique our founders - we build with them.
gAI Ventures is a Technical Venture Builder and a Fund designed to accelerate domain experts toward AI-first products with PMF and institutional-grade scale.
06.2 · The Solo Founder Renaissance
The Solo Founder Renaissance.
The Problem
For decades, founders were told they must have a technical cofounder. This “forced marriage” is now the leading cause of startup death.
“In YC's case, the number one cause of early death for startups is cofounder blowups.”
The Shift
In the AI era, the most scarce commodity isn't code - it's Leadership and Context. The technical barrier is collapsing, shifting power to those who understand the problem.
The Thesis
Distribution now requires deep “Founder-Market Fit.” We empower the solo expert who knows where the “bodies are buried” in their industry.
The Data
65%
of high-potential startups fail due to cofounder conflict.
(Source: Noam Wasserman, HBS)
Henry Ford
Automotive
Jeff Bezos
E-Commerce
Sara Blakely
Consumer
“None of them needed cofounders to build empires. Today's AI tools and gAI's infrastructure make this path more viable than ever.”
06.3 · Founder Discovery Process
Detailed process for identifying the right founder.
We spend a lot of time finding the right founder
- Top 1% experts in their respective fields.
- A person who knows where the “bodies are buried” in their industry. We empower them by removing the technical barrier.
06.4 · Capital Deployment
$50k + $200k investment.
Our system of building companies:
- 1Choose the right founders
We are mapping industries and developing hypothesis based on deep market analysis.
Our team and advisors have a strong demand-side network that allows us to reduce the risk in idea selection.
We identify the right founders and map them to specific use cases, creating the perfect [founder + idea] combo.
- 2Validate strongest ideas
gAI Fund I first invests
$50,000
BuildFeedbackIterateB2B AIB2C AI400+ Paid Users - 3Scale validated ventures
$200,000
Investment to accelerate once MVP and first customers are secured.
gAI helps with GTM through market research, expert guidance, and founder-led sales. Supported by our design and digital marketing team. Additionally, capital can be invested from future gAI Ventures Funds.
⚙ Founder / gAI team develops the engineering platform + AI engine → launches product → targets $10k MRR
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Build the future of
vertical AI with us.
We're looking for LPs who understand that the next wave of enterprise value is being built by domain experts, not just engineers.
Let's build the future together.
Amit Goel
Amit@gai.ventures
Vijay Rajendran
Vijay@gai.ventures