The shingle is up!
By Sunil Grover, Managing Partner, G2C Ventures
We are just getting started.
Seven years ago, a group of visionary investors and partners came together around a simple but powerful conviction: that data science, machine learning and natural language processing would redefine how business gets done. GPT-1 was released and BERT came shortly after.
What started as a handful of investment syndicates in 2018 has grown into something far larger than any of us imagined — and we are more energized today than ever.
To our founding investor partners — thank you. You didn’t just write checks. You believed in a thesis before the market caught up.
Fund I delivered two companies ranking in the top 150 of Inc5000’s fastest-growing businesses in America, including the #1 fastest-growing company in America as recently as 2025. Two of our founders Jeff Lu and Yehonatan Bitton were recognized as top 40 standout entrepreneurs and business leaders alongside the founders of Anthropic and Oracle.
And as a fund, we’ve just been recognized as a top-3 finalists for the “Sector Pioneer” award at the Allocator One Alpha Awards – Americas. Last week, we received an invite to join Emerging Institute Cohort 5 from VC Labs — validations we are proud of and humbled by.
But all of that is a prologue.
We have evolved our strategy from “early-stage enterprise AI” into something more precise: a system of outcomes. We are not allocating capital into a category. We are partnering with entrepreneurs who are redefining entire industries — and building the ecosystem around them to make sure they win. Three initiatives define how we do that.
Venture Builder Series
The next generation of enterprise workflows will be built on a new stack, replacing the legacy workflow systems of the past. Our Venture Builder Series brings together founders, engineers, and operators around the platform companies that will form that foundation.
We’ve hosted marquee events with three of the most consequential players in this new stack: Anthropic (the AI intelligence layer), Vercel (the frontend of how modern applications are built and deployed), and Databricks (next-generation data architecture for both structured and unstructured data at scale). Events have been held in San Francisco and Palo Alto, and the series is expanding.
The format is deliberately hands-on: attendees arrive, build something in 45 minutes, present, and compete for awards. Four award-winning teams have already emerged — people who met each other for the first time at our door and left as co-builders. That is precisely the kind of community we are here to create.
Third Coast Foundry & Research Technology Transfer
Berkeley and Stanford have long set the gold standard for translating faculty research into market-defining companies. Our conviction is that this model should not be confined to two zip codes.
Through our partnership with Third Coast Foundry — co-anchored with Wisconsin Investment Management Company (WISIMCO) — we are convening eight universities that collectively produce the largest number of engineering graduates in the nation and generate over $10 billion in annual research output. We are giving their faculty researchers and entrepreneurially-minded academics direct access to our Venture Builder methodology, our platform partnerships, and our operator and investor networks.
The gap we are closing is specific: product-market fit. There is no shortage of capital allocators. What is genuinely scarce is the patient, structured work of taking a research-born idea from first principles to a repeatable commercial motion. We are fundamentally reengineering early-stage company building — beyond incubation, but the critical phase after launch when the hardest questions about customers, value, and market actually get answered.
Internship Program
The initiative we are perhaps most quietly proud of is the one that gets the least fanfare: our internship program.
More than 50 students have graduated from our program since its launch. Many stayed with us through their early careers. Others took what they built here and created remarkable things elsewhere. Most of them are now emerging as industry leaders in their own right — and watching that happen is one of the most gratifying parts of this work. We believe the next generation of builders deserves real exposure to how frontier companies are actually built, not just theory.
Join us.
We are headquartered in downtown Palo Alto, with a satellite office in San Francisco, and we are constantly traveling — across the nation and around the world — in search of the right partnerships and the right people.
There are several ways to be part of what we are building:
- As an entrepreneur building a company at the frontier of enterprise AI and the next generation of workflows and outcomes
- As an early-stage employee with one of our portfolio companies, getting in at the ground floor of something significant
- As a venture partner helping our companies identify and connect with proven entrepreneurs who have existing track records
- As an investment partner — for those with the capacity and conviction to co-build this with us financially
Our events are oversubscribed every time we run them. Investor partners and entrepreneur partners receive preferred access. But the door is open — come find your place in this community.
The shingle is up. The work is just beginning. And the best companies we will ever back haven’t been founded yet.
We’d love to build them with you.
