Grant Gordon

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@Grant__Gordon

GGF. ex @armada_ai, Stanford, Sequoia Company Design
@DecartAI @watneyrobotics @CormaAI @Parallax @terraindustries @trygravityai @GroundedSI

San Francisco, CA ggf.co Joined August 2020

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Grant Gordon @Grant__Gordon Sep 24

It’s launch day at Parallax.

Turns out AI is not just weights & data — it’s the accumulated effect of massive, physical change on the ground. Most of that change is the delivery of huge number of electrons. Now, we’re headed for an energy cliff — the 65GW+ gap between the compute we want and the energy we need to run it.

Enter Parallax. Gas turbines are the answer, but nobody makes one built for this, and OEM delivery times are slipping into the 2030s. So Parallax is building the first turbine designed from scratch for AI compute.

Carl is building the dream team for this mission. Proud investor. Go join it!

Carl Schoeller Verified account @CarlSchoeller Sep 24

Today we’re launching Parallax, the AI energy company with a $117m fundraise led by Founders Fund, Eclipse, Lux, Diffusion, Greylock and General Catalyst. (1/5)

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Grant Gordon @Grant__Gordon Sep 17

I met Ryan and Sean almost two years ago and was immediately struck by their courage. They'd closed a friends-and-family round a month earlier and were diving headfirst into deployment — at a time when that was still deeply contrarian. I wrote the first outside check.

Few people know how dialed this team really is. Ryan and Sean are brilliant, but more than that: they work harder (they originally slept in little bedrooms above their ex-garage office), they hire better, and they think more strategically than anyone else. They knew before the rest of us that the hardest part of robotics would always be deployment, and they ran headfirst at it.

There are so few places to work on dexterous robots that actually deploy, and Watney has more of them running 24/7/365 than anyone. They stand up the AI datacenters making this generation of models possible. The team is small but ferocious, and the responsibility of literally building AI is not taken lightly.

If you've ever wanted to build the next great American company — join Watney. I've sent best friends and family members to work there. Ryan and Sean are the kind of founders who raise your ambition and sharpen your talents. They've done both for me.

Thank you, and congratulations.

Watney Verified account @watneyrobotics Sep 17

We’ve raised $80 million in Series A funding, co-led by the Valor Atreides AI Fund and Hummingbird Ventures, with continued participation from Conviction, Abstract, A*, and Grant Gordon. This brings our total raised to over $100 million.

We started Watney by asking a simple question -- what can a robot enable in industries where the work remains valuable on an infinite horizon? We found an answer in the fundamental inputs to civilization: energy, matter, and intelligence.

A robot will never be as charming as a barista or as personable as a housekeeper, but it can be more exacting than a surgeon. And, a breakthrough in one quickly becomes the capability of millions. We don’t imitate human motions or processes. We care about the new, differentiated capabilities robots can unlock. We work on problems where our choice of embodiment gives us an order of magnitude advantage, whether through precision, reliability, or scale.

Compute is just beginning to transform society, but it’s constrained by execution. Since 2025, Watney has been serving the largest hyperscalers in the world, helping accelerate their compute rollout through an end-to-end deployment model.

Across hundreds of thousands of hours in customer facilities, our systems have achieved more than four nines of reliability. They’ve enabled our customers to build data centers faster, at larger scales, and with more ambitious architectures. Today, we operate the largest fleet of dexterous robots running 24/7/365 across the United States.

This is all to say, it's an exciting time at Watney. We’re all here because we want to see more ambition in the physical world. We are hiring across all domains. Join us.

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Grant Gordon @Grant__Gordon Sep 16

In robotics data, scale and enrichment make the difference.

There are seemingly endless purveyors of egocentric data, but the labs are tired of onboarding new suppliers and most data comes in useless. That means high-quality players have to build massive vertically-integrated operations immediately, and sub-scale players are functionally locked out of the market.

Until now — GSI lets anyone upload any amount of data, enrich it to SOTA benchmarks, and sell at scale to the labs.

They’ll even send you the lab-used hat and glasses they’ve developed directly.

This is an entirely new kind of robotics (data) company. Hats off to @AdemiAdeniji @vincentjliu and team @GroundedSI for bringing it to us!

Grounded Superintelligence Verified account @GroundedSI Sep 16

Grounded API is live.

- SOTA on hand-tracking benchmarks (< 1 cm)
- SOTA on SLAM benchmarks
- In-the-wild ego data -> enriched data in minutes
- Integration with @huggingface @LeRobotHF & @rerundotio
- Built for @BitRobotNetwork RoboCap suite

Technical report & more↓

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Grant Gordon @Grant__Gordon Apr 4, 2025

Notion Mail is live! @milichab @JasonBud @ivanhzhao have created something beautiful. Now it takes flight

Grant Gordon @Grant__Gordon Mar 7, 2025

I wish more founders thought about SLED — state & local governments are like the SMBs of the public sector. They can be great laboratories for startups.

SLED folks can buy smaller, exist in dense networks, and are incredibly mimetic (in a good way!). That creates awesome revenue velocity eg. Flock, Peregrine

Rex Salisbury Verified account @rexsalisbury Mar 6, 2025

3) the only thing less popular than consumer --selling to government (4 companies).

selling to gov't is so unpopular that 50% of the govtech companies don't do it.

instead they sell to other startups to help them sell to government.

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