OpenGradient Raises $9.5M in Total Funding

The round also saw participation from Coinbase Ventures, SV Angel, Foresight Ventures, Pragma, SALT, Symbolic Capital, Canonical Crypto, Black Dragon, NEAR, Celestia, and Thanefield Capital. Angel investors included Balaji Srinivasan (ex-CoinbaseCTO), Illia Polosukhin (co-founder, NEAR), Sandeep Nailwal (co-founder, Polygon), Bruno Faviero (Magna), Daniel Cheung and Ryan Watkins (Syncracy Capital), and Ekram Ahmed (Celestia).

The company plans to use the funds to grow its network and support transparent, trackable model execution.

OpenGradient is a decentralized network designed to run and verify AI models at scale, acting as an AI coprocessor rather than a standalone blockchain. It allows applications, blockchains, and systems to handle heavy computational tasks by leveraging a network of specialized GPUs and secure nodes, enabling companies to run AI workloads such as fraud detection and content generation while allowing users to verify results through cryptographic proofs.

The platform has three main parts: a verifiable inference network that runs AI tasks and adds cryptographic proof so results can be trusted, a decentralized model hub with over 2,000 models where creators can publish and earn from their work and developer tools like SDKs and APIs that make it easy to use the system without needing deep technical knowledge.

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AI is becoming a key part of software, finance and automated systems, but the infrastructure supporting it remains unclear. Developers often have to either trust black box systems or build costly, homegrown methods to verify results. As AI takes on larger roles, such as decision-making or asset management, this lack of transparency poses a serious risk.

About OpenGradient

Founded in 2024, by Matthew Wang and Adam Balogh, OpenGradient is a decentralized network built to run, and verify AI models at scale. It works as an AI coprocessor, allowing apps, blockchains, and systems to handle heavy computational tasks via a network of specialized GPUs and secure nodes. The platform includes a verifiable inference system, a model hub with over 2,000 models and developer tools that make it easy to use AI with trusted and trackable results. OpenGradient is backed by investors such as a16z crypto and Coinbase Ventures.

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