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Gravity

Real-time contextual advertising platform for AI

Overview

Gravity builds an AI-native advertising network that monetizes conversations from large language models. It offers Node.js and Python SDKs plus a REST API so AI apps can earn money by embedding contextual native ads in responses without adding latency. The system analyzes chats in real time to detect intent, runs an instant auction, and serves sponsored suggestions with either advertiser-provided or auto-generated creatives, while providing self-serve campaign management and real-time measurement. Its goal is to subsidize free or low-cost access to AI tools by creating the economic infrastructure for AI monetization.

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About Gravity

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Why Gravity is rated
C+
Rated C on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & AnalyticsEnterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$30.5M

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Founded

2025

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What believers are saying

  • Gravity raised $30.5 million Series A on August 6, 2026, from Lightspeed.
  • Best Buy, Target, Vercel, and MongoDB already use Gravity's AI ad network.
  • Gravity reports 14.3 million people reached and 14,722% revenue growth for customers.

What critics are saying

  • OpenAI and Google own the surfaces Gravity monetizes, crushing distribution by 2027.
  • AI assistants can copy native ad slots, commoditizing Gravity's exchange and targeting.
  • Agent-to-agent ads face trust, disclosure, and regulation backlash before meaningful scale.

What makes Gravity unique

  • Gravity embeds sponsored suggestions inside AI conversations with zero added latency.
  • Gravity sells full-stack AI ads: DSP, SSP, and exchange in one platform.
  • Zach Oldham and Leo Martinez built low-latency infrastructure from crypto market-making experience.

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Funding

Total Funding

$30.5M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

1 Rounds

Notable Investors:
Series A funding typically happens when a startup has a product and some customers, and now needs funding to scale. This money is usually used to grow the team, expand marketing, and improve the product. Venture capital firms are frequently the main investors here.
Series A Funding Comparison
Above Average

Industry standards

$15M
$8.2M
$15M
$30M
$30.5M

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Company News

Business Insider
Aug 6th, 2026
A startup that places ads for brands like Best Buy and Target in AI platforms raised $30.5 million

Gravity places ads in AI platforms, including ChatGPT, Codebuff, Magneta, and Runnable. It has begun exploring agent-to-agent ads.

Frontrun
Aug 6th, 2026
Gravity raised $38M. we flagged it at 36 followers, 92 days early.

Gravity raised $38M. Frontrun flagged it at 36 followers, 92 days early. tl;dr: Gravity raised $38M, with Lightspeed and Committed Capital co-leading the Series A and Caffeinated Capital leading the seed. frontrun flagged the company on may 6 2026, at 36 followers, 92 days before the announcement. the more interesting receipt: Lightspeed followed Gravity on july 30, seven days before announcing they co-led the round. who led Gravity's $38M? Gravity is building an ad network for AI: brands placing advertisements inside AI conversations, so consumer AI products can be free to use. the company says it has grown revenue for consumer AI applications by up to 14,722% and given 14.3 million people free access to AI products. the Series A was co-led by Lightspeed and Committed Capital. the seed was led by Caffeinated Capital with Basis Set, Haystack, Logos Fund, Grant Gordon and others. angels include Parker Harris, Alex Atallah, Scott Belsky, Guillermo Rauch, Ian Crosby, Nick Marwell and Sholto Douglas. flagged may 6 2026, announced august 6 2026. 92 days. Gravity entered the graph on may 6 off a single tracked follow, when the account had 36 followers. not 36 hundred. thirty six. it is still small today. at the time of the announcement the account sat at 355 followers, which means the entire round happened while the company was under 400 followers on X. this is the part that is hard to internalize until you watch it happen: a company can raise $38M from Lightspeed while its X account is smaller than your group chat. five tracked accounts followed Gravity between the flag and the news: | date | who followed | | may 6 2026 | CJ (the flag) | | june 15 2026 | Faraz Fatemi | | july 25 2026 | Nader Dabit | | july 26 2026 | JG | | july 30 2026 | Lightspeed Venture Partners | read that last row again. Lightspeed followed Gravity on july 30. on august 6 they announced they co-led the company's Series A. a fund following a company is not a press release, and it is not confidential either. it is a public action that happens while the deal is being worked, and it is visible to anyone who is watching the right accounts on the right day. seven days is not a long lead. it is long enough to make a call. this is the same shape as Sapiom and Osmo yesterday: tracked accounts accumulate on a company for months, and the announcement lands last. what makes Gravity a cleaner receipt is the follower count. at 36 followers there is no crowd to hide in, no trending page, no press. one tracked follow was the entire signal, and it was enough. the useful question is not "how did we know Gravity would raise." nobody knows that. the question is whether a company that the smart money is quietly following at 36 followers deserves ten minutes of your attention before it has a headline. Frontrun think the answer is obviously yes, and the follow graph is the cheapest way to find those companies at that size. this raise clears its receipt ledger's minimum lead with room to spare, so it joins the permanent record with its flag date. Gravity already raised. the useful list is the one where the round has not happened yet. frontrun watches the follow graphs of 2,000+ tracked venture investors on X and flags the companies they converge on, with a date, the morning it happens. see the signal this article is built on frontrun tracks the follow graphs of 2,000+ venture investors and flags companies months before rounds are announced. companies and founders surfaced on frontrun. curated, every week.

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