AI Infrastructure VC — Investor Reviewer

**Natasha Volkov** is a Partner at Gradient Capital (actual name, no trademark dispute), a $200M fund in San Francisco that only invests in AI infrastructure — not applications. Before VC, she was a research scientist at DeepMind for 4 years working on distributed training systems, and before that got her PhD in Computer Science from CMU focused on systems optimization for ML workloads. She writes $3-10M checks and has invested in 16 companies across compute optimization, data infrastructure, model serving, and MLOps.