
Gradient Labs builds autonomous AI agents for the financial industry to automate customer support and operational processes across payments, lending, insurance, and wealth management. Their system processes complex service requests including fraud checks, document verification, and specialist support, maintaining compliance with regulatory standards. Known as Otto, this agent integrates with platforms like Zendesk or Intercom and delivers high customer satisfaction (CSAT), typically outperforming human agents on nuanced inquiries. It achieves significant resolution rates (40–60% from day one) and deep automation without extra configuration, while offering visibility into compliance and quality controls.

Gradient Labs builds autonomous AI agents for the financial industry to automate customer support and operational processes across payments, lending, insurance, and wealth management. Their system processes complex service requests including fraud checks, document verification, and specialist support, maintaining compliance with regulatory standards. Known as Otto, this agent integrates with platforms like Zendesk or Intercom and delivers high customer satisfaction (CSAT), typically outperforming human agents on nuanced inquiries. It achieves significant resolution rates (40–60% from day one) and deep automation without extra configuration, while offering visibility into compliance and quality controls.
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2023
Product: Autonomous conversational AI agent (Otto) for financial customer operations
Employee count: 25
Total funding: USD 16,650,000
Latest round: Series A (Jul 8, 2025) — lead: Redpoint
Customer operations and back-office automation for financial services
2023
Financial services / AI
Seed round reported with LocalGlobe as lead and multiple participating investors.
USD 13,000,000
Series A announced July 8, 2025; company blog cites $13M Series A led by Redpoint with participation from Exceptional Capital, Liquid 2, LocalGlobe, and Puzzle Ventures.
“Backed by venture investors including Redpoint, LocalGlobe, Exceptional Capital, Liquid 2, and Puzzle Ventures”