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Gravity built an Ad Network that places advertisements inside AI conversations to…

2026-08-06 · 19:50 UTC ·@trygravityai ·1 min read

Brief

Gravity (trygravityai) spent the past year building an ad network that embeds ads in AI conversations to subsidize free access to models, claiming 14.3 million users, consumer app revenue growth up to 14,722%, and helping startups reach Series A. The company raised $38M in a Series A co-led by Lightspeed and Committed Capital.

Why it matters

Gravity built an Ad Network that places advertisements inside AI conversations to monetize products and pursue its mission to “Make AI free” by subsidizing access.

Key details

  • Over the past year Gravity reports consumer AI apps on its platform grew revenue by up to 14,722% and that it has given 14.3 million people free access to AI products.
  • Gravity raised $38M (Series A co-led by Lightspeed and Committed Capital); Seed led by Caffeinated Capital with participation from Basis Set, Haystack VC, Logos Fund, Grant Gordon, and angels including Parker Harris, Alex Atallah, Scott Belsky, and Vercel’s Guillermo Rauch.
Source evidence

Over the past year of building Gravity, we’ve had consumer AI applications grow revenue by up to 14,722%, helped teams go from idea to raising a Series A, and most importantly, we’ve given 14.3m people free access to AI products. All by creating an Ad Network for brands to place advertisements inside of AI conversations.

We’ve raised $38m, with @lightspeedvp and Committed Capital co-leading the Series A and @caffeinatedcap leading our Seed round with participation from @BasisSet, @haystackvc, Logos Fund, @grant__gordon and more.

We’re also fortunate for the support of our incredible angels, including @parkerharris, @alexatallah, @scottbelsky, @rauchg, @ianwcrosby, Nick Marwell and @sholtodouglas, @jgsilverman, @ZepHaus, and many others.

Our mission is simple: Make AI free by embedding helpful and relevant advertisements into AI products so that everyone has access to frontier technology.