Anna Patterson has had a storied career in Silicon Valley. She founded three startups, including search engine upstarts Xift and Cuil, as well as rel=”nofollow” href=”https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/anna-pattersons-ceramic-ai-looks-to-help-enterprises-build-models-faster-and-more-efficiently/Recall.archive.org”>recall.archive.org, which became the Internet Archive. She was the vice president of engineering at Google, and later on started Gradient Ventures, an AI-focused seed fund. And she isn’t done building.
Patterson told TechCrunch that a few years ago she had the itch to start something new again, but was unsure she had another startup in her. But after a breast cancer diagnosis in 2023 and being out of…

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