Gregory Ray

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Founder at Glade Robotics · LLMs, B2B SaaS

Glade Robotics
Pittsburgh, PA · ET (UTC-5)
13+ years experience
Northwestern University
English
Raising
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Overview

Building Glade Robotics in Pittsburgh - AI agents for operations teams. Grew the team to 120 people across 5 countries. Before that: Salesforce and Shopify. Most at home with fundraising and product.

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  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Questions about AI agents for operations teams
  • Second opinions on LLMs decisions
  • Early customers and design partners
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  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Fundraising consultants

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Skills
fundraisingautomationLLMsproductB2B SaaS
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Pre-seed round open - freight matching for manufacturers in Southeast Asia, $318k MRR

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$318k
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
$579k from angels
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
$318k MRR after 23 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

$318k MRR after 23 months. Looking for investors who know B2B SaaS and can help with expansion into North America.

Pittsburgh, PAb2b saasproductautomation
Open

Experience

  1. Founder
    Jan 2022 - Present
    Glade Robotics · 4 yr 9 mo · Contract · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Grew the team to 83 people across 5 countries.
    • Previously built and sold a small AI agents for operations teams company.
  2. Staff Full-Stack Engineer
    Oct 2018 - Jan 2022
    Salesforce · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Built the experimentation framework 37 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 37 minutes to under 3.
  3. Platform Engineer
    Dec 2016 - Aug 2018
    Shopify · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Wrote the automation service that now handles 4 million requests a day.
    • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 725ms to 44ms.
  4. Director of Engineering
    Dec 2014 - Aug 2016
    Apple · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 397ms to 157ms.
    • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 35 a week to 1.
  5. Principal Engineer
    Jul 2013 - Dec 2014
    Stripe · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Previously an operator for 8 years before investing.

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Education

  1. Northwestern University
    BA, Business Administration
    2004 - 2008

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