Adam J. Gramling
Founder, SR² Ventures
Adam J. Gramling is an AI entrepreneur and angel investor, and founder of SR² Ventures. Previously, he built and led Scale AI’s technical account management and program management teams for generative AI.
Based in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Career
SR² Ventures
Founder and Managing Partner of a personal investment and advisory practice focused on artificial intelligence.
Scale AI
Built and led technical account management and program management for generative AI, working with frontier AI labs and researchers on human-data programs for model development. At Scale AI, Adam helped develop a four-week onboarding framework that moved new team members from company and role context to account knowledge and independent work.
Earlier work & ventures
Before Scale AI, Adam worked in strategy, operations, and consulting at NetApp, Howard Hughes Holdings, and KPMG. His earlier ventures include Higea Technologies, whose oil-spill recovery work earned the $10,000 Parsons Innovation Award in 2015, and USC teams in the Hult Prize competitions in Shanghai and Dubai. In 2011, Adam received a team honorable mention in Senior Environmental Science at the California State Science Fair for a project on magnetic oil recovery.
Education
B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California. Adam grew up in Los Gatos, California, and attended Purdue University before transferring to USC.
Affiliations
Selected coverage
The Verge · December 15, 2025
Quoted on competition and growth in the human-data industry.
The Operator · February 20, 2026
An interview on client delivery, AI operations, and launching SR² Ventures.
Cal Poly · May 6, 2015
Recognition for an early venture developing oil-spill recovery technology.
Daily Trojan · March 8, 2016
Coverage of Adam’s team advancing to the Dubai competition.