# AIX Ventures

> AIX Ventures's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Chroma, HoneyHive, Hugging Face, Inc. and 1 more, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Venture firm.

Website: https://www.aixventures.com

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine)**, Series C, May 2022
  - [Carbon-X](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.md), graded C, 61/100
  - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/series-c
- **Chroma**, Pre-seed, May 2022, led a round
  - [Chroma API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/chroma.md), graded E, 45.3/100
  - Source: https://www.trychroma.com/blog/seed
- **HoneyHive**, Pre-Seed
  - [HoneyHive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honeyhive.md), graded C, 55.7/100
  - Source: https://www.honeyhive.ai/blog/honeyhive-raises-7-4m
- **Hugging Face, Inc.**, Series C, May 2022
  - [Hugging Face Inference Endpoints](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hugging-face-inference-endpoints.md), graded B, 64.7/100
  - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/series-c
- **Hugging Face**, Series C, May 2022
  - [SmolLM3-3B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smollm3-3b.md), graded C, 61/100
  - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/series-c

## Where they invest

- Open-weight models, 2
- Retrieval & vector search, 1
- Agent observability & evals, 1
- GPU & serverless compute, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Clément Delangue](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/clement-delangue/), Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face
- [Julien Chaumond](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/julien-chaumond/), Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face
- [Thomas Wolf](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/thomas-wolf/), Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face
- [Jeff Huber](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jeff-huber/), Chroma
- [Anton Troynikov](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/anton-troynikov/), Chroma

## Questions

### Which AI tools has AIX Ventures invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Chroma, HoneyHive, Hugging Face, Inc. and Hugging Face backed by AIX Ventures.

### How are AIX Ventures's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Carbon-X (C, 61), Chroma API + MCP (E, 45.3), HoneyHive (C, 55.7), Hugging Face Inference Endpoints (B, 64.7) and SmolLM3-3B (C, 61).

Investors are named from the companies' own announcements, the investors' own pages, Y Combinator's company pages, public filings and news reports of a round, each with its source. An investor isn't a sign of quality, and nobody can pay to be listed or to change a grade. To correct something or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.

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