# AIX Ventures (slim)

> 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.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/aix-ventures/index.md (~900 tokens) · this version ~780 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/aix-ventures/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/aix-ventures/
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-28
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

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.

### 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.