Venture firm in listed AI tools
Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz has backed 50 companies behind 70 listings on Anchor Terminal.
Companies on Anchor Terminal
Catena Labs, Inc. Seed, May 2025, Series A, May 2026, led a round, through a16z crypto
Source catenalabs.com/blog/…
Merit Systems, Inc. Seed, January 2025, led a round, through a16z crypto
Source blockchaincapital.com/blog/…
Black Forest Labs Seed, August 2024, Series B, December 2025, led a round
Braintrust Series A, October 2024, Series B, February 2026, led a round
Source braintrust.dev/blog/…
Clay Labs Inc. Series D, 2026, through a16z perennial
Source clay.com/blog/series-d
Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp Series C, October 2021, led a round
Source clickup.com/blog/series-c
IVXS UK Limited (trading as ComplyAdvantage) through Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Source complyadvantage.com/about-us
Upstash Series A, February 2024, led a round
Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary Series A, August 2024, Series B, January 2025, Series C, June 2025, Series D, November 2025
Source cursor.com/blog/series-a
Anysphere, Inc. / Cursor (acquired by SpaceX per engineer biography) Series A, August 2024, Series B, January 2025, Series C, June 2025, Series D, November 2025
Source cursor.com/blog/series-a
Deel, Inc. Series D, October 2021, Series E, October 2025
Cognition AI, Inc. Series E, September 2026, led a round
- Devin C · Agent harnesses
Source cognition.com/blog/series-e
ElevenLabs Series C, January 2025, Series D, February 2026, Employee tender offer, September 2026, led a round
Exa Series C, May 2026, led a round, through a16z
fal (Features & Labels, Inc.) Seed, Series A, September 2024, Series B, February 2025, Series C, July 2025, Series D, December 2025, led a round
- fal image models B · Image generation
- fal music models B · Music generation
- fal video models B · Video generation
Source blog.fal.ai/…
Ghost (ZMJ, Inc.)
Source ghost.ai/about
Ideogram Seed, Series A, February 2024, led a round
Source a16z.com/announcement/…
Thinking Machines Lab Seed, July 2025, led a round
Source techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/…
Inngest Series A, September 2025
Source inngest.com/blog/…
Keycard Labs Seed, 2025, led a round
Source fintech.global/2025/10/23/…
Luma AI Series B, January 2024, Series C, November 2025
Source lumalabs.ai/series-b
Mercury Technologies, Inc. Series C, March 2025, Series D, May 2026
Source mercury.com/blog/…
Metronome (Stripe) Series C, February 2025
Source fortune.com/2025/02/25/…
Mistral AI Series C, September 2025
- Mistral AI API BB · Model APIs & inference
- Mistral Embed and Codestral Embed C · Embeddings & rerankers
- Mistral Moderation API C · Guardrails & safety filters
- Mistral OCR API C · Document parsing & extraction
- Mistral Vibe CLI B · Agent harnesses
- Mistral Voxtral Transcribe B · Speech-to-text
- Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 C · Speech-to-text
Source mistral.ai/news/…
Nansen Series A, June 2021, Series B, December 2021, led a round
Source nansen.ai/post/…
OpenRouter Series B, May 2026
Source openrouter.ai/blog/…
Optimizely
Source techcrunch.com/2020/09/03/…
Orbits / Nemus AI, Inc. Pre-seed, September 2026, through a16z Speedrun
Source tryorbits.com/press/…
High Agency, Inc. Cohort 005, through a16z speedrun
Pinecone Series B, April 2023, led a round
Source pinecone.io/newsroom/…
PlanetScale Series C, November 2021, through a16z
Source techcrunch.com/2021/11/16/…
Plivo
Source plivo.com/about
Pylon Series A, August 2024, led a round
Source techcrunch.com/2024/08/28/…
Reducto Series B, October 2025, led a round, through a16z
Source reducto.ai/blog/…
Replicate Series B, December 2023, led a round, through a16z
Source replicate.com/blog/series-b
Replicate (Cloudflare) Series A, February 2023, Series B, December 2023, led a round
- Replicate image models D · Image generation
- MusicGen on Replicate C · Music generation
- Replicate video models B · Video generation
Source replicate.com/blog/series-b
Resend Series A, December 2024, led a round
Source resend.com/blog/series-a
Rutter Series A, March 2022, led a round
Source rutter.com/blog/series-a
Skyfire CSX Fall 2024 cohort, through a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator
Sourcegraph, Inc.
Source sourcegraph.com/about
Fly.io Funding, July 2022, through A16Z
Source fly.io/blog/…
Stripe Funding round, September 2019, Series I, March 2023
Source stripe.com/newsroom/news/…
Svix Inc. Funding round, February 2023, led a round
Source svix.com/blog/…
Temporal Technologies Series D, February 2026, Series E, September 2026, led a round
Source temporal.io/news/…
Tigris Data Series A, October 2025
Source tigrisdata.com/blog/series-a
Town.com, Inc. Series A, June 2026, Series B, October 2026, led a round, through a16z
Source town.com/press/series-a
Conway Research (maker of Underdog) First round, April 2026
Source underdog.ai/backers
Conway Research First round, April 2026
Source underdog.ai/backers
ZeroEntropy (acquired by Notion) Seed, July 2025, through a16z Scout
Source techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/…
Zus Health, Inc. Series A, June 2021, $40M round, March 2023, led a round, through Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Source goodwinlaw.com/en/…
Where they invest
Image generation 4 Speech-to-text 4 Personal assistants 3 Agent harnesses 3 Music generation 3 Video generation 3 Payment & monetisation platforms 3 Code & developer platforms 2 Event delivery & webhooks 2 Retrieval & vector search 2 Local AI 2 Open-weight models 2 Human approval & handoff 2 Model APIs & inference 2 Embeddings & rerankers 2 Document parsing & extraction 2 Databases & files 2 Pay-per-call protocols 1 Commerce & checkout 1 Agent observability & evals 1 Lead & company data 1 Project & task management 1 Identity & business verification 1 Agent frameworks & SDKs 1 HR & employee operations 1 Conversational voice agents 1 Text-to-speech 1 Voice cloning & custom voices 1 Web search APIs 1 Fine-tuning 1 Agent auth & delegated access 1 Spend management & procurement 1 Guardrails & safety filters 1 Product analytics & experimentation 1 Design workspaces & canvases 1 Messaging APIs 1 Phone calling & voice transport 1 Customer support & helpdesk 1 GPU & serverless compute 1 Email delivery APIs 1 Accounting & invoicing 1 Code execution sandboxes 1 File storage & sharing 1 Health records & wellness data 1
Founders they backed
- Sam Ragsdale Merit Systems, Inc.
- Ryan Sproule Merit Systems, Inc.
- Mason Hall Merit Systems, Inc.
- Enes Akar Upstash
- Mehmet Dogan Upstash
- Bilal Upstash
- Michael Truell Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary
- Sualeh Asif Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary
- Aman Sanger Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary
- Arvid Lunnemark Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary
- Alex Bouaziz Deel, Inc.
- Shuo Wang Deel, Inc.
- Scott Wu Cognition AI, Inc.
- Steven Hao Cognition AI, Inc.
- Walden Yan Cognition AI, Inc.
- Mati Staniszewski ElevenLabs
- Piotr Dąbkowski ElevenLabs
- William Bryk Exa
- Jeffrey Wang Exa
- Burkay Gur fal (Features & Labels, Inc.)
- Gorkem Yurtseven fal (Features & Labels, Inc.)
- Zain Javaid Ghost (ZMJ, Inc.)
- Mohammad Norouzi Ideogram
- William Chan Ideogram
- Chitwan Saharia Ideogram
- Jonathan Ho Ideogram
- Mira Murati Thinking Machines Lab
- John Schulman Thinking Machines Lab
- Ian Livingstone Keycard Labs
- Jared Hanson Keycard Labs
- Matthew Creager Keycard Labs
- Amit Jain Luma AI
- Alex Yu Luma AI
- Alberto Taiuti Luma AI
- Scott Woody Metronome (Stripe)
- Kevin Liu Metronome (Stripe)
- Arthur Mensch Mistral AI
- Guillaume Lample Mistral AI
- Timothee Lacroix Mistral AI
- Alex Svanevik Nansen
- Lars Bakke Krogvig Nansen
- Evgeny Medvedev Nansen
- Alex Atallah OpenRouter
- Chris Clark OpenRouter
- Louis Vichy OpenRouter
- Pete Koomen Optimizely
- Nomaan Ahmed Orbits / Nemus AI, Inc.
- Erik Tillberg Orbits / Nemus AI, Inc.
- Tom Krcha High Agency, Inc.
- Edo Liberty Pinecone
- Venky B Plivo
- Michael Ricordeau Plivo
- Raunak Chowdhuri Reducto
- Adit Abraham Reducto
- Ben Firshman Replicate, Replicate (Cloudflare)
- Andreas Jansson Replicate, Replicate (Cloudflare)
- Zeno Rocha Resend
- Bu Kinoshita Resend
- Eric Yu Rutter
- Peter Zhou Rutter
- Amir Sarhangi Skyfire
- Craig DeWitt Skyfire
- Michael Dwan Fly.io
- Jerome Gravel-Niquet Fly.io
- Patrick Collison OpenAI and Stripe, Stripe, LLC, Stripe
- John Collison OpenAI and Stripe, Stripe, LLC, Stripe
- Tom Hacohen Svix Inc.
- Samar Abbas Temporal Technologies
- Maxim Fateev Temporal Technologies
- Ovais Tariq Tigris Data
- Himank Chaudhary Tigris Data
- Yevgeniy Firsov Tigris Data
- Jean-Denis Greze Town.com, Inc.
- Tony Vincent Town.com, Inc.
- Sigil Wen Conway Research (maker of Underdog), Conway Research
- Ghita Houir Alami ZeroEntropy (acquired by Notion)
- Nicholas Pipitone ZeroEntropy (acquired by Notion)
- Jonathan Bush Zus Health, Inc.
Questions
Which AI tools has Andreessen Horowitz invested in?
Anchor Terminal lists Catena Labs, Inc., Merit Systems, Inc., Black Forest Labs, Braintrust, Clay Labs Inc., Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp, IVXS UK Limited (trading as ComplyAdvantage), Upstash, Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary, Anysphere, Inc. / Cursor (acquired by SpaceX per engineer biography), Deel, Inc., Cognition AI, Inc., ElevenLabs, Exa, fal (Features & Labels, Inc.), Ghost (ZMJ, Inc.), Ideogram, Thinking Machines Lab, Inngest, Keycard Labs, Luma AI, Mercury Technologies, Inc., Metronome (Stripe), Mistral AI, Nansen, OpenRouter, Optimizely, Orbits / Nemus AI, Inc., High Agency, Inc., Pinecone, PlanetScale, Plivo, Pylon, Reducto, Replicate, Replicate (Cloudflare), Resend, Rutter, Skyfire, Sourcegraph, Inc., Fly.io, Stripe, Svix Inc., Temporal Technologies, Tigris Data, Town.com, Inc., Conway Research (maker of Underdog), Conway Research, ZeroEntropy (acquired by Notion) and Zus Health, Inc. backed by Andreessen Horowitz.
How are Andreessen Horowitz's companies graded?
On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, ACK-Pay (Agent Commerce Kit) (D, 53.8), Agentzon (D, 51.4), OpenInstinct (F, 22.1), Black Forest Labs FLUX API (B, 64.1), Braintrust API + MCP (C, 61.1), Clay (C, 57.7), ClickUp (C, 60.9), ComplyAdvantage (D, 52.7), Context7 (BB, 71.4), Upstash QStash (BB, 72.3), Upstash Vector API + MCP (B, 62.4), Cursor Agent SDK (B, 63.6), Cursor CLI (F, 35.4), Deel (B, 69.1), Devin (C, 55.7), ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP (BB, 71.4), ElevenLabs Music API (B, 66.9), ElevenLabs Scribe Speech to Text API (B, 69), ElevenLabs Text to Speech API + MCP (BB, 75.3), ElevenLabs Voice Cloning and Voice Design API (BB, 74.8), Exa API + MCP (B, 66.1), fal image models (B, 65.5), fal music models (B, 68.5), fal video models (B, 69.1), Core (F, 7.6), Ideogram API (D, 53.2), Inkling (B, 64.2), Inkling-Small (B, 66.5), Tinker (D, 51.2), Inngest (B, 66.1), Keycard (C, 56.3), Luma AI API (D, 48.3), Mercury API (B, 63.8), Metronome (B, 69.8), Mistral AI API (BB, 71.2), Mistral Embed and Codestral Embed (C, 58), Mistral Moderation API (C, 58.4), Mistral OCR API (C, 58.8), Mistral Vibe CLI (B, 63), Mistral Voxtral Transcribe (B, 64.2), Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 (C, 60.3), Nansen x402 API (B, 67.4), OpenRouter (B, 68.6), Optimizely Experimentation (B, 62.6), Orbits (F, 16), pen.dev (D, 47.8), Pinecone API + MCP (BB, 77.2), PlanetScale MCP Server (B, 66.6), Plivo API (C, 60.4), Plivo Voice API (C, 60.5), Pylon API + MCP (C, 54.3), Reducto API + MCP (B, 63.1), Replicate Deployments (B, 63.7), Replicate image models (D, 50.3), MusicGen on Replicate (C, 54.4), Replicate video models (B, 62.2), Resend API + MCP (BB, 77.1), Rutter Accounting API (C, 55.6), Skyfire API + MCP (E, 40.6), Sourcegraph MCP Server (C, 57.5), Sprites (C, 58.6), Stripe API + MCP (A, 82.9), Svix (BB, 74), Temporal (A, 78.3), Tigris (E, 44.7), Town (D, 48.8), Underdog (F, 30.1), Underdog Bark 3.0 (D, 48.2), ZeroEntropy zerank and zembed (F, 14.3) and Zus Health (C, 56.6).
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