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  "markdown": "Venture firm.\n\nWebsite: https://a16zcrypto.com\n\n## Companies on Anchor Terminal\n\n- **Catena Labs, Inc.**, Seed, May 2025, Series A, May 2026, led a round, through a16z crypto\n  - [ACK-Pay (Agent Commerce Kit)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ack-pay.md), graded D, 53.8/100\n  - Source: https://catenalabs.com/blog/announcing-catena-labs\n- **Merit Systems, Inc.**, Seed, January 2025, led a round, through a16z crypto\n  - [Agentzon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentzon.md), graded D, 51.4/100\n  - [OpenInstinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openinstinct.md), graded F, 22.1/100\n  - Source: https://www.blockchaincapital.com/blog/merit-a-new-economy-for-open-source\n- **Black Forest Labs**, Seed, August 2024, Series B, December 2025, led a round\n  - [Black Forest Labs FLUX API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/black-forest-labs.md), graded B, 64.1/100\n  - Source: https://bfl.ai/announcements/24-08-01-bfl\n- **Braintrust**, Series A, October 2024, Series B, February 2026, led a round\n  - [Braintrust API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/braintrust.md), graded C, 61.1/100\n  - Source: https://www.braintrust.dev/blog/announcing-series-a\n- **Clay Labs Inc.**, Series D, 2026, through a16z perennial\n  - [Clay](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clay.md), graded C, 57.7/100\n  - Source: https://www.clay.com/blog/series-d\n- **Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp**, Series C, October 2021, led a round\n  - [ClickUp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clickup.md), graded C, 60.9/100\n  - Source: https://clickup.com/blog/series-c/\n- **IVXS UK Limited (trading as ComplyAdvantage)**, through Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)\n  - [ComplyAdvantage](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/complyadvantage.md), graded D, 52.7/100\n  - Source: https://complyadvantage.com/about-us/\n- **Upstash**, Series A, February 2024, led a round\n  - [Context7](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/context7.md), graded BB, 71.4/100\n  - [Upstash QStash](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/upstash-qstash.md), graded BB, 72.3/100\n  - [Upstash Vector API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/upstash-vector.md), graded B, 62.4/100\n  - Source: https://upstash.com/blog/story-of-upstash\n- **Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary**, Series A, August 2024, Series B, January 2025, Series C, June 2025, Series D, November 2025\n  - [Cursor Agent SDK](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cursor-agent-sdk.md), graded B, 63.6/100\n  - Source: https://cursor.com/blog/series-a\n- **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\n  - [Cursor CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cursor-cli.md), graded F, 35.4/100\n  - Source: https://cursor.com/blog/series-a\n- **Deel, Inc.**, Series D, October 2021, Series E, October 2025\n  - [Deel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deel.md), graded B, 69.1/100\n  - Source: https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2025/10/254681-hr-company-deel-announces-300m-raise-at-17-3b-valuation\n- **Cognition AI, Inc.**, Series E, September 2026, led a round\n  - [Devin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.md), graded C, 55.7/100\n  - Source: https://cognition.com/blog/series-e\n- **ElevenLabs**, Series C, January 2025, Series D, February 2026, Employee tender offer, September 2026, led a round\n  - [ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elevenlabs-agents.md), graded BB, 71.4/100\n  - [ElevenLabs Music API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elevenlabs-music.md), graded B, 66.9/100\n  - [ElevenLabs Scribe Speech to Text API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elevenlabs-scribe.md), graded B, 69/100\n  - [ElevenLabs Text to Speech API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elevenlabs-tts.md), graded BB, 75.3/100\n  - [ElevenLabs Voice Cloning and Voice Design API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elevenlabs-voice-cloning.md), graded BB, 74.8/100\n  - Source: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/tender-22bn\n- **Exa**, Series C, May 2026, led a round, through a16z\n  - [Exa API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/exa-mcp.md), graded B, 66.1/100\n  - Source: https://exa.ai/blog/announcing-series-c\n- **fal (Features \u0026 Labels, Inc.)**, Seed, Series A, September 2024, Series B, February 2025, Series C, July 2025, Series D, December 2025, led a round\n  - [fal image models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fal-image.md), graded B, 65.5/100\n  - [fal music models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fal-music.md), graded B, 68.5/100\n  - [fal video models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fal-video.md), graded B, 69.1/100\n  - Source: https://blog.fal.ai/generative-media-needs-speed-fal-has-raised-23m-to-accelerate/\n- **Ghost (ZMJ, Inc.)**\n  - [Core](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ghost-core.md), graded F, 7.6/100\n  - Source: https://ghost.ai/about\n- **Ideogram**, Seed, Series A, February 2024, led a round\n  - [Ideogram API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ideogram.md), graded D, 53.2/100\n  - Source: https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-ideogram/\n- **Thinking Machines Lab**, Seed, July 2025, led a round\n  - [Inkling](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling.md), graded B, 64.2/100\n  - [Inkling-Small](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-small.md), graded B, 66.5/100\n  - [Tinker](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinker.md), graded D, 51.2/100\n  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/mira-muratis-thinking-machines-lab-is-worth-12b-in-seed-round/\n- **Inngest**, Series A, September 2025\n  - [Inngest](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inngest.md), graded B, 66.1/100\n  - Source: https://www.inngest.com/blog/announcing-inngest-series-a\n- **Keycard Labs**, Seed, 2025, led a round\n  - [Keycard](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/keycard.md), graded C, 56.3/100\n  - Source: https://fintech.global/2025/10/23/keycard-secures-38m-to-advance-ai-agent-security/\n- **Luma AI**, Series B, January 2024, Series C, November 2025\n  - [Luma AI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/luma.md), graded D, 48.3/100\n  - Source: https://lumalabs.ai/series-b\n- **Mercury Technologies, Inc.**, Series C, March 2025, Series D, May 2026\n  - [Mercury API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mercury.md), graded B, 63.8/100\n  - Source: https://mercury.com/blog/series-d-announcement\n- **Metronome (Stripe)**, Series C, February 2025\n  - [Metronome](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/metronome.md), graded B, 69.8/100\n  - Source: https://fortune.com/2025/02/25/exclusive-metronome-usage-based-billing-startup-raises-50-million-series-c\n- **Mistral AI**, Series C, September 2025\n  - [Mistral AI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-api.md), graded BB, 71.2/100\n  - [Mistral Embed and Codestral Embed](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-embeddings.md), graded C, 58/100\n  - [Mistral Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-moderation.md), graded C, 58.4/100\n  - [Mistral OCR API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-ocr.md), graded C, 58.8/100\n  - [Mistral Vibe CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-vibe-cli.md), graded B, 63/100\n  - [Mistral Voxtral Transcribe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-voxtral-transcribe.md), graded B, 64.2/100\n  - [Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602.md), graded C, 60.3/100\n  - Source: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ai-raises-1-7-b-to-accelerate-technological-progress-with-ai/\n- **Nansen**, Series A, June 2021, Series B, December 2021, led a round\n  - [Nansen x402 API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nansen-x402-api.md), graded B, 67.4/100\n  - Source: https://www.nansen.ai/post/nansen-raises-12-million-in-series-a-funding\n- **OpenRouter**, Series B, May 2026\n  - [OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openrouter.md), graded B, 68.6/100\n  - Source: https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/series-b/\n- **Optimizely**\n  - [Optimizely Experimentation](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/optimizely.md), graded B, 62.6/100\n  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/03/episerver-acquires-optimizely/\n- **Orbits / Nemus AI, Inc.**, Pre-seed, September 2026, through a16z Speedrun\n  - [Orbits](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orbits.md), graded F, 16/100\n  - Source: https://tryorbits.com/press/orbits-raises-pre-seed-round-ai-home-manager\n- **High Agency, Inc.**, Cohort 005, through a16z speedrun\n  - [pen.dev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pen-dev.md), graded D, 47.8/100\n  - Source: https://speedrun.a16z.com/companies/pendev\n- **Pinecone**, Series B, April 2023, led a round\n  - [Pinecone API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pinecone.md), graded BB, 77.2/100\n  - Source: https://www.pinecone.io/newsroom/pinecone-raises-usd100m-in-series-b-funding-to-provide-long-term-memory-for-ai/\n- **PlanetScale**, Series C, November 2021, through a16z\n  - [PlanetScale MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/planetscale-mcp.md), graded B, 66.6/100\n  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/16/planetscale-raises-50m-series-c-as-its-enterprise-database-service-hits-general-availability/\n- **Plivo**\n  - [Plivo API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plivo.md), graded C, 60.4/100\n  - [Plivo Voice API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plivo-voice.md), graded C, 60.5/100\n  - Source: https://www.plivo.com/about/\n- **Pylon**, Series A, August 2024, led a round\n  - [Pylon API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pylon.md), graded C, 54.3/100\n  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/28/pylon-lands-17m-investment-to-build-a-full-service-b2b-customer-service-platform/\n- **Reducto**, Series B, October 2025, led a round, through a16z\n  - [Reducto API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reducto.md), graded B, 63.1/100\n  - Source: https://reducto.ai/blog/reducto-series-b-funding\n- **Replicate**, Series B, December 2023, led a round, through a16z\n  - [Replicate Deployments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-deploy.md), graded B, 63.7/100\n  - Source: https://replicate.com/blog/series-b\n- **Replicate (Cloudflare)**, Series A, February 2023, Series B, December 2023, led a round\n  - [Replicate image models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-image.md), graded D, 50.3/100\n  - [MusicGen on Replicate](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-musicgen.md), graded C, 54.4/100\n  - [Replicate video models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-video.md), graded B, 62.2/100\n  - Source: https://replicate.com/blog/series-b\n- **Resend**, Series A, December 2024, led a round\n  - [Resend API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/resend.md), graded BB, 77.1/100\n  - Source: https://resend.com/blog/series-a\n- **Rutter**, Series A, March 2022, led a round\n  - [Rutter Accounting API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rutter.md), graded C, 55.6/100\n  - Source: https://www.rutter.com/blog/series-a\n- **Skyfire**, CSX Fall 2024 cohort, through a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator\n  - [Skyfire API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skyfire.md), graded E, 40.6/100\n  - Source: https://silicon.co.uk/press-release/ai-agents-race-to-join-skyfire-payments-network\n- **Sourcegraph, Inc.**\n  - [Sourcegraph MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sourcegraph-mcp.md), graded C, 57.5/100\n  - Source: https://sourcegraph.com/about\n- **Fly.io**, Funding, July 2022, through A16Z\n  - [Sprites](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprites.md), graded C, 58.6/100\n  - Source: https://fly.io/blog/we-raised-a-bunch-of-money/\n- **Stripe**, Funding round, September 2019, Series I, March 2023\n  - [Stripe API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/stripe-mcp.md), graded A, 82.9/100\n  - Source: https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/stripe-series-i-employee-liquidity\n- **Svix Inc.**, Funding round, February 2023, led a round\n  - [Svix](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/svix.md), graded BB, 74/100\n  - Source: https://www.svix.com/blog/new-round-of-funding-led-by-a16z/\n- **Temporal Technologies**, Series D, February 2026, Series E, September 2026, led a round\n  - [Temporal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/temporal.md), graded A, 78.3/100\n  - Source: https://temporal.io/news/temporal-raises-300M-to-make-agentic-ai-real-for-companies\n- **Tigris Data**, Series A, October 2025\n  - [Tigris](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tigris.md), graded E, 44.7/100\n  - Source: https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/series-a/\n- **Town.com, Inc.**, Series A, June 2026, Series B, October 2026, led a round, through a16z\n  - [Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md), graded D, 48.8/100\n  - Source: https://www.town.com/press/series-a\n- **Conway Research (maker of Underdog)**, First round, April 2026\n  - [Underdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/underdog.md), graded F, 30.1/100\n  - Source: https://underdog.ai/backers\n- **Conway Research**, First round, April 2026\n  - [Underdog Bark 3.0](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/underdog-bark-3.md), graded D, 48.2/100\n  - Source: https://underdog.ai/backers\n- **ZeroEntropy (acquired by Notion)**, Seed, July 2025, through a16z Scout\n  - [ZeroEntropy zerank and zembed](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zeroentropy.md), graded F, 14.3/100\n  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/moroccan-founder-raises-4-2m-for-her-yc-backed-startup-building-the-next-layer-of-ai-search/\n- **Zus Health, Inc.**, Series A, June 2021, $40M round, March 2023, led a round, through Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)\n  - [Zus Health](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zus-health.md), graded C, 56.6/100\n  - Source: https://www.goodwinlaw.com/en/news-and-events/news/2021/06/06_17-zus-health-completes-34-million-series-a\n\n## Where they invest\n\n- Image generation, 4\n- Speech-to-text, 4\n- Personal assistants, 3\n- Agent harnesses, 3\n- Music generation, 3\n- Video generation, 3\n- Payment \u0026 monetisation platforms, 3\n- Code \u0026 developer platforms, 2\n- Event delivery \u0026 webhooks, 2\n- Retrieval \u0026 vector search, 2\n- Local AI, 2\n- Open-weight models, 2\n- Human approval \u0026 handoff, 2\n- Model APIs \u0026 inference, 2\n- Embeddings \u0026 rerankers, 2\n- Document parsing \u0026 extraction, 2\n- Databases \u0026 files, 2\n- Pay-per-call protocols, 1\n- Commerce \u0026 checkout, 1\n- Agent observability \u0026 evals, 1\n- Lead \u0026 company data, 1\n- Project \u0026 task management, 1\n- Identity \u0026 business verification, 1\n- Agent frameworks \u0026 SDKs, 1\n- HR \u0026 employee operations, 1\n- Conversational voice agents, 1\n- Text-to-speech, 1\n- Voice cloning \u0026 custom voices, 1\n- Web search APIs, 1\n- Fine-tuning, 1\n- Agent auth \u0026 delegated access, 1\n- Spend management \u0026 procurement, 1\n- Guardrails \u0026 safety filters, 1\n- Product analytics \u0026 experimentation, 1\n- Design workspaces \u0026 canvases, 1\n- Messaging APIs, 1\n- Phone calling \u0026 voice transport, 1\n- Customer support \u0026 helpdesk, 1\n- GPU \u0026 serverless compute, 1\n- Email delivery APIs, 1\n- Accounting \u0026 invoicing, 1\n- Code execution sandboxes, 1\n- File storage \u0026 sharing, 1\n- Health records \u0026 wellness data, 1\n\n## Founders they backed\n\n- [Sam Ragsdale](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sam-ragsdale/), Merit Systems, Inc.\n- [Ryan Sproule](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ryan-sproule/), Merit Systems, Inc.\n- [Mason Hall](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mason-hall/), Merit Systems, Inc.\n- [Enes Akar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/enes-akar/), Upstash\n- [Mehmet Dogan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mehmet-dogan/), Upstash\n- [Bilal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/bilal/), Upstash\n- [Michael Truell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/michael-truell/), Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary\n- [Sualeh Asif](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sualeh-asif/), Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary\n- [Aman Sanger](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aman-sanger/), Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary\n- [Arvid Lunnemark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/arvid-lunnemark/), Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary\n- [Alex Bouaziz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alex-bouaziz/), Deel, Inc.\n- [Shuo Wang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shuo-wang/), Deel, Inc.\n- [Scott Wu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/scott-wu/), Cognition AI, Inc.\n- [Steven Hao](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/steven-hao/), Cognition AI, Inc.\n- [Walden Yan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/walden-yan/), Cognition AI, Inc.\n- [Mati Staniszewski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mati-staniszewski/), ElevenLabs\n- [Piotr Dąbkowski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/piotr-dabkowski/), ElevenLabs\n- [William Bryk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/william-bryk/), Exa\n- [Jeffrey Wang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jeffrey-wang/), Exa\n- [Burkay Gur](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/burkay-gur/), fal (Features \u0026 Labels, Inc.)\n- [Gorkem Yurtseven](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/gorkem-yurtseven/), fal (Features \u0026 Labels, Inc.)\n- [Zain Javaid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zain-javaid/), Ghost (ZMJ, Inc.)\n- [Mohammad Norouzi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mohammad-norouzi/), Ideogram\n- [William Chan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/william-chan/), Ideogram\n- [Chitwan Saharia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chitwan-saharia/), Ideogram\n- [Jonathan Ho](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jonathan-ho/), Ideogram\n- [Mira Murati](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mira-murati/), Thinking Machines Lab\n- [John Schulman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-schulman-2/), Thinking Machines Lab\n- [Ian Livingstone](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ian-livingstone/), Keycard Labs\n- [Jared Hanson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jared-hanson/), Keycard Labs\n- [Matthew Creager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/matthew-creager/), Keycard Labs\n- [Amit Jain](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/amit-jain/), Luma AI\n- [Alex Yu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alex-yu/), Luma AI\n- [Alberto Taiuti](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alberto-taiuti/), Luma AI\n- [Scott Woody](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/scott-woody/), Metronome (Stripe)\n- [Kevin Liu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/kevin-liu/), Metronome (Stripe)\n- [Arthur Mensch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/arthur-mensch/), Mistral AI\n- [Guillaume Lample](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/guillaume-lample/), Mistral AI\n- [Timothee Lacroix](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/timothee-lacroix/), Mistral AI\n- [Alex Svanevik](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alex-svanevik/), Nansen\n- [Lars Bakke Krogvig](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/lars-bakke-krogvig/), Nansen\n- [Evgeny Medvedev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/evgeny-medvedev/), Nansen\n- [Alex Atallah](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alex-atallah/), OpenRouter\n- [Chris Clark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chris-clark/), OpenRouter\n- [Louis Vichy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/louis-vichy/), OpenRouter\n- [Pete Koomen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pete-koomen/), Optimizely\n- [Nomaan Ahmed](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/nomaan-ahmed/), Orbits / Nemus AI, Inc.\n- [Erik Tillberg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/erik-tillberg/), Orbits / Nemus AI, Inc.\n- [Tom Krcha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tom-krcha/), High Agency, Inc.\n- [Edo Liberty](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/edo-liberty/), Pinecone\n- [Venky B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/venky-b/), Plivo\n- [Michael Ricordeau](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/michael-ricordeau/), Plivo\n- [Raunak Chowdhuri](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/raunak-chowdhuri/), Reducto\n- [Adit Abraham](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/adit-abraham/), Reducto\n- [Ben Firshman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ben-firshman/), Replicate, Replicate (Cloudflare)\n- [Andreas Jansson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andreas-jansson/), Replicate, Replicate (Cloudflare)\n- [Zeno Rocha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zeno-rocha/), Resend\n- [Bu Kinoshita](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/bu-kinoshita/), Resend\n- [Eric Yu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/eric-yu/), Rutter\n- [Peter Zhou](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/peter-zhou/), Rutter\n- [Amir Sarhangi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/amir-sarhangi/), Skyfire\n- [Craig DeWitt](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/craig-dewitt/), Skyfire\n- [Michael Dwan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/michael-dwan/), Fly.io\n- [Jerome Gravel-Niquet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jerome-gravel-niquet/), Fly.io\n- [Patrick Collison](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/patrick-collison/), OpenAI and Stripe, Stripe, LLC, Stripe\n- [John Collison](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-collison/), OpenAI and Stripe, Stripe, LLC, Stripe\n- [Tom Hacohen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tom-hacohen/), Svix Inc.\n- [Samar Abbas](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/samar-abbas/), Temporal Technologies\n- [Maxim Fateev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/maxim-fateev/), Temporal Technologies\n- [Ovais Tariq](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ovais-tariq/), Tigris Data\n- [Himank Chaudhary](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/himank-chaudhary/), Tigris Data\n- [Yevgeniy Firsov](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/yevgeniy-firsov/), Tigris Data\n- [Jean-Denis Greze](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jean-denis-greze/), Town.com, Inc.\n- [Tony Vincent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tony-vincent/), Town.com, Inc.\n- [Sigil Wen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sigil-wen/), Conway Research (maker of Underdog), Conway Research\n- [Ghita Houir Alami](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ghita-houir-alami/), ZeroEntropy (acquired by Notion)\n- [Nicholas Pipitone](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/nicholas-pipitone/), ZeroEntropy (acquired by Notion)\n- [Jonathan Bush](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jonathan-bush/), Zus Health, Inc.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which AI tools has Andreessen Horowitz invested in?\n\nAnchor 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 \u0026 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.\n\n### How are Andreessen Horowitz's companies graded?\n\nOn 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).\n\nInvestors 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. 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