# Andrej Karpathy (slim)

> Andrej Karpathy's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Lambda, Perplexity and Prime Intellect, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andrej-karpathy/index.md (~750 tokens) · this version ~630 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andrej-karpathy/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andrej-karpathy/
- 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)

Angel investor.

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Lambda**, Series D, February 2025
  - [Lambda Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lambda.md), graded D, 50.1/100
  - Source: https://lambda.ai/blog/lambda-raises-480m-to-expand-ai-cloud-platform
- **Perplexity**, Seed, September 2022
  - [SPACE](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/perplexity-space.md), graded C, 56.4/100
  - [pplx-decider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pplx-decider.md), graded B, 68.2/100
  - [pplx-decider-flash](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pplx-decider-flash.md), graded B, 68/100
  - Source: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/announcing-our-series-a-funding-round-and-mobile-app-launch
- **Prime Intellect**, Seed, February 2025
  - [Prime Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prime-agent.md), graded C, 60.5/100
  - Source: https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/fundraise

## Where they invest

- Decision models, 2
- GPU & serverless compute, 1
- Code execution sandboxes, 1
- Agent harnesses, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Stephen Balaban](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/stephen-balaban/), Lambda
- [Michael Balaban](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/michael-balaban/), Lambda
- [Aravind Srinivas](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aravind-srinivas/), Perplexity
- [Denis Yarats](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/denis-yarats/), Perplexity
- [Johnny Ho](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/johnny-ho/), Perplexity
- [Andy Konwinski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andy-konwinski/), Perplexity

## Questions

### Which AI tools has Andrej Karpathy invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Lambda, Perplexity and Prime Intellect backed by Andrej Karpathy.

### How are Andrej Karpathy's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Lambda Cloud (D, 50.1), SPACE (C, 56.4), pplx-decider (B, 68.2), pplx-decider-flash (B, 68) and Prime Agent (C, 60.5).

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.