# Audacious Ventures (slim)

> Audacious Ventures's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Ghost (ZMJ, Inc.) and WorkOS, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/audacious-ventures/index.md (~500 tokens) · this version ~430 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/audacious-ventures/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/audacious-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.

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Ghost (ZMJ, Inc.)**, through Audacious
  - [Core](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ghost-core.md), graded F, 7.6/100
  - Source: https://ghost.ai/about
- **WorkOS**, Series A, announced March 2021, Series C, March 2026
  - [WorkOS Pipes and Agents](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/workos-pipes.md), graded C, 59.9/100
  - Source: https://workos.com/blog/workos-raises-15m-to-build-stripe-for-enterprise-ready-features

## Where they invest

- Local AI, 1
- Agent auth & delegated access, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Zain Javaid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zain-javaid/), Ghost (ZMJ, Inc.)
- [Michael Grinich](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/michael-grinich/), WorkOS

## Questions

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

Anchor Terminal lists Ghost (ZMJ, Inc.) and WorkOS backed by Audacious Ventures.

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

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Core (F, 7.6) and WorkOS Pipes and Agents (C, 59.9).

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.
