Venture firm in listed AI tools
BlackRock
BlackRock has backed 10 companies behind 14 listings on Anchor Terminal.
Companies on Anchor Terminal
Anthropic Series F, September 2025, Series G, February 2026, through affiliated funds of BlackRock
- Claude API BB · Model APIs & inference
- Claude Agent SDK BB · Agent frameworks & SDKs
- Claude Code C · Agent harnesses
Source anthropic.com/news/…
Anthropic, PBC Series F, September 2025, Series G, February 2026, through affiliated funds of BlackRock
Source anthropic.com/news/…
Superhuman Platform Inc. $200M+ round, November 2021
Source grammarly.com/blog/company/…
Deepgram Series C, January 2026
- Deepgram Speech-to-Text (Nova-3, Flux) BB · Speech-to-text
- Deepgram Text-to-Speech (Aura-2, Flux TTS) BB · Text-to-speech
- Deepgram Voice Agent API B · Conversational voice agents
Source deepgram.com/learn/…
GoCardless Series G, February 2022, through BlackRock Private Equity Partners
Source gocardless.com/blog/…
Contentsquare (Content Square, Inc.) Series E, May 2021, Series F, July 2022
Source contentsquare.com/press/…
Odoo SA €500M secondary, November 2024
Source summitpartners.com/news/…
Plaid Funding and tender offer, April 2025
Source fortune.com/2025/04/03/…
Plaid Inc. Funding and tender offer, April 2025
Source fortune.com/2025/04/03/…
SambaNova Systems, Inc. Series F, July 2026
Source sambanova.ai/press/…
Where they invest
Model APIs & inference 2 Bank data & open banking 2 Agent frameworks & SDKs 1 Agent harnesses 1 Personal assistants 1 Spreadsheets & operational tables 1 Speech-to-text 1 Text-to-speech 1 Conversational voice agents 1 Product analytics & experimentation 1 Accounting & invoicing 1 Identity & business verification 1
Founders they backed
- Dario Amodei Anthropic
- Daniela Amodei Anthropic
- Tom Brown Anthropic
- Jack Clark Anthropic
- Jared Kaplan Anthropic
- Sam McCandlish Anthropic
- Chris Olah Anthropic
- Karan Ahuja Anthropic, PBC
- Scott Stephenson Deepgram
- Rolands Mesters GoCardless
- Roberts Bernans GoCardless
- Hiroki Takeuchi GoCardless
- Tom Blomfield GoCardless
- Zach Perret Plaid
- William Hockey Plaid
- Rodrigo Liang SambaNova Systems, Inc.
- Kunle Olukotun SambaNova Systems, Inc.
- Christopher Ré SambaNova Systems, Inc.
Questions
Which AI tools has BlackRock invested in?
Anchor Terminal lists Anthropic, Anthropic, PBC, Superhuman Platform Inc., Deepgram, GoCardless, Contentsquare (Content Square, Inc.), Odoo SA, Plaid, Plaid Inc. and SambaNova Systems, Inc. backed by BlackRock.
How are BlackRock's companies graded?
On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Claude API (BB, 77.3), Claude Agent SDK (BB, 70.1), Claude Code (C, 59.9), Claude Duet (F, 17.9), Coda (Superhuman Docs) (B, 64.8), Deepgram Speech-to-Text (Nova-3, Flux) (BB, 70.4), Deepgram Text-to-Speech (Aura-2, Flux TTS) (BB, 72.8), Deepgram Voice Agent API (B, 68.2), GoCardless Bank Account Data (E, 41.8), Heap (D, 53.1), Odoo External API (C, 55.9), Plaid (B, 69.8), Plaid Identity Verification (B, 67.1) and SambaCloud (B, 66.5).
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