# BlackRock (slim)

> BlackRock's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Anthropic, Anthropic, PBC, Superhuman Platform Inc., Deepgram and 6 more, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/blackrock/index.md (~1,750 tokens) · this version ~1,630 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/blackrock/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/blackrock/
- 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
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Venture firm.

Website: https://www.blackrock.com

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Anthropic**, Series F, September 2025, Series G, February 2026, through affiliated funds of BlackRock
  - [Claude API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anthropic-api.md), graded BB, 77.3/100
  - [Claude Agent SDK](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-agent-sdk.md), graded BB, 70.1/100
  - [Claude Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-code.md), graded C, 59.9/100
  - Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-f-at-usd183b-post-money-valuation
- **Anthropic, PBC**, Series F, September 2025, Series G, February 2026, through affiliated funds of BlackRock
  - [Claude Duet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-duet.md), graded F, 17.9/100
  - Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-f-at-usd183b-post-money-valuation
- **Superhuman Platform Inc.**, $200M+ round, November 2021
  - [Coda (Superhuman Docs)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coda.md), graded B, 64.8/100
  - Source: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/company/third-funding-round/
- **Deepgram**, Series C, January 2026
  - [Deepgram Speech-to-Text (Nova-3, Flux)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepgram-stt.md), graded BB, 70.4/100
  - [Deepgram Text-to-Speech (Aura-2, Flux TTS)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepgram-tts.md), graded BB, 72.8/100
  - [Deepgram Voice Agent API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepgram-voice-agent.md), graded B, 68.2/100
  - Source: https://deepgram.com/learn/press-release-deepgram-raises-series-c
- **GoCardless**, Series G, February 2022, through BlackRock Private Equity Partners
  - [GoCardless Bank Account Data](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gocardless-bank-account-data.md), graded E, 41.8/100
  - Source: https://gocardless.com/blog/312m-series-g-funding-round
- **Contentsquare (Content Square, Inc.)**, Series E, May 2021, Series F, July 2022
  - [Heap](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/heap.md), graded D, 53.1/100
  - Source: https://contentsquare.com/press/contentsquare-500m-series-e-investment/
- **Odoo SA**, €500M secondary, November 2024
  - [Odoo External API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/odoo.md), graded C, 55.9/100
  - Source: https://www.summitpartners.com/news/odoo-announces-a-500-million-transaction-increasing-the-belgian-unicorns-valuation-to-5-billion
- **Plaid**, Funding and tender offer, April 2025
  - [Plaid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plaid.md), graded B, 69.8/100
  - Source: https://www.fortune.com/2025/04/03/fintech-plaid-funding-round-fidelity-blackrock-franklin-templeton-nea-perret
- **Plaid Inc.**, Funding and tender offer, April 2025
  - [Plaid Identity Verification](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plaid-identity-verification.md), graded B, 67.1/100
  - Source: https://www.fortune.com/2025/04/03/fintech-plaid-funding-round-fidelity-blackrock-franklin-templeton-nea-perret
- **SambaNova Systems, Inc.**, Series F, July 2026
  - [SambaCloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sambanova.md), graded B, 66.5/100
  - Source: https://sambanova.ai/press/sambanova-completes-first-close-of-1b-financing-at-11b-valuation

## 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](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/dario-amodei/), Anthropic
- [Daniela Amodei](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/daniela-amodei/), Anthropic
- [Tom Brown](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tom-brown/), Anthropic
- [Jack Clark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jack-clark/), Anthropic
- [Jared Kaplan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jared-kaplan/), Anthropic
- [Sam McCandlish](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sam-mccandlish/), Anthropic
- [Chris Olah](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chris-olah/), Anthropic
- [Karan Ahuja](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/karan-ahuja/), Anthropic, PBC
- [Scott Stephenson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/scott-stephenson/), Deepgram
- [Rolands Mesters](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/rolands-mesters/), GoCardless
- [Roberts Bernans](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/roberts-bernans/), GoCardless
- [Hiroki Takeuchi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/hiroki-takeuchi/), GoCardless
- [Tom Blomfield](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tom-blomfield/), GoCardless
- [Zach Perret](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zach-perret/), Plaid
- [William Hockey](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/william-hockey/), Plaid
- [Rodrigo Liang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/rodrigo-liang/), SambaNova Systems, Inc.
- [Kunle Olukotun](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/kunle-olukotun/), SambaNova Systems, Inc.
- [Christopher Ré](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/christopher-re/), 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.

### 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).

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.