# BOND (slim)

> BOND's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Baseten, ClickHouse, Cognition AI, Inc., ElevenLabs and 3 more, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bond/index.md (~1,500 tokens) · this version ~1,380 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bond/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bond/
- 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.bondcap.com

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Baseten**, Series E, January 2026
  - [Baseten](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten.md), graded B, 66.7/100
  - [elephant-1](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elephant-1.md), graded D, 47.6/100
  - [mammoth-1](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mammoth-1.md), graded D, 47.7/100
  - Source: https://www.baseten.co/blog/series-e/
- **ClickHouse**, Series C, May 2025, Series C extension, October 2025
  - [ClickHouse MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clickhouse-mcp-server.md), graded B, 64.6/100
  - Source: https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-raises-350-million-series-c-to-power-analytics-for-ai-era
- **Cognition AI, Inc.**, Series E, September 2026, through Bond Capital
  - [Devin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.md), graded C, 55.7/100
  - Source: https://cognition.com/blog/series-e
- **ElevenLabs**, Series D, February 2026
  - [ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elevenlabs-agents.md), graded BB, 71.4/100
  - [ElevenLabs Music API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elevenlabs-music.md), graded B, 66.9/100
  - [ElevenLabs Scribe Speech to Text API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elevenlabs-scribe.md), graded B, 69/100
  - [ElevenLabs Text to Speech API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elevenlabs-tts.md), graded BB, 75.3/100
  - [ElevenLabs Voice Cloning and Voice Design API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elevenlabs-voice-cloning.md), graded BB, 74.8/100
  - Source: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/series-d
- **HeyGen**, Series A, June 2024
  - [HeyGen Voice](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/heygen-voice.md), graded BB, 71.1/100
  - [HyperFrames](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hyperframes.md), graded E, 39.7/100
  - Source: https://www.maginative.com/article/ai-video-startup-heygen-raises-60-million-valued-at/
- **Persona Identities, Inc.**, Series D, 2025
  - [Persona](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/persona.md), graded B, 69.6/100
  - Source: https://incyber.org/en/article/identity-verification-us-start-up-persona-raises-200-million/
- **Sentry**, through Bond
  - [Sentry MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sentry-mcp.md), graded BB, 70.2/100
  - Source: https://sentry.io/about/

## Where they invest

- Decision models, 2
- Text-to-speech, 2
- GPU & serverless compute, 1
- Databases & files, 1
- Agent harnesses, 1
- Conversational voice agents, 1
- Music generation, 1
- Speech-to-text, 1
- Voice cloning & custom voices, 1
- Video generation, 1
- Identity & business verification, 1
- Observability & incidents, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Tuhin Srivastava](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tuhin-srivastava/), Baseten
- [Amir Haghighat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/amir-haghighat/), Baseten
- [Phil Howes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/phil-howes/), Baseten
- [Pankaj Gupta](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pankaj-gupta/), Baseten
- [Aaron Katz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aaron-katz/), ClickHouse
- [Alexey Milovidov](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alexey-milovidov/), ClickHouse
- [Yury Izrailevsky](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/yury-izrailevsky/), ClickHouse
- [Scott Wu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/scott-wu/), Cognition AI, Inc.
- [Steven Hao](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/steven-hao/), Cognition AI, Inc.
- [Walden Yan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/walden-yan/), Cognition AI, Inc.
- [Mati Staniszewski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mati-staniszewski/), ElevenLabs
- [Piotr Dąbkowski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/piotr-dabkowski/), ElevenLabs
- [Joshua Xu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/joshua-xu/), HeyGen
- [Wayne L.](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/wayne-l/), HeyGen
- [Rick Song](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/rick-song/), Persona Identities, Inc.
- [Charles Yeh](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/charles-yeh/), Persona Identities, Inc.
- [David Cramer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/david-cramer/), Sentry
- [Chris Jennings](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chris-jennings/), Sentry

## Questions

### Which AI tools has BOND invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Baseten, ClickHouse, Cognition AI, Inc., ElevenLabs, HeyGen, Persona Identities, Inc.

### How are BOND's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Baseten (B, 66.7), elephant-1 (D, 47.6), mammoth-1 (D, 47.7), ClickHouse MCP Server (B, 64.6), 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), HeyGen Voice (BB, 71.1), HyperFrames (E, 39.7), Persona (B, 69.6) and Sentry MCP (BB, 70.2).

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.