Venture firm in listed AI tools
Conviction
Conviction has backed 6 companies behind 11 listings on Anchor Terminal.
Companies on Anchor Terminal
Baseten Series E, January 2026
Source baseten.co/blog/series-e
humans& ai, inc. Seed, 2026
Source humansand.ai
Cartesia Seed, December 2024
- Cartesia Ink B · Speech-to-text
- Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP B · Text-to-speech
- Cartesia Voice Cloning API + MCP C · Voice cloning & custom voices
Source cartesia.ai/blog/seed
HeyGen Series A, June 2024
Source maginative.com/article/…
Town.com, Inc. Series A, June 2026
Source town.com/press/series-a
Voyage AI (MongoDB) Series A, October 2024
Where they invest
Decision models 2 Personal assistants 2 Text-to-speech 2 GPU & serverless compute 1 Speech-to-text 1 Voice cloning & custom voices 1 Video generation 1 Embeddings & rerankers 1
Founders they backed
- Tuhin Srivastava Baseten
- Amir Haghighat Baseten
- Phil Howes Baseten
- Pankaj Gupta Baseten
- Eric Zelikman humans& ai, inc.
- Georges Harik humans& ai, inc.
- Noah D. Goodman humans& ai, inc.
- Yuchen He humans& ai, inc.
- Andi Peng humans& ai, inc.
- Karan Goel Cartesia
- Albert Gu Cartesia
- Arjun Desai Cartesia
- Brandon Yang Cartesia
- Joshua Xu HeyGen
- Wayne L. HeyGen
- Jean-Denis Greze Town.com, Inc.
- Tony Vincent Town.com, Inc.
Questions
Which AI tools has Conviction invested in?
Anchor Terminal lists Baseten, humans& ai, inc., Cartesia, HeyGen, Town.com, Inc. and Voyage AI (MongoDB) backed by Conviction.
How are Conviction's companies graded?
On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Baseten (B, 66.7), elephant-1 (D, 47.6), mammoth-1 (D, 47.7), Boba (F, 10.7), Cartesia Ink (B, 68), Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP (B, 64), Cartesia Voice Cloning API + MCP (C, 59.7), HeyGen Voice (BB, 71.1), HyperFrames (E, 39.7), Town (D, 48.8) and Voyage AI embeddings and rerankers (C, 58.8).
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