# Conviction (slim)

> Conviction's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Baseten, humans& ai, inc., Cartesia, HeyGen and 2 more, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/conviction/index.md (~1,250 tokens) · this version ~1,130 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/conviction/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/conviction/
- 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.conviction.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/
- **humans& ai, inc.**, Seed, 2026
  - [Boba](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba.md), graded F, 10.7/100
  - Source: https://humansand.ai/
- **Cartesia**, Seed, December 2024
  - [Cartesia Ink](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cartesia-ink-stt.md), graded B, 68/100
  - [Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cartesia-tts.md), graded B, 64/100
  - [Cartesia Voice Cloning API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cartesia-voice-cloning.md), graded C, 59.7/100
  - Source: https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/seed
- **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/
- **Town.com, Inc.**, Series A, June 2026
  - [Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md), graded D, 48.8/100
  - Source: https://www.town.com/press/series-a
- **Voyage AI (MongoDB)**, Series A, October 2024
  - [Voyage AI embeddings and rerankers](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/voyage-ai.md), graded C, 58.8/100
  - Source: https://blog.voyageai.com/2024/10/03/series-a-funding/

## 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](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
- [Eric Zelikman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/eric-zelikman/), humans& ai, inc.
- [Georges Harik](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/georges-harik/), humans& ai, inc.
- [Noah D. Goodman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/noah-d-goodman/), humans& ai, inc.
- [Yuchen He](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/yuchen-he/), humans& ai, inc.
- [Andi Peng](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andi-peng/), humans& ai, inc.
- [Karan Goel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/karan-goel/), Cartesia
- [Albert Gu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/albert-gu/), Cartesia
- [Arjun Desai](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/arjun-desai/), Cartesia
- [Brandon Yang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brandon-yang/), Cartesia
- [Joshua Xu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/joshua-xu/), HeyGen
- [Wayne L.](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/wayne-l/), HeyGen
- [Jean-Denis Greze](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jean-denis-greze/), Town.com, Inc.
- [Tony Vincent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/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.

### 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).

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.