Venture firm in listed AI tools
D. E. Shaw Ventures
D. E. Shaw Ventures has backed 4 companies behind 10 listings on Anchor Terminal.
Companies on Anchor Terminal
Anthropic Series G, February 2026, Series H, May 2026, led a round
- 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 G, February 2026, Series H, May 2026, led a round
Source anthropic.com/news/…
ClickHouse Series C extension, October 2025
Source clickhouse.com/blog/…
ElevenLabs Employee tender offer, September 2026, through D.E. Shaw
Where they invest
Model APIs & inference 1 Agent frameworks & SDKs 1 Agent harnesses 1 Personal assistants 1 Databases & files 1 Conversational voice agents 1 Music generation 1 Speech-to-text 1 Text-to-speech 1 Voice cloning & custom voices 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
- Aaron Katz ClickHouse
- Alexey Milovidov ClickHouse
- Yury Izrailevsky ClickHouse
- Mati Staniszewski ElevenLabs
- Piotr Dąbkowski ElevenLabs
Questions
Which AI tools has D. E. Shaw Ventures invested in?
Anchor Terminal lists Anthropic, Anthropic, PBC, ClickHouse and ElevenLabs backed by D. E. Shaw Ventures.
How are D. E. Shaw Ventures'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), ClickHouse MCP Server (B, 64.6), 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) and ElevenLabs Voice Cloning and Voice Design API (BB, 74.8).
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