# D. E. Shaw Ventures (slim)

> D. E. Shaw Ventures's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Anthropic, Anthropic, PBC, ClickHouse and ElevenLabs, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/d-e-shaw-ventures/index.md (~1,250 tokens) · this version ~1,130 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/d-e-shaw-ventures/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/d-e-shaw-ventures/
- 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.deshaw.com

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Anthropic**, Series G, February 2026, Series H, May 2026, led a round
  - [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-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-money-valuation
- **Anthropic, PBC**, Series G, February 2026, Series H, May 2026, led a round
  - [Claude Duet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-duet.md), graded F, 17.9/100
  - Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-money-valuation
- **ClickHouse**, 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-extends-series-c-financing-expands-leadership-team
- **ElevenLabs**, Employee tender offer, September 2026, through D.E. Shaw
  - [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/tender-22bn

## 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](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
- [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
- [Mati Staniszewski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mati-staniszewski/), ElevenLabs
- [Piotr Dąbkowski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/piotr-dabkowski/), ElevenLabs

## Questions

### Which AI tools has D. E. Shaw Ventures invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Anthropic, Anthropic, PBC, ClickHouse and ElevenLabs backed by D.

### 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).

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.