# Dev Ittycheria (slim)

> Dev Ittycheria's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Baseten, Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc. and Hugging Face, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dev-ittycheria/index.md (~1,050 tokens) · this version ~930 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dev-ittycheria/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dev-ittycheria/
- 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
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

Angel investor.

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Baseten**, Series A, April 2022, valued at $13B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Series F, June 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/announcing-our-series-a/
- **Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine)**, Series B, March 2021, valued at $4.5B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Series D, August 2023
  - [Carbon-X](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.md), graded C, 61/100
  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/11/hugging-face-raises-40-million-for-its-natural-language-processing-library/
- **Hugging Face, Inc.**, Series B, March 2021, valued at $4.5B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Series D, August 2023
  - [Hugging Face Inference Endpoints](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hugging-face-inference-endpoints.md), graded B, 64.7/100
  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/11/hugging-face-raises-40-million-for-its-natural-language-processing-library/
- **Hugging Face**, Series B, March 2021, valued at $4.5B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Series D, August 2023
  - [SmolLM3-3B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smollm3-3b.md), graded C, 61/100
  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/11/hugging-face-raises-40-million-for-its-natural-language-processing-library/

## Where they invest

- GPU & serverless compute, 2
- Decision models, 2
- Open-weight models, 2

## 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
- [Clément Delangue](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/clement-delangue/), Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face
- [Julien Chaumond](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/julien-chaumond/), Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face
- [Thomas Wolf](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/thomas-wolf/), Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face

## Questions

### Which AI tools has Dev Ittycheria invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Baseten, Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc.

### How are Dev Ittycheria's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Baseten (B, 66.7), elephant-1 (D, 47.6), mammoth-1 (D, 47.7), Carbon-X (C, 61), Hugging Face Inference Endpoints (B, 64.7) and SmolLM3-3B (C, 61).

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.