# Disruptive (slim)

> Disruptive's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, ElevenLabs, Groq and Reflection, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/disruptive/index.md (~900 tokens) · this version ~780 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/disruptive/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/disruptive/
- 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)

Venture firm.

Website: https://www.disruptive.com

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **ElevenLabs**, Employee tender offer, September 2026, through DISRUPTIVE
  - [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
- **Groq**, Growth, June 2026, Series A, August 2026, led a round
  - [GroqCloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq.md), graded BB, 74.5/100
  - [Groq Speech-to-Text](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq-speech-to-text.md), graded BB, 71.8/100
  - Source: https://groq.com/newsroom/groq-raises-usd650m-to-scale-its-ai-inference-cloud-business
- **Reflection**
  - [Beam 1.0](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reflection-beam.md), graded D, 53.4/100
  - [Mirror CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reflection-mirror.md), graded C, 54.3/100
  - Source: https://reflection.ai/blog/building-frontier-open-intelligencence

## Where they invest

- Speech-to-text, 2
- Model APIs & inference, 2
- Conversational voice agents, 1
- Music generation, 1
- Text-to-speech, 1
- Voice cloning & custom voices, 1
- Agent harnesses, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Mati Staniszewski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mati-staniszewski/), ElevenLabs
- [Piotr Dąbkowski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/piotr-dabkowski/), ElevenLabs
- [Jonathan Ross](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jonathan-ross/), Groq
- [Douglas Wightman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/douglas-wightman/), Groq

## Questions

### Which AI tools has Disruptive invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists ElevenLabs, Groq and Reflection backed by Disruptive.

### How are Disruptive's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, 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), ElevenLabs Voice Cloning and Voice Design API (BB, 74.8), GroqCloud (BB, 74.5), Groq Speech-to-Text (BB, 71.8), Beam 1.0 (D, 53.4) and Mirror CLI (C, 54.3).

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.