# EQT (slim)

> EQT's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, ElevenLabs, Hume AI, Agent Paid Limited and Fly.io, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/eqt/index.md (~1,050 tokens) · this version ~930 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/eqt/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/eqt/
- 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)

Investor.

Website: https://eqtgroup.com

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **ElevenLabs**, Employee tender offer, September 2026
  - [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
- **Hume AI**, Series B, March 2024, led a round, through EQT Ventures
  - [Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hume-evi.md), graded C, 56.7/100
  - [Hume Octave Voice Design and Cloning + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hume-voice-cloning.md), graded C, 54.6/100
  - Source: https://siliconangle.com/2024/03/27/hume-ai-raises-50m-building-realistic-generative-ai-chat-experience-yet/
- **Agent Paid Limited**, €10M round, March 2025, Seed, September 2025, led a round, through EQT Ventures
  - [Paid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paid.md), graded C, 55.1/100
  - Source: https://paid.ai/blog/paid-raises-10m-to-build-the-business
- **Fly.io**, Funding, 2023, led a round, through EQT Ventures
  - [Sprites](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprites.md), graded C, 58.6/100
  - Source: https://fly.io/blog/we-raised-a-bunch-of-money/

## Where they invest

- Conversational voice agents, 2
- Voice cloning & custom voices, 2
- Music generation, 1
- Speech-to-text, 1
- Text-to-speech, 1
- Payment & monetisation platforms, 1
- Code execution sandboxes, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Mati Staniszewski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mati-staniszewski/), ElevenLabs
- [Piotr Dąbkowski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/piotr-dabkowski/), ElevenLabs
- [Manny Medina](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/manny-medina/), Agent Paid Limited
- [Manoj Ganapathy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/manoj-ganapathy/), Agent Paid Limited
- [Raj Dosanjh](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/raj-dosanjh/), Agent Paid Limited
- [Michael Dwan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/michael-dwan/), Fly.io
- [Jerome Gravel-Niquet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jerome-gravel-niquet/), Fly.io

## Questions

### Which AI tools has EQT invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists ElevenLabs, Hume AI, Agent Paid Limited and Fly.io backed by EQT.

### How are EQT'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), Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) (C, 56.7), Hume Octave Voice Design and Cloning + MCP (C, 54.6), Paid (C, 55.1) and Sprites (C, 58.6).

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.