# Ev Williams (slim)

> Ev Williams's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, LiveKit Incorporated and Sanity US Inc. and Sanity AS, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ev-williams/index.md (~650 tokens) · this version ~530 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ev-williams/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ev-williams/
- 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

- **LiveKit Incorporated**
  - [LiveKit Agents](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/livekit-agents.md), graded BB, 72.5/100
  - [LiveKit Telephony](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/livekit-telephony.md), graded B, 67.6/100
  - Source: https://livekit.com/about
- **Sanity US Inc. and Sanity AS**, Series A, October 2020
  - [Sanity](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sanity.md), graded BB, 73.7/100
  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/24/sanity-raises-39m-for-its-use-anywhere-approach-to-content-repositories/

## Where they invest

- Conversational voice agents, 1
- Phone calling & voice transport, 1
- CMS & website publishing, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Russ d’Sa](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/russ-d-sa/), LiveKit Incorporated
- [David Zhao](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/david-zhao/), LiveKit Incorporated
- [Magnus Hillestad](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/magnus-hillestad/), Sanity US Inc. and Sanity AS
- [Simen Svale Skogsrud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/simen-svale-skogsrud/), Sanity US Inc. and Sanity AS
- [Even Westvang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/even-westvang/), Sanity US Inc. and Sanity AS

## Questions

### Which AI tools has Ev Williams invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists LiveKit Incorporated and Sanity US Inc.

### How are Ev Williams's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, LiveKit Agents (BB, 72.5), LiveKit Telephony (B, 67.6) and Sanity (BB, 73.7).

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.