# Gordon Paddison

> Gordon Paddison's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Buffer, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gordon-paddison/
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gordon-paddison/index.md (~450 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gordon-paddison/index.min.md (~330 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gordon-paddison/index.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key)
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)
- Updated: 2026-10-28

Angel investor.

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Buffer**, Seed, December 2011, valued at $60M post-money, Series A, October 2014
  - [Buffer API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/buffer.md), graded B, 62/100
  - Source: https://buffer.com/resources/the-17-awesome-investors-in-our-400000-seed-round-and-how-we-met-them/

## Where they invest

- Social media posting APIs, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Joel Gascoigne](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/joel-gascoigne/), Buffer
- [Leo Widrich](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/leo-widrich/), Buffer

## Questions

### Which AI tools has Gordon Paddison invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Buffer backed by Gordon Paddison.

### How are Gordon Paddison's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Buffer API + MCP (B, 62).

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. An investor isn't a sign of quality, and nobody can pay to be listed or to change a grade. To correct something or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.

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