# Grand Ventures (slim)

> Grand Ventures's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Payload CMS, Inc. (Figma), with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/grand-ventures/index.md (~500 tokens) · this version ~380 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/grand-ventures/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/grand-ventures/
- 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
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Venture firm.

Website: https://grandvcp.com

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Payload CMS, Inc. (Figma)**, Seed, November 2022
  - [Payload](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/payload.md), graded C, 55.5/100
  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/15/payload-raises-4-7m-for-its-developer-first-headless-cms/

## Where they invest

- CMS & website publishing, 1

## Founders they backed

- [James Mikrut](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/james-mikrut/), Payload CMS, Inc. (Figma)
- [Elliot DeNolf](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/elliot-denolf/), Payload CMS, Inc. (Figma)
- [Dan Ribbens](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/dan-ribbens/), Payload CMS, Inc. (Figma)

## Questions

### Which AI tools has Grand Ventures invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Payload CMS, Inc.

### How are Grand Ventures's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Payload (C, 55.5).

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.