# Jim McClave (slim)

> Jim McClave's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Anthropic and Anthropic, PBC, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jim-mcclave/index.md (~700 tokens) · this version ~580 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jim-mcclave/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jim-mcclave/
- 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

- **Anthropic**, Series B, April 2022
  - [Claude API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anthropic-api.md), graded BB, 77.3/100
  - [Claude Agent SDK](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-agent-sdk.md), graded BB, 70.1/100
  - [Claude Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-code.md), graded C, 59.9/100
  - Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-b-to-build-safe-reliable-ai
- **Anthropic, PBC**, Series B, April 2022
  - [Claude Duet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-duet.md), graded F, 17.9/100
  - Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-b-to-build-safe-reliable-ai

## Where they invest

- Model APIs & inference, 1
- Agent frameworks & SDKs, 1
- Agent harnesses, 1
- Personal assistants, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Dario Amodei](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/dario-amodei/), Anthropic
- [Daniela Amodei](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/daniela-amodei/), Anthropic
- [Tom Brown](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tom-brown/), Anthropic
- [Jack Clark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jack-clark/), Anthropic
- [Jared Kaplan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jared-kaplan/), Anthropic
- [Sam McCandlish](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sam-mccandlish/), Anthropic
- [Chris Olah](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chris-olah/), Anthropic
- [Karan Ahuja](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/karan-ahuja/), Anthropic, PBC

## Questions

### Which AI tools has Jim McClave invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Anthropic and Anthropic, PBC backed by Jim McClave.

### How are Jim McClave's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Claude API (BB, 77.3), Claude Agent SDK (BB, 70.1), Claude Code (C, 59.9) and Claude Duet (F, 17.9).

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.