# Pillar VC

> Pillar VC's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Catena Labs, Inc. and All Hands AI, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/pillar-vc/
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/pillar-vc/index.md (~550 tokens)
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- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/pillar-vc/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

Venture firm.

Website: https://www.pillar.vc

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Catena Labs, Inc.**, Seed, May 2025
  - [ACK-Pay (Agent Commerce Kit)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ack-pay.md), graded D, 53.8/100
  - Source: https://catenalabs.com/blog/announcing-catena-labs
- **All Hands AI**, Seed, September 2024, Series A, November 2025
  - [OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openhands.md), graded BB, 71/100
  - Source: https://www.openhands.dev/blog/press-release-all-hands-announces-5m-to-scale-ai-agent-for-software-development

## Where they invest

- Pay-per-call protocols, 1
- Agent harnesses, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Robert Brennan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/robert-brennan/), All Hands AI
- [Xingyao Wang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/xingyao-wang/), All Hands AI

## Questions

### Which AI tools has Pillar VC invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Catena Labs, Inc. and All Hands AI backed by Pillar VC.

### How are Pillar VC's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, ACK-Pay (Agent Commerce Kit) (D, 53.8) and OpenHands (BB, 71).

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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