Venture firm in listed AI tools
Smash Capital
Smash Capital has backed 4 companies behind 8 listings on Anchor Terminal.
Companies on Anchor Terminal
ElevenLabs Series C, January 2025, Series D, February 2026
- ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP BB · Conversational voice agents
- ElevenLabs Music API B · Music generation
- ElevenLabs Scribe Speech to Text API B · Speech-to-text
- ElevenLabs Text to Speech API + MCP BB · Text-to-speech
- ElevenLabs Voice Cloning and Voice Design API BB · Voice cloning & custom voices
Source elevenlabs.io/blog/series-d
Firecrawl (Mendable) Series B, September 2026, led a round
Source firecrawl.dev/blog/…
Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary)
Source techcrunch.com/2024/07/29/…
Read AI, Inc. Series B, October 2024, led a round
Source techcrunch.com/2024/10/28/…
Where they invest
Conversational voice agents 1 Music generation 1 Speech-to-text 1 Text-to-speech 1 Voice cloning & custom voices 1 Web scraping & crawling 1 Image generation 1 Meeting capture & meeting infrastructure 1
Founders they backed
- Mati Staniszewski ElevenLabs
- Piotr Dąbkowski ElevenLabs
- Caleb Peffer Firecrawl (Mendable)
- Eric Ciarla Firecrawl (Mendable)
- Nicolas Silberstein Camara Firecrawl (Mendable)
- JJ Fiasson Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary)
- Peter Runham Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary)
- Jachin Bhasme Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary)
- Sami Ede Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary)
- Chris Gillis Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary)
- Ethan Smith Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary)
- David Shim Read AI, Inc.
- Robert Williams Read AI, Inc.
- Elliott Waldron Read AI, Inc.
Questions
Which AI tools has Smash Capital invested in?
Anchor Terminal lists ElevenLabs, Firecrawl (Mendable), Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary) and Read AI, Inc. backed by Smash Capital.
How are Smash Capital's companies graded?
On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP (BB, 71.4), ElevenLabs Music API (B, 66.9), ElevenLabs Scribe Speech to Text API (B, 69), ElevenLabs Text to Speech API + MCP (BB, 75.3), ElevenLabs Voice Cloning and Voice Design API (BB, 74.8), Firecrawl MCP (A, 78), Leonardo.Ai API (F, 37.7) and Read AI (D, 50.5).
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