# Sound Ventures (slim)

> Sound Ventures's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, 1Password, Anthropic, Anthropic, PBC, Factory and 1 more, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sound-ventures/index.md (~1,100 tokens) · this version ~980 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sound-ventures/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sound-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
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

Venture firm.

Website: https://www.soundventures.com

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **1Password**, Funding round, July 2021
  - [1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/1password.md), graded BB, 71.8/100
  - Source: https://1password.com/blog/investing-in-our-future-again
- **Anthropic**, Series C, May 2023
  - [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-series-c
- **Anthropic, PBC**, Series C, May 2023
  - [Claude Duet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-duet.md), graded F, 17.9/100
  - Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-series-c
- **Factory**, $200M round, September 2026
  - [Droid CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/droid-cli.md), graded C, 59.1/100
  - Source: https://factory.com/news/5-billion-valuation
- **Stability AI**, Investment round, June 2024
  - [Stability AI Image API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/stability-ai-image.md), graded E, 42.4/100
  - [Stable Audio API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/stable-audio.md), graded D, 50.1/100
  - Source: https://stability.ai/news-updates/stability-ai-secures-significant-new-investment

## Where they invest

- Agent harnesses, 2
- Secrets & credential vaults, 1
- Model APIs & inference, 1
- Agent frameworks & SDKs, 1
- Personal assistants, 1
- Image generation, 1
- Music generation, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Sara Teare](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sara-teare/), 1Password
- [Dave Teare](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/dave-teare/), 1Password
- [Roustem Karimov](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/roustem-karimov/), 1Password
- [Natalia Karimov](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/natalia-karimov/), 1Password
- [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
- [Matan Grinberg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/matan-grinberg/), Factory
- [Eno Reyes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/eno-reyes/), Factory
- [Emad Mostaque](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/emad-mostaque/), Stability AI

## Questions

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

Anchor Terminal lists 1Password, Anthropic, Anthropic, PBC, Factory and Stability AI backed by Sound Ventures.

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

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP (BB, 71.8), Claude API (BB, 77.3), Claude Agent SDK (BB, 70.1), Claude Code (C, 59.9), Claude Duet (F, 17.9), Droid CLI (C, 59.1), Stability AI Image API (E, 42.4) and Stable Audio API (D, 50.1).

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.