Venture firm in listed AI tools
Thrive Capital
Thrive Capital has backed 13 companies behind 27 listings on Anchor Terminal.
Companies on Anchor Terminal
Formagrid Inc (Airtable) Series F, December 2021
Check Technologies, Inc. Series C, through Thrive
Source checkhq.com/resources/blog/…
Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary Series A, August 2024, Series B, January 2025, Series C, June 2025, Series D, November 2025
Source cursor.com/blog/series-a
Anysphere, Inc. / Cursor (acquired by SpaceX per engineer biography) Series A, August 2024, Series B, January 2025, Series C, June 2025, Series D, November 2025
Source cursor.com/blog/series-a
OpenAI $6.6B round, October 2024, $40B round, March 2025, led a round
- GPT-Live B · Conversational voice agents
- gpt-oss-120b BB · Open-weight models
- gpt-oss-20b B · Open-weight models
- OpenAI Agents SDK AA · Agent frameworks & SDKs
- OpenAI API A · Model APIs & inference
- OpenAI Codex BB · Agent harnesses
- OpenAI Decisions API BB · Decision models
- Dots F · Personal assistants
- OpenAI embeddings BB · Embeddings & rerankers
- OpenAI Guardrails B · Guardrails & safety filters
- OpenAI Image API BB · Image generation
- OpenAI Moderation API BB · Guardrails & safety filters
- OpenAI Realtime API B · Conversational voice agents
- OpenAI Speech to Text BB · Speech-to-text
Source nbcnews.com/business/…
Guru Technologies, Inc. Series C, April 2020
Source getguru.com/blog/…
HeyGen Series A, June 2024
Source maginative.com/article/…
Mapbox Series C, October 2017, through Thrive
Source mapbox.com/blog/…
Pleo Technologies A/S
Source pleo.io/en/press
Ramp Business Corporation Series B, April 2021, Series C, August 2021, Funding round, March 2022, Funding round, August 2023, Series D-2, April 2024
Source ramp.com/blog/ramp-series-c
Stripe Series I, March 2023
Source stripe.com/newsroom/news/…
Stytch (Twilio) Series A, July 2021, Series B, November 2021, led a round
Source stytch.com/blog/…
Tempo Series A, October 2025, led a round
Where they invest
Agent frameworks & SDKs 2 Agent harnesses 2 Conversational voice agents 2 Open-weight models 2 Guardrails & safety filters 2 Spend management & procurement 2 Payment & monetisation platforms 2 Spreadsheets & operational tables 1 Payroll infrastructure 1 Model APIs & inference 1 Decision models 1 Personal assistants 1 Embeddings & rerankers 1 Image generation 1 Speech-to-text 1 Company knowledge & data catalogues 1 Text-to-speech 1 Video generation 1 Maps, geocoding & places 1 Agent auth & delegated access 1
Founders they backed
- Howie Liu Formagrid Inc (Airtable)
- Andrew Brown Check Technologies, Inc.
- Vivek Patel Check Technologies, Inc.
- Eric Stromberg Check Technologies, Inc.
- Michael Truell Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary
- Sualeh Asif Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary
- Aman Sanger Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary
- Arvid Lunnemark Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary
- Sam Altman OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Elon Musk OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Greg Brockman OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Ilya Sutskever OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- John Schulman OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Wojciech Zaremba OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Trevor Blackwell OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Vicki Cheung OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Andrej Karpathy OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Durk Kingma OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Pamela Vagata OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Rick Nucci Guru Technologies, Inc.
- Mitch Stewart Guru Technologies, Inc.
- Joshua Xu HeyGen
- Wayne L. HeyGen
- Eric Gundersen Mapbox
- Patrick Collison OpenAI and Stripe, Stripe, LLC, Stripe
- John Collison OpenAI and Stripe, Stripe, LLC, Stripe
- Matt Huang Tempo
Questions
Which AI tools has Thrive Capital invested in?
Anchor Terminal lists Formagrid Inc (Airtable), Check Technologies, Inc., Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary, Anysphere, Inc. / Cursor (acquired by SpaceX per engineer biography), OpenAI, Guru Technologies, Inc., HeyGen, Mapbox, Pleo Technologies A/S, Ramp Business Corporation, Stripe, Stytch (Twilio) and Tempo backed by Thrive Capital.
How are Thrive Capital's companies graded?
On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Airtable (BB, 70.9), Check (B, 67.6), Cursor Agent SDK (B, 63.6), Cursor CLI (F, 35.4), GPT-Live (B, 66.9), gpt-oss-120b (BB, 70.2), gpt-oss-20b (B, 69.9), OpenAI Agents SDK (AA, 86.2), OpenAI API (A, 82.9), OpenAI Codex (BB, 73.5), OpenAI Decisions API (BB, 73.1), Dots (F, 28.8), OpenAI embeddings (BB, 72.2), OpenAI Guardrails (B, 69.5), OpenAI Image API (BB, 72.4), OpenAI Moderation API (BB, 71.4), OpenAI Realtime API (B, 63.4), OpenAI Speech to Text (BB, 72.6), Guru (E, 45.3), HeyGen Voice (BB, 71.1), HyperFrames (E, 39.7), Mapbox APIs + MCP (BB, 77.2), Pleo API + MCP (B, 63), Ramp (C, 57.3), Stripe API + MCP (A, 82.9), Stytch Connected Apps (C, 60.8) and Tempo (BB, 77.3).
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