# Type One Ventures (slim)

> Type One Ventures's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Groq, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/type-one-ventures/index.md (~500 tokens) · this version ~380 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/type-one-ventures/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/type-one-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.

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Groq**, Series D, August 2024, valued at $3.5B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Series A, August 2026
  - [GroqCloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq.md), graded BB, 74.5/100
  - [Groq Speech-to-Text](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq-speech-to-text.md), graded BB, 71.8/100
  - Source: https://www.vktr.com/the-wire/groq-raises-640m-to-meet-soaring-demand-for-fast-ai-inference/

## Where they invest

- Model APIs & inference, 1
- Speech-to-text, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Jonathan Ross](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jonathan-ross/), Groq
- [Douglas Wightman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/douglas-wightman/), Groq

## Questions

### Which AI tools has Type One Ventures invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Groq backed by Type One Ventures.

### How are Type One Ventures's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, GroqCloud (BB, 74.5) and Groq Speech-to-Text (BB, 71.8).

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.