# Venture Catalysts

> Venture Catalysts's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Vaani AI Research Private Limited, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/venture-catalysts/
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/venture-catalysts/index.md (~500 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/venture-catalysts/index.min.md (~430 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/venture-catalysts/index.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (the key docs and every listing in one file, at most 16 MB, about 4 million tokens: 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)
- DNS: dig +short TXT <slug>.grade.anchorterminal.com (the grade as a DNS TXT record, for a sandbox with no HTTP where names still resolve; also top., best.<category>. and <a>.vs.<b>. under the zone, and the same under grade.letme.dev)
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)
- Updated: 2026-11-02

Venture firm.

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Vaani AI Research Private Limited**, Pre-seed, September 2025, led a round
  - [Vaani Developer Platform](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vaani-voice.md), graded E, 44.6/100
  - Source: https://entrackr.com/snippets/vaani-ai-research-raises-400k-pre-seed-round-led-by-venture-catalysts-10512994

## Where they invest

- Conversational voice agents, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Tushar Shinde](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tushar-shinde/), Vaani AI Research Private Limited
- [Nitesh Tripathi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/nitesh-tripathi/), Vaani AI Research Private Limited
- [Nitish Mishra](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/nitish-mishra/), Vaani AI Research Private Limited

## Questions

### Which AI tools has Venture Catalysts invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Vaani AI Research Private Limited backed by Venture Catalysts.

### How are Venture Catalysts's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Vaani Developer Platform (E, 44.6).

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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