# Andreas Jansson (slim)

> Andreas Jansson is co-founder of Replicate, co-founder and co-founder of Replicate (Cloudflare). Replicate Deployments, Replicate image models, MusicGen on Replicate and Replicate video models on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder, Replicate.

Andreas Jansson co-founded Replicate, a platform for running machine learning models through an API, in Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janssonandreas

## What Andreas builds

- [Replicate Deployments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-deploy.md), graded B, 63.7/100, in GPU & serverless compute. Replicate's service for deploying and running custom models. Co-founder, Replicate, researched 2026-10-26.
- [Replicate image models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-image.md), graded D, 50.3/100, in Image generation. Model platform running official and community image models through one predictions API. Co-founder, researched 2026-10-27.
- [MusicGen on Replicate](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-musicgen.md), graded C, 54.4/100, in Music generation. Replicate's hosted copy of Meta's open-weights MusicGen (stereo-melody-large, stereo-large, melody-large, large), prompted with text or a melody clip. Co-founder, Replicate (Cloudflare), researched 2026-10-26.
- [Replicate video models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-video.md), graded B, 62.2/100, in Video generation. Replicate runs third-party and open video models, among them Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Runway Gen-4.5, Seedance 2.0 and Wan, through one predictions API with Python and JavaScript clients and an MCP server. Co-founder, Replicate (Cloudflare), researched 2026-10-26.

## Works with

- [Ben Firshman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ben-firshman/), Co-founder, Replicate
- [Shridhar Athinarayanan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shridhar-athinarayanan/), Models Engineer

## Backed by

- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andreessen-horowitz/)
- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)
- [Heavybit](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/heavybit/)
- [Sequoia Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sequoia-capital/)
- [Dylan Field](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dylan-field/)
- [Guillermo Rauch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/guillermo-rauch/)

## Questions

### Who is Andreas Jansson?

Andreas Jansson co-founded Replicate, a platform for running machine learning models through an API, in Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch.

### What does Replicate, Replicate (Cloudflare) make?

Anchor Terminal lists Replicate Deployments, Replicate image models, MusicGen on Replicate and Replicate video models from Replicate, Replicate (Cloudflare).

### Who has invested in Replicate, Replicate (Cloudflare)?

The sources our research read name Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, NVIDIA, Heavybit, Sequoia Capital, Dylan Field and Guillermo Rauch.

### How are Andreas's tools graded?

Replicate Deployments is graded B, 63.7 out of 100; Replicate image models is graded D, 50.3 out of 100; MusicGen on Replicate is graded C, 54.4 out of 100; Replicate video models is graded B, 62.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/replicate
- https://replicate.com/
- https://replicate.com/about
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/35139-ben-firshman
- https://replicate.com/blog/replicate-cloudflare
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bfirsh/
- https://x.com/bfirsh
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/421489-andreas-jansson
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/janssonandreas
- https://shridharathi.com
- https://replicate.com/shridharathi
- https://replicate.com/blog/flux-kontext-optimization
- https://replicate.com/blog/how-to-prompt-seedream-5
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shridhar-athinarayanan-638493199/
- https://x.com/shridharathi
- https://replicate.com
- https://replicate.com/stability-ai/stable-diffusion-3.5-large/readme
- https://replicate.com/docs/topics/models/hardware
- https://replicate.com/support

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.