Founder of a listed tool
Anton Troynikov
Co-founder, named behind the Chroma API + MCP listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Anton builds
Chroma API + MCP E · Retrieval & vector search
Open-source retrieval database that runs in-process, as a local server or as Chroma Cloud, a serverless hosted service.
Co-founder, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Jeff Huber Co-founder and CEO
Backed by
Quiet Capital AIX Ventures Bloomberg Beta AI Grant Naval Ravikant Max Altman Jack Altman Jordan Tigani Guillermo Rauch Akshay Kothari Amjad Masad Spencer Kimball Michele Catasta
Questions
Who is Anton Troynikov?
Anton Troynikov co-founded Chroma, the open-source vector database, with Jeff Huber in 2022. Chroma's seed announcement says the pair's background in model interpretability shaped the company, which built its own vector database after finding existing ones hard to use.
What does Chroma make?
Anchor Terminal lists Chroma API + MCP from Chroma. Open-source retrieval database that runs in-process, as a local server or as Chroma Cloud, a serverless hosted service.
Who has invested in Chroma?
The sources our research read name Quiet Capital, AIX Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, AI Grant, Naval Ravikant, Max Altman, Jack Altman, Jordan Tigani, Guillermo Rauch, Akshay Kothari, Amjad Masad, Spencer Kimball and Michele Catasta.
How are Anton's tools graded?
Chroma API + MCP is graded E, 45.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (9)
- https://www.trychroma.com/blog/chroma-joins-replit
- https://x.com/jeffreyhuber
- https://x.com/atroyn
- https://www.trychroma.com
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/trychroma
- https://www.trychroma.com/cloud-wind-down
- https://docs.trychroma.com/docs/overview/introduction
- https://www.trychroma.com/talk-with-us
- https://www.trychroma.com/
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