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  "markdown": "Co-founder.\n\nAnton 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.\n\n- X: https://x.com/atroyn\n\n## What Anton builds\n\n- [Chroma API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/chroma.md), graded E, 45.3/100, in Retrieval \u0026 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 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Jeff Huber](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jeff-huber/), Co-founder and CEO\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Quiet Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/quiet-capital/)\n- [AIX Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/aix-ventures/)\n- [Bloomberg Beta](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bloomberg-beta/)\n- [AI Grant](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ai-grant/)\n- [Naval Ravikant](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/naval-ravikant/)\n- [Max Altman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/max-altman/)\n- [Jack Altman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jack-altman/)\n- [Jordan Tigani](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jordan-tigani/)\n- [Guillermo Rauch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/guillermo-rauch/)\n- [Akshay Kothari](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/akshay-kothari/)\n- [Amjad Masad](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amjad-masad/)\n- [Spencer Kimball](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/spencer-kimball/)\n- [Michele Catasta](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/michele-catasta/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Anton Troynikov?\n\nAnton 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.\n\n### What does Chroma make?\n\nAnchor 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.\n\n### Who has invested in Chroma?\n\nThe 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.\n\n### How are Anton's tools graded?\n\nChroma API + MCP is graded E, 45.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.trychroma.com/blog/chroma-joins-replit\n- https://x.com/jeffreyhuber\n- https://x.com/atroyn\n- https://www.trychroma.com\n- https://www.linkedin.com/company/trychroma\n- https://www.trychroma.com/cloud-wind-down\n- https://docs.trychroma.com/docs/overview/introduction\n- https://www.trychroma.com/talk-with-us\n- https://www.trychroma.com/\n\nThese 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. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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