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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Arize AI.\n\nAparna Dhinakaran is co-founder and chief product officer of Arize AI, an observability and evaluation company for AI models and agents. She was previously a machine learning engineer at Uber, where she built ML infrastructure including Michelangelo, and worked at Apple and TubeMogul. She studied electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley.\n\n## What Aparna builds\n\n- [Arize Phoenix](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/arize-phoenix.md), graded BB, 75.8/100, in Agent observability \u0026 evals. Self-hosted tracing, evaluation, datasets, experiments and prompt management built on OpenTelemetry and OpenInference. Co-founder, Arize AI, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Jason Lopatecki](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jason-lopatecki/), Co-founder, Arize AI\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Battery Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/battery-ventures/)\n- [TCV](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tcv/)\n- [Foundation Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/foundation-capital/)\n- [Swift Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/swift-ventures/)\n- [Adams Street Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/adams-street-partners/)\n- [Microsoft](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/microsoft/)\n- [SineWave Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sinewave-ventures/)\n- [OMERS Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/omers-ventures/)\n- [Datadog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/datadog/)\n- [PagerDuty](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/pagerduty/)\n- [Industry Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/industry-ventures/)\n- [Archerman Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/archerman-capital/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Aparna Dhinakaran?\n\nAparna Dhinakaran is co-founder and chief product officer of Arize AI, an observability and evaluation company for AI models and agents. She was previously a machine learning engineer at Uber, where she built ML infrastructure including Michelangelo, and worked at Apple and TubeMogul. She studied electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley.\n\n### What does Arize AI make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Arize Phoenix from Arize AI. Self-hosted tracing, evaluation, datasets, experiments and prompt management built on OpenTelemetry and OpenInference.\n\n### Who has invested in Arize AI?\n\nThe sources our research read name Battery Ventures, TCV, Foundation Capital, Swift Ventures, Adams Street Partners, Microsoft, SineWave Ventures, OMERS Ventures, Datadog, PagerDuty, Industry Ventures and Archerman Capital.\n\n### How are Aparna's tools graded?\n\nArize Phoenix is graded BB, 75.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://arize.com/about/\n- https://arize.com/phoenix/\n- https://arize.com/docs/phoenix\n- https://arize.com/contact/\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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