# Ben Schmidt

> Ben Schmidt is chief Technology Officer; founding team member. Nomic Embed on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Chief Technology Officer; founding team member.

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

## What Ben builds

- [Nomic Embed](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nomic-embed.md), graded D, 49.6/100, in Embeddings & rerankers. Nomic's hosted embedding endpoints on the Atlas API turn text and images into vectors with the open-weight Nomic Embed models. Agents call them over HTTP with an API key or through the Python and TypeScript clients. Chief Technology Officer; founding team member, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Adam Treat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/adam-treat/), Overall GPT4All project and Chat UI maintainer
- [Andriy Mulyar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andriy-mulyar/), Founder, Nomic, Inc.
- [Brandon Duderstadt](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brandon-duderstadt/), Historical founding CEO and Nomic Embed coauthor; now Calcifer Computing founder/CEO and Nomic advisor
- [Jared Van Bortel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jared-van-bortel/), GPT4All backend, Python binding and Python CLI maintainer
- [Zach Nussbaum](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zach-nussbaum/), Original Nomic Embed model lead and first author; now Microsoft AI

## Backed by

- [Coatue](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/coatue/)
- [Contrary Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/contrary-capital/)
- [Betaworks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/betaworks/)
- [SV Angel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sv-angel/)
- [Story Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/story-ventures/)
- [Factorial Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/factorial-capital/)
- [Aurecon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/aurecon/)
- [Arcadis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/arcadis/)

## Questions

### Who is Ben Schmidt?

Ben Schmidt is chief Technology Officer; founding team member.

### What does Nomic, Inc. make?

Anchor Terminal lists Nomic Embed from Nomic, Inc.. Nomic's hosted embedding endpoints on the Atlas API turn text and images into vectors with the open-weight Nomic Embed models. Agents call them over HTTP with an API key or through the Python and TypeScript clients.

### Who has invested in Nomic, Inc.?

The sources our research read name Coatue, Contrary Capital, Betaworks, SV Angel, Story Ventures, Factorial Capital, Aurecon and Arcadis.

### How are Ben's tools graded?

Nomic Embed is graded D, 49.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.nomic.ai/about
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01613
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andriymulyar
- https://x.com/andriy_mulyar
- https://www.nomad.garden/posts/bio
- https://www.google.com/search?q=Brandon+Duderstadt+Nomic+founder
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bstadt
- https://www.google.com/search?q=Zach+Nussbaum+X
- https://x.com/zach_nussbaum
- https://www.google.com/search?q=Ben+Schmidt+Nomic+LinkedIn
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmschmidt
- https://www.nomic.ai/

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