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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO.\n\nBob van Luijt is co-founder and CEO of Weaviate, the company behind the open-source vector database. He and Etienne Dilocker founded it as SeMI Technologies in 2019, and he writes many of the company's playbook posts on its culture and growth.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobvanluijt/\n\n## What Bob builds\n\n- [Weaviate API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weaviate.md), graded B, 68.1/100, in Retrieval \u0026 vector search. Open-source vector database written in Go, run yourself or on Weaviate Cloud. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Etienne Dilocker](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/etienne-dilocker/), Co-founder and CTO\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Index Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/index-ventures/)\n- [Battery Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/battery-ventures/)\n- [NEA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nea/)\n- [Cortical Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cortical-ventures/)\n- [Zetta Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/zetta-venture-partners/)\n- [ING](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ing/)\n- [GTM Fund](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gtm-fund/)\n- [Scale Asia Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/scale-asia-ventures/)\n- [Alex van Leeuwen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alex-van-leeuwen/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Bob van Luijt?\n\nBob van Luijt is co-founder and CEO of Weaviate, the company behind the open-source vector database. He and Etienne Dilocker founded it as SeMI Technologies in 2019, and he writes many of the company's playbook posts on its culture and growth.\n\n### What does Weaviate make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Weaviate API + MCP from Weaviate. Open-source vector database written in Go, run yourself or on Weaviate Cloud.\n\n### Who has invested in Weaviate?\n\nThe sources our research read name Index Ventures, Battery Ventures, NEA, Cortical Ventures, Zetta Venture Partners, ING, GTM Fund, Scale Asia Ventures and Alex van Leeuwen.\n\n### How are Bob's tools graded?\n\nWeaviate API + MCP is graded B, 68.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://weaviate.io/company/about-us\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobvanluijt/\n- https://de.linkedin.com/in/etienne-dilocker-60727b175\n- https://weaviate.io/\n- https://docs.weaviate.io/support\n- https://weaviate.io/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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