# Brandon Duderstadt

> Brandon Duderstadt is historical founding CEO and Nomic Embed coauthor; now Calcifer Computing founder/CEO and Nomic advisor. Nomic Embed on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Historical founding CEO and Nomic Embed coauthor; now Calcifer Computing founder/CEO and Nomic advisor.

Brandon Duderstadt was the founding CEO of Nomic AI and now builds Calcifer Computing, an AI research and development company. He was earlier an early team member at Rad AI. His research has appeared at ACL, EMNLP, ICLR and CVPR, and he is a Whiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University.

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

## What Brandon 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. Historical founding CEO and Nomic Embed coauthor; now Calcifer Computing founder/CEO and Nomic advisor, 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.
- [Ben Schmidt](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ben-schmidt/), Chief Technology Officer; founding team member
- [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 Brandon Duderstadt?

Brandon Duderstadt was the founding CEO of Nomic AI and now builds Calcifer Computing, an AI research and development company. He was earlier an early team member at Rad AI. His research has appeared at ACL, EMNLP, ICLR and CVPR, and he is a Whiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University.

### 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 Brandon'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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