# Eiso Kant

> Eiso Kant is co-founder and CTO of Poolside. Laguna M.1, Laguna S 2.1 and Laguna XS 2.1 on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Co-founder and CTO, Poolside.

## What Eiso builds

- [Laguna M.1](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/laguna-m-1.md), graded C, 55.5/100, in Open-weight models. Laguna M.1 is Poolside's first-generation open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model for agentic coding, 225B total and 23B active parameters, with switchable reasoning and a 262,144-token context, published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. Co-founder and CTO, Poolside, researched 2026-10-27.
- [Laguna S 2.1](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/laguna-s-2-1.md), graded C, 61/100, in Open-weight models. Laguna S 2.1 is Poolside's open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model for agentic coding, 118B total and 8B active parameters, with switchable reasoning and a 1,048,576-token context, published on Hugging Face under OpenMDW-1.1. Co-founder and CTO, Poolside, researched 2026-10-27.
- [Laguna XS 2.1](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/laguna-xs-2-1.md), graded C, 61/100, in Open-weight models. Laguna XS 2.1 is Poolside's open-weight Mixture-of-Experts coding model, 33B total and 3B active parameters, with switchable reasoning and a 262,144-token context, published on Hugging Face under OpenMDW-1.1. Co-founder and CTO, Poolside, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Jason Warner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jason-warner/), Co-founder and CEO, Poolside

## Backed by

- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bain-capital-ventures/)
- [eBay](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ebay/)
- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)

## Questions

### Who is Eiso Kant?

Eiso Kant is co-founder and CTO of Poolside.

### What does Poolside make?

Anchor Terminal lists Laguna M.1, Laguna S 2.1 and Laguna XS 2.1 from Poolside. Laguna M.1 is Poolside's first-generation open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model for agentic coding, 225B total and 23B active parameters, with switchable reasoning and a 262,144-token context, published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0.

### Who has invested in Poolside?

The sources our research read name Bain Capital Ventures, eBay and NVIDIA.

### How are Eiso's tools graded?

Laguna M.1 is graded C, 55.5 out of 100; Laguna S 2.1 is graded C, 61 out of 100; Laguna XS 2.1 is graded C, 61 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://poolside.ai/vision/purpose
- https://docs.poolside.ai/
- https://docs.poolside.ai/support/overview
- https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-M.1
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poolside_AI
- https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-S-2.1
- https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1

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