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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CTO.\n\nEtienne Dilocker is co-founder and CTO of Weaviate, the company behind the open-source vector database, founded as SeMI Technologies. He was its founding engineer and built the first product by hand, then grew into engineering team lead and VP of Engineering before taking the CTO role.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/etienne-dilocker-60727b175\n\n## What Etienne 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 CTO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Bob van Luijt](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/bob-van-luijt/), Co-founder and CEO\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 Etienne Dilocker?\n\nEtienne Dilocker is co-founder and CTO of Weaviate, the company behind the open-source vector database, founded as SeMI Technologies. He was its founding engineer and built the first product by hand, then grew into engineering team lead and VP of Engineering before taking the CTO role.\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 Etienne'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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