Founder of a listed tool

Guillermo Rauch

Named behind 3 listings on Anchor Terminal.

Founder, Vercel Inc. · Founder, Vercel

Guillermo Rauch founded Vercel in 2015, when it was called ZEIT, and is its CEO. He created the realtime communication library Socket.IO and the Next.js web framework, which Vercel maintains. ZEIT was renamed Vercel in April 2020.

What Guillermo builds

Vercel AI Gateway B · Model APIs & inference
Vercel AI Gateway is a hosted router for model APIs. One API key or Vercel OIDC token reaches models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others through OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic-compatible and AI SDK interfaces, with budgets, request logs and provider failover.
Founder, Vercel Inc., researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Vercel Connect B · Agent auth & delegated access
Vercel Connect is a credential broker for apps and agents. Code asks it for a short-lived, scoped token for Slack, GitHub, Microsoft, Linear, Snowflake or any OAuth, API-key or MCP service, as the app or for a user.
Founder, Vercel Inc., researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Vercel Sandbox BB · Code execution sandboxes
Firecracker microVM sandboxes on Vercel, driven from the @vercel/sandbox JavaScript SDK, the Python vercel package, a CLI or the REST API.
Founder, Vercel, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it

Works with

Dima Voytenko Vercel Connect launch technical co-author
Hedi Zandi Product at Vercel; Connect launch co-author
Jerilyn Zheng Product Manager, AI Gateway

Backed by

Accel GIC Bedrock CRV Notable Capital GV SV Angel 8VC Geodesic Capital Greenoaks Caffeinated Capital Resolute Capital Partners S28 Capital Salesforce Tiger Global TrueBridge Capital Partners Nat Friedman Jordan Walke Naval Ravikant Jessie Frazelle Ilya Sukhar David Cramer Anthony Casalena Soleio Cuervo Matias Woloski Michael Stoppelman Pete Hunt Brendan Eich Sahil Lavingia Rasmus Andersson Benjamin De Cock Alexandr Wang Karri Saarinen

Questions

Who is Guillermo Rauch?

What does Vercel Inc., Vercel make?

Anchor Terminal lists Vercel AI Gateway, Vercel Connect and Vercel Sandbox from Vercel Inc., Vercel. Vercel AI Gateway is a hosted router for model APIs. One API key or Vercel OIDC token reaches models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others through OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic-compatible and AI SDK interfaces, with budgets, request logs and provider failover.

Who has invested in Vercel Inc., Vercel?

The sources our research read name Accel, GIC, Bedrock, CRV, Notable Capital, GV, SV Angel, 8VC, Geodesic Capital, Greenoaks, Caffeinated Capital, Resolute Capital Partners, S28 Capital, Salesforce, Tiger Global, TrueBridge Capital Partners, Nat Friedman, Jordan Walke, Naval Ravikant, Jessie Frazelle, Ilya Sukhar, David Cramer, Anthony Casalena, Soleio Cuervo, Matias Woloski, Michael Stoppelman, Pete Hunt, Brendan Eich, Sahil Lavingia, Rasmus Andersson, Benjamin De Cock, Alexandr Wang and Karri Saarinen.

How are Guillermo's tools graded?

Vercel AI Gateway is graded B, 66.8 out of 100; Vercel Connect is graded B, 68.8 out of 100; Vercel Sandbox is graded BB, 73.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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