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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO.\n\nJeff Huber is co-founder and CEO of Chroma, the open-source vector database for AI applications. He and Anton Troynikov started the company in 2022 around the interpretability of model latent spaces and released ChromaDB in 2023. In October 2026 he announced that Chroma had agreed to join Replit.\n\n- X: https://x.com/jeffreyhuber\n\n## What Jeff builds\n\n- [Chroma API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/chroma.md), graded E, 45.3/100, in Retrieval \u0026 vector search. Open-source retrieval database that runs in-process, as a local server or as Chroma Cloud, a serverless hosted service. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Anton Troynikov](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/anton-troynikov/), Co-founder\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Quiet Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/quiet-capital/)\n- [AIX Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/aix-ventures/)\n- [Bloomberg Beta](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bloomberg-beta/)\n- [AI Grant](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ai-grant/)\n- [Naval Ravikant](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/naval-ravikant/)\n- [Max Altman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/max-altman/)\n- [Jack Altman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jack-altman/)\n- [Jordan Tigani](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jordan-tigani/)\n- [Guillermo Rauch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/guillermo-rauch/)\n- [Akshay Kothari](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/akshay-kothari/)\n- [Amjad Masad](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amjad-masad/)\n- [Spencer Kimball](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/spencer-kimball/)\n- [Michele Catasta](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/michele-catasta/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Jeff Huber?\n\nJeff Huber is co-founder and CEO of Chroma, the open-source vector database for AI applications. He and Anton Troynikov started the company in 2022 around the interpretability of model latent spaces and released ChromaDB in 2023. In October 2026 he announced that Chroma had agreed to join Replit.\n\n### What does Chroma make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Chroma API + MCP from Chroma. Open-source retrieval database that runs in-process, as a local server or as Chroma Cloud, a serverless hosted service.\n\n### Who has invested in Chroma?\n\nThe sources our research read name Quiet Capital, AIX Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, AI Grant, Naval Ravikant, Max Altman, Jack Altman, Jordan Tigani, Guillermo Rauch, Akshay Kothari, Amjad Masad, Spencer Kimball and Michele Catasta.\n\n### How are Jeff's tools graded?\n\nChroma API + MCP is graded E, 45.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.trychroma.com/blog/chroma-joins-replit\n- https://x.com/jeffreyhuber\n- https://x.com/atroyn\n- https://www.trychroma.com\n- https://www.linkedin.com/company/trychroma\n- https://www.trychroma.com/cloud-wind-down\n- https://docs.trychroma.com/docs/overview/introduction\n- https://www.trychroma.com/talk-with-us\n- https://www.trychroma.com/\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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