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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CTO.\n\nJesse Clark co-founded Celeris, an AI research lab building low-latency language models, with Tom Hamer, after the pair co-founded Marqo, a search platform for e-commerce. He previously led machine learning at Amazon Robotics, was principal ML scientist at Stitch Fix and held physics research posts at Stanford and UCL.\n\n- X: https://x.com/jn2clark\n\n## What Jesse builds\n\n- [Celeris-1 Decision](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/celeris-1-decision.md), graded D, 49.5/100, in Decision models. Celeris-1 Decision is a hosted multimodal diffusion model from Celeris, a Marqo Inc research lab. Its HTTP API answers typed questions about text, structured data and images with probabilities and optional explanations. Co-founder and CTO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Tom Hamer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tom-hamer/), Co-founder and CEO\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lightspeed-venture-partners/)\n- [Blackbird Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/blackbird-ventures/)\n- [January Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/january-capital/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Jesse Clark?\n\nJesse Clark co-founded Celeris, an AI research lab building low-latency language models, with Tom Hamer, after the pair co-founded Marqo, a search platform for e-commerce. He previously led machine learning at Amazon Robotics, was principal ML scientist at Stitch Fix and held physics research posts at Stanford and UCL.\n\n### What does Celeris (Marqo Inc) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Celeris-1 Decision from Celeris (Marqo Inc). Celeris-1 Decision is a hosted multimodal diffusion model from Celeris, a Marqo Inc research lab. Its HTTP API answers typed questions about text, structured data and images with probabilities and optional explanations.\n\n### Who has invested in Celeris (Marqo Inc)?\n\nThe sources our research read name Lightspeed Venture Partners, Blackbird Ventures and January Capital.\n\n### How are Jesse's tools graded?\n\nCeleris-1 Decision is graded D, 49.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://celeris.ai/about\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-hamer-04a6369b\n- https://x.com/tom_w_hamer\n- https://x.com/jn2clark\n- https://celeris.ai/\n- https://celeris.ai\n- https://docs.celeris.ai/support\n- https://celeris.ai/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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