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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO.\n\nJoowon Kim is co-founder and CEO of Melius, a New York company building AI agents that turn an idea into images, video and audio. In October 2026 Melius announced $25 million in total funding from General Catalyst, CRV and others. Joowon Kim previously worked at Ramp with co-founder Young Kim.\n\n## What Joowon builds\n\n- [Melius](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/melius.md), graded C, 54.2/100, in Design workspaces \u0026 canvases. Melius is a hosted node-based canvas for generating images, video, audio and text with many third-party models. Outside agents read and write projects, canvases, nodes, edges, runs and comments through a REST API, an MCP server and the mel CLI. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Arnav Ramu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/arnav-ramu/), Co-founder\n- [Young Kim](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/young-kim/), Co-founder\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [General Catalyst](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/general-catalyst/)\n- [CRV](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/crv/)\n- [Genius Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/genius-ventures/)\n- [Vine Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/vine-ventures/)\n- [Anti Fund](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/anti-fund/)\n- [Guillermo Rauch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/guillermo-rauch/)\n- [Kahlil Lalji](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kahlil-lalji/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Joowon Kim?\n\nJoowon Kim is co-founder and CEO of Melius, a New York company building AI agents that turn an idea into images, video and audio. In October 2026 Melius announced $25 million in total funding from General Catalyst, CRV and others. Joowon Kim previously worked at Ramp with co-founder Young Kim.\n\n### What does Melius AI, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Melius from Melius AI, Inc.. Melius is a hosted node-based canvas for generating images, video, audio and text with many third-party models. Outside agents read and write projects, canvases, nodes, edges, runs and comments through a REST API, an MCP server and the mel CLI.\n\n### Who has invested in Melius AI, Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name General Catalyst, CRV, Genius Ventures, Vine Ventures, Anti Fund, Guillermo Rauch and Kahlil Lalji.\n\n### How are Joowon's tools graded?\n\nMelius is graded C, 54.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.melius.com/\n- https://www.melius.com/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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