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  "markdown": "Founder, Voyage AI.\n\nTengyu Ma founded Voyage AI in 2023 to help developers build retrieval systems with embedding and reranking models. In February 2025 he announced that the company had joined MongoDB.\n\n## What Tengyu builds\n\n- [Voyage AI embeddings and rerankers](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/voyage-ai.md), graded C, 58.8/100, in Embeddings \u0026 rerankers. Embedding and reranking models for text, code and multimodal retrieval from MongoDB-owned Voyage AI. Founder, Voyage AI, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [CRV](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/crv/)\n- [Wing Venture Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/wing-venture-capital/)\n- [Conviction](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/conviction/)\n- [Snowflake](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/snowflake/)\n- [Databricks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/databricks/)\n- [Pear VC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/pear-vc/)\n- [Tectonic Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tectonic-ventures/)\n- [Mayfield](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mayfield/)\n- [Fusion Fund](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/fusion-fund/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Tengyu Ma?\n\nTengyu Ma founded Voyage AI in 2023 to help developers build retrieval systems with embedding and reranking models. In February 2025 he announced that the company had joined MongoDB.\n\n### What does Voyage AI (MongoDB) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Voyage AI embeddings and rerankers from Voyage AI (MongoDB). Embedding and reranking models for text, code and multimodal retrieval from MongoDB-owned Voyage AI.\n\n### Who has invested in Voyage AI (MongoDB)?\n\nThe sources our research read name CRV, Wing Venture Capital, Conviction, Snowflake, Databricks, Pear VC, Tectonic Ventures, Mayfield and Fusion Fund.\n\n### How are Tengyu's tools graded?\n\nVoyage AI embeddings and rerankers is graded C, 58.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.voyageai.com/\n- https://blog.voyageai.com/2025/02/24/joining-mongodb/\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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