Founder of a listed tool
Tom Brown
Named behind 3 listings on Anchor Terminal.
What Tom builds
Claude API BB · Model APIs & inference
Anthropic's Messages API for Claude, with server-side tools, an MCP connector and computer use.
Co-founder, Anthropic, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Claude Agent SDK BB · Agent frameworks & SDKs
Runs the Claude Code agent as a library, with its loop, built-in tools, permissions, sessions, hooks and subagents.
Co-founder, Anthropic, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Claude Code C · Agent harnesses
Anthropic's coding agent as a terminal program, also in VS Code, JetBrains, the desktop app and Anthropic-hosted cloud sessions.
Co-founder, Anthropic, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Angela Jiang Head of Product, Claude Platform
- Boris Cherny Software Engineer; creator of Claude Code
- Chris Olah Co-founder, Anthropic
- Daniela Amodei Co-founder, Anthropic
- Dario Amodei Co-founder, Anthropic
- Jack Clark Co-founder, Anthropic
- Jared Kaplan Co-founder, Anthropic
- Sam McCandlish Co-founder, Anthropic
- Thariq Shihipar Member of Technical Staff, Claude Code; Claude Agent SDK engineering article author
Backed by
Jim McClave Nishad Singh Jaan Tallinn Center for Emerging Risk Research (CERR) Spark Capital Google Salesforce Sound Ventures Zoom Amazon Lightspeed Venture Partners Bessemer Venture Partners Cisco Investments D1 Capital Partners Fidelity Management & Research Company General Catalyst Jane Street Menlo Ventures ICONIQ Altimeter Capital Baillie Gifford BlackRock Blackstone Coatue General Atlantic GIC Goldman Sachs Insight Partners Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Qatar Investment Authority TPG T. Rowe Price WCM Investment Management XN NVIDIA Microsoft D. E. Shaw Ventures Dragoneer Founders Fund MGX Accel Addition Alpha Wave Global AMP PBC Appaloosa LP Greenoaks JPMorganChase Morgan Stanley Investment Management NX1 Capital Sands Capital Sequoia Capital Temasek TowerBrook Whale Rock Capital Capital Group Brookfield DST Global NTTVC Situational Awareness LP
Questions
Who is Tom Brown?
Tom Brown co-founded Anthropic and is its chief compute officer, leading the team that secures, scales and uses its compute. Before Anthropic he led the engineering of GPT-3 at OpenAI, and Anthropic credits him with Dario Amodei as a co-inventor of reinforcement learning from human feedback.
What does Anthropic make?
Anchor Terminal lists Claude API, Claude Agent SDK and Claude Code from Anthropic. Anthropic's Messages API for Claude, with server-side tools, an MCP connector and computer use.
Who has invested in Anthropic?
The sources our research read name Jim McClave, Nishad Singh, Jaan Tallinn, Center for Emerging Risk Research (CERR), Spark Capital, Google, Salesforce, Sound Ventures, Zoom, Amazon, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, General Catalyst, Jane Street, Menlo Ventures, ICONIQ, Altimeter Capital, Baillie Gifford, BlackRock, Blackstone, Coatue, General Atlantic, GIC, Goldman Sachs, Insight Partners, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Qatar Investment Authority, TPG, T. Rowe Price, WCM Investment Management, XN, NVIDIA, Microsoft, D. E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, MGX, Accel, Addition, Alpha Wave Global, AMP PBC, Appaloosa LP, Greenoaks, JPMorganChase, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, NX1 Capital, Sands Capital, Sequoia Capital, Temasek, TowerBrook, Whale Rock Capital, Capital Group, Brookfield, DST Global, NTTVC and Situational Awareness LP.
How are Tom's tools graded?
Claude API is graded BB, 77.3 out of 100; Claude Agent SDK is graded BB, 70.1 out of 100; Claude Code is graded C, 59.9 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (8)
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelajiang/
- https://www.anthropic.com/company/leadership
- https://www.anthropic.com/
- https://platform.claude.com/
- https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-agents-with-the-claude-agent-sdk
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/thariqshihipar/
- https://borischerny.com/about
- https://x.com/bcherny
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