# Tri Dao (slim) > Tri Dao is co-founder and Chief Scientist. Together AI Inference on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles. - Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tri-dao/index.md (~2,100 tokens) · this version ~1,780 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tri-dao/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tri-dao/ - Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-28 - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) Co-founder and Chief Scientist. Tri Dao is a founder and chief scientist of Together AI. - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tri-dao-71544155/ ## What Tri builds - [Together AI Inference](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/together-inference.md), graded B, 67.8/100, in Model APIs & inference. Together AI Inference serves open models through an OpenAI-compatible API, with serverless requests, batch processing, dedicated model deployments and provisioned throughput. Model-dependent capabilities include tool calling, structured outputs and vision. Co-founder and Chief Scientist, researched 2026-10-27. ## Works with - [Ce Zhang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ce-zhang/), Co-founder and CTO - [Charles Zedlewski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/charles-zedlewski/), Chief Product Officer - [Chris Ré](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chris-re/), Co-founder, Together Computer, Inc. - [Percy Liang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/percy-liang/), Co-founder, Together Computer, Inc. - [Vipul Ved Prakash](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/vipul-ved-prakash/), Co-founder and CEO ## Backed by - [Lux Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lux-capital/) - [Kleiner Perkins](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kleiner-perkins/) - [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/) - [Emergence Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/emergence-capital/) - [Salesforce](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/salesforce/) - [Coatue](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/coatue/) - [Aramco Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/aramco-ventures/) - [NEA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nea/) - [Greycroft](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/greycroft/) - [Definition Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/definition-capital/) - [Long Journey Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/long-journey-ventures/) - [Factory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/factory/) - [SV Angel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sv-angel/) - [First Round Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/first-round-capital/) - [A Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/a-capital/) - [Robot Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/robot-ventures/) - [Common Metal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/common-metal/) - [Susa Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/susa-ventures/) - [Cadenza Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cadenza-ventures/) - [SCB 10x](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/scb-10x/) - [Scott Banister](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/scott-banister/) - [Jeff Hammerbacher](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jeff-hammerbacher/) - [Dawn Song](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dawn-song/) - [Alex Atallah](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alex-atallah/) - [MC Lader](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mc-lader/) - [Lip-Bu Tan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lip-bu-tan/) - [Jakob Uszkoreit](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jakob-uszkoreit/) - [Marc Bhargava](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/marc-bhargava/) - [Jennifer Campbell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jennifer-campbell/) - [Chafic Kazoun](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/chafic-kazoun/) - [Sabrina Hahn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sabrina-hahn/) - [SongYee Yoon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/songyee-yoon/) - [Chase Lochmiller](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/chase-lochmiller/) - [Yi Sun](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/yi-sun/) - [Dave Eisenberg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dave-eisenberg/) - [Panos Madamopoulos-Moraris](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/panos-madamopoulos-moraris/) - [Zach Frankel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/zach-frankel/) - [Clem Delangue](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/clem-delangue/) - [Soumith Chintala](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/soumith-chintala/) - [General Catalyst](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/general-catalyst/) - [DAMAC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/damac/) - [March Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/march-capital/) - [Schneider Electric](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/schneider-electric/) - [Brave Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/brave-capital/) - [SK Telecom](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sk-telecom/) - [John Chambers](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/john-chambers/) - [Vista Equity Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/vista-equity-partners/) - [Pegatron](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/pegatron/) - [DTCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dtcp/) - [Geodesic Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/geodesic-capital/) - [PSP Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/psp-partners/) ## Questions ### Who is Tri Dao? Tri Dao is a founder and chief scientist of Together AI. ### What does Together Computer, Inc. make? Anchor Terminal lists Together AI Inference from Together Computer, Inc.. ### Who has invested in Together Computer, Inc.? The sources our research read name Lux Capital, Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA, Emergence Capital, Salesforce, Coatue, Aramco Ventures, NEA, Greycroft, Definition Capital, Long Journey Ventures, Factory, SV Angel, First Round Capital, A Capital, Robot Ventures, Common Metal, Susa Ventures, Cadenza Ventures, SCB 10x, Scott Banister, Jeff Hammerbacher, Dawn Song, Alex Atallah, MC Lader, Lip-Bu Tan, Jakob Uszkoreit, Marc Bhargava, Jennifer Campbell, Chafic Kazoun, Sabrina Hahn, SongYee Yoon, Chase Lochmiller, Yi Sun, Dave Eisenberg, Panos Madamopoulos-Moraris, Zach Frankel, Clem Delangue, Soumith Chintala, General Catalyst, DAMAC, March Capital, Schneider Electric, Brave Capital, SK Telecom, John Chambers, Vista Equity Partners, Pegatron, DTCP, Geodesic Capital and PSP Partners. ### How are Tri's tools graded? Together AI Inference is graded B, 67.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist. ## Sources - https://www.together.ai/about-us - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vipulved/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ce-zhang-6aa37419/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tri-dao-71544155/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/charleszedlewski/details/experience/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/charleszedlewski/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/percy-liang-717b8a/ - https://www.together.ai/ - https://x.com/togethercompute - https://www.together.ai/support - https://support.together.ai/ These 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.