Anon, a developer platform empowering secure AI access and control to user accounts online, announced $6.5 million in funding and a powerful toolkit that unlocks the full potential of AI applications. Driven by investment from Union Square Ventures and Abstract Ventures (seed lead investors) and early support from Impatient Ventures and ex/ante (pre-seed lead investors), Anon is prepared to transform how developers build and deploy AI. Strategic angel investors in the round include Ryan Hoover (founder of Product Hunt), Gokul Rajaram (early Google, Square, and Doordash), Scott Belsky (founder of Behance and CPO at Adobe), and Amjad Masad (co-founder/CEO at Replit).
The current implementation of AI applications is plagued by a major bottleneck: authentication. A lack of available APIs for most sites limits the immense value AI could yield for end-users. Anon eliminates this barrier through a comprehensive developer toolkit. By enabling developers to create mini virtual assistants for specific tasks, Anon will enhance how users delegate their digital lives.
So far, Anon worked with leading AI companies like MultiOn, Delphi, and Personal.ai. And the company will continue providing interoperability for AI companies. However, as AI becomes embedded into the internet more broadly, Anon’s mission-set will expand.
The team is already working with companies building CRMs to auto-record LinkedIn messages sent to candidates and sales teams for aggregating orders via WhatsApp, personal assistant applications to buy items, and book travel and table reservations on Amazon, Uber, OpenTable, and more. This end market for Anon encompasses the entire universe of AI-powered actions, which will reduce friction and improve automation across the internet.
Anon was launched by Daniel Mason and Kai Aichholz. Mason was previously a Partner at Framework Ventures and co-founded Spring Labs, a $300 million Series B data security and identity company. Aichholz was previously CTO at Alaffia Health, an AI/ML health tech startup, and worked at Amazon and Goldman Sachs after graduating from MIT.
KEY QUOTES:
“There are so many AI developers building game-changing applications that are limited by authentication. We see Anon as critical infrastructure that doesn’t involve AI itself but unlocks tremendous value for our customers.”
- Daniel Mason, Anon’s Co-Founder & CEO
“At USV, we have long believed in the transformative potential of AI agents and bots to revolutionize how we interact with technology. Anon is building the identity layer necessary to make this vision a reality, enabling developers to create AI applications that can seamlessly take action on behalf of users across the internet.”
- Nick Grossman, General Partner at Union Square Ventures
