Founders in San Francisco, CA building Developer Tools

116 founders in San Francisco, CA and building Developer Tools, with company, funding, and investor detail. Includes Blacksmith and Postman.

Founders in San Francisco, CA and building Developer Tools (139)

Founders in San Francisco, CA and building Developer Tools covers 139 founders on Twilio, Algolia and Anysphere and 116 other companies. The most common sector is Developer Tools (139). Companies represented include Anysphere (Cursor), Anything, Arcade, Cognition, Cortex, Figma, incident.io, PostHog, Postman, Pythagora, Realm and Retool, plus 104 more. Every founder below links to a profile with their company, backers, and the filings behind each round.

Founders listed: 139
Companies represented: 119
Top sector: Developer Tools (139 founders)
Top location: San Francisco, CA (139 founders)

Aayush Shah — Blacksmith
Abhijit Kane — Postman
Abhinav Asthana — Postman
Abhishek Bansal — Hasura
Abhishek Kumar — Refold (formerly Cobalt)
Adam Fish — Ditto
Aiswarya Sankar — Entelligence AI
Alexander Gallego — Redpanda Data
Alex Marantelos — Intryc
Aman Sanger — Anysphere
Aman Sanger — Anysphere (Cursor)
Amartya Jha — CodeAnt AI
Anand Kulkarni — CoreStory
Andrew Benton — Riza
Andrew Firestone — Mermaid Chart
Andrew Hong — Dashbot
Andy Lee — Deeptrace
Anil Varanasi — Meter
Anish Dhar — Cortex
Antony Samuel — Artifact
Ariel Tseitlin — Grepr
Artem Golubev — testRigor
Artyom Keydunov — Cube Dev
Asim Shrestha — Reworkd
Ben Emmrich — Tusk
Bernadette Nixon — Algolia
Caroline Clark — Arcade
Chad Sanderson — Gable
Charlie Deane — Composite
Chetan Sharma — Eppo
Christian Mathiesen — Frigade
Christine Yen — Honeycomb
Craig Soules — Springtail
Daksh Gupta — Greptile
Daniel Dhawan — Rork
Daniel Mason — Anon
Dani Grant — Jam
Dario Calvo — Weights & Biases
Dave Riesenberg — HashiCorp
David D. Jones — Unity Software
David Helgason — Unity Software
David Helgason — Unity Technologies
David Hsu — Retool
Dhruv Amin — Anything
Dylan Fields — Figma
Elise Voss — Realm
Eric Simons — Stackblitz
Evan Kaplan — InfluxData
Evan Owen — Glue
Fernando Miranda — Neon
Finn Bauer — kapa.ai
Florian Forster — ZITADEL
Frank Vella — Rill Data
Furqan Rydhan — Spindl
Furqan Rydhan — thirdweb
Gal Vered — Checksum
Guillermo Rauch — Vercel
Hahnbee Lee — Mintlify
Hunter Brooks — Ellipsis
Ilya Grigorik — Segment
Ishraq Khan — Kodezi
Jacob Eiting — RevenueCat
Jake Stauch — Serval
James Hawkins — PostHog
James Perkins — Unkey
Jan Schnyder — nunu.ai
Jarred Sumner — Bun
Jason Warner — Hex
Jeff Lawson — Twilio Inc
Jeff Lawson — Twilio
Joao Moura — CrewAI
John A. Mutch — Clustrix
John Dick — Daily.co
John Dorsey — Twilio
Jon Morehouse — Nuon
Jon Noronha — Gamma
Julian Park — Bezi
Jyoti Bansal — AppDynamics
Jyoti Bansal — Harness
Kayvon Beykpour — Macroscope
Kevin Chou — Caldera
Kevin Tse — Hegel AI
Konrad Kalcewicz — Twilio
Landseer Enga — Revyl
Leon Ostrez — Pythagora
Liz Young — Realm
Luca Maraschi — Platformatic
Mahyar Raissi — Quo
Marcus Lowe — Anything
Mariam Naficy — Arcade
Martin Mignot — Twilio
Matas Mikolaitis — incident.io
Matt Biilmann — Netlify
Matthias Wagner — Flux
Max Altschuler — Openmart
Max Brodeur-Urbas — Gumloop
Max Prilutskiy — Lingo.dev
Mehdi Osman — OpenReplay
Merrill Lutsky — Graphite
Michael Anderson — Factory
Michael Grinich — WorkOS
Michael Mignano — Builder.io
Michael Truell — Anysphere
Michael Truell — Anysphere (Cursor)
Michael Witte — Nylas
Miten Sampat — LambdaTest
Nikhil Basu Trivedi — Glide
Nikhil Unni — Cortex
Nithin Michael — Skyramp
Noam Bardin — PostHog
Omer Aplak — Refine
Onyx Founders — Onyx
Patrick Collison — Twilio
Paul Klein IV — Retool
Prithvi Ramakrishnan — Promptless
Sagar Batchu — Speakeasy
Sandeep Nailwal — Metaplex
Sandy Carter — Unstoppable Domains
Saoud Rizwan — Cline
Sara Nozkova — Flox
Saul Klein — Figma
Serene Almomen — Attune
Shuai Guan — Thunderbit
Sohrab Haghighat — Hestus
Stephen Lynch — Algolia
Stephen Whitworth — incident.io
Suhail Doshi — Rill Data
Takuya Goto — AssetHub
Tamas Cser — Functionize
Tomasz Tunguz — Rasa
Tom Medema — Bubbles
Tonic AI — Tonic AI
Trent McConaghy — Cognition
Varun Banka — Atlan
Vlad Ionescu — Earthly Technologies
Walden Yan — Cognition
Xiaoyin Qu — Heyboss.xyz
Zeger-Jan Weg — FlowFuse
Zvonimir Sabljic — Pythagora

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