Founders in San Francisco building Developer Tools (2026)

Verified founders in San Francisco and building Developer Tools — companies, funding raised, and investors.

Founders in San Francisco and building Developer Tools (142)

Founders in San Francisco and building Developer Tools covers 142 founders on Twilio, Algolia and Anysphere and 118 other companies. The most common sector is Developer Tools (142). Members are based in 4 cities, led by San Francisco, CA (138), San Francisco, United States (2) and San Francisco (1). Companies represented include Anysphere (Cursor), Anything, Arcade, Cognition, Cortex, Figma, Flox, incident.io, PostHog, Postman, Pythagora and Realm, plus 106 more. Every founder below links to a profile with their company, backers, and the filings behind each round.

Founders listed: 142
Companies represented: 121
Top sector: Developer Tools (142 founders)
Top location: San Francisco, CA (138 founders)
Locations represented: 4

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 — Bolt.new
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
Gary Ling — ROVR
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
Jeff Lawson — Twilio Inc
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)
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 Copplestone — Supabase
Paul Klein IV — Retool
Prithvi Ramakrishnan — Promptless
Ron Efroni — Flox
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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