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DevTools Founder Directory

Founders creating developer tools and infrastructure products.

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John Coogan
@johncoogan

Co-founder of TBPN, hosting technology's daily show live weekdays. Previously EIR at Founders Fund and co-founder of Lucy.

Founder
131 VCs
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Zachary Perret
@zachperret

Co-founder and CEO of Plaid, a fintech infrastructure company. Previously worked as an associate at Bain & Company. Also co-founded Mischief in 2020.

FundedWeb3
125 VCs
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Karri Saarinen
@karrisaarinen

Former Principal Designer at Airbnb and Head of Design at Coinbase, now co-founder and CEO of Linear, a project management and issue tracking tool for software teams.

Web3TechnicalDesignProductBizDev
91 VCs
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Anton Osika
@antonosika

Physics background turned repeat founder. Previously CTO & Co-Founder at Depict.ai, now Co-Founder at Lovable building "the last piece of software."

TechnicalResearch
86 VCs
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Yishan
@yishan

Former CEO of Reddit (2012-2014), now CEO of Terraformation, a company focused on forest restoration and carbon capture. Also co-founder and director at Sunfire Offices since 2010.

TechnicalResearch
79 VCs
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Zain Shah
@zan2434

Senior Software Engineer at Doppel, now Fellow at South Park Commons working on something new. Previously worked at Brex.

FundedTechnical
37 VCs
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Ryan Daniels
@ryanjdaniels

Former General Counsel at A.Team, then Entrepreneur in Residence at Bain Capital Ventures. Now co-founder of Crosby, focused on helping close deals faster.

Legal
35 VCs
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Rishab Hegde
@rishab_hegde

YC alum and former Director of Product at Rippling, where he previously led engineering for spend management and worked as a product lead. Now building Inject Magic.

Web3TechnicalProduct
32 VCs
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Brexton
@brexton

Co-founder & CEO at Ohara, building a unified interface for coding agents described as "homebrew for coding agents." Also co-founded ModuAI and has been an Angel Track participant at First Round Capital since 2020.

Technical
30 VCs
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Blake Anderson
@blakeandersonw

Serial entrepreneur currently co-founding multiple AI-focused startups including 10x, Cal AI, and Umax. Building AI applications across different verticals.

Technical
27 VCs
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