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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Pylon.\n\nAdvith Chelikani co-founded Pylon with Robert Eng, whom he met at Caltech, and Marty Kausas, whom they met through the Kleiner Perkins Fellowship. He worked as a software engineer before starting the company.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/advith/\n\n## What Advith builds\n\n- [Pylon API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pylon.md), graded C, 54.4/100, in Customer support \u0026 helpdesk. B2B support platform built around Slack, Teams and email channels, with a REST API over issues, accounts, contacts and messages, and an official hosted MCP server with 90 tools. Co-founder, Pylon, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Marty Kausas](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/marty-kausas/), Co-founder and CEO, Pylon\n- [Robert Eng](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/robert-eng/), Co-founder, Pylon\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)\n- [General Catalyst](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/general-catalyst/)\n- [Horizon VC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/horizon-vc/)\n- [AirAngels](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/airangels/)\n- [Comma Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/comma-capital/)\n- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andreessen-horowitz/)\n- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bain-capital-ventures/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Advith Chelikani?\n\nAdvith Chelikani co-founded Pylon with Robert Eng, whom he met at Caltech, and Marty Kausas, whom they met through the Kleiner Perkins Fellowship. He worked as a software engineer before starting the company.\n\n### What does Pylon make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Pylon API + MCP from Pylon. B2B support platform built around Slack, Teams and email channels, with a REST API over issues, accounts, contacts and messages, and an official hosted MCP server with 90 tools.\n\n### Who has invested in Pylon?\n\nThe sources our research read name Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Horizon VC, AirAngels, Comma Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Bain Capital Ventures.\n\n### How are Advith's tools graded?\n\nPylon API + MCP is graded C, 54.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.usepylon.com/\n- https://www.usepylon.com/about\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pylon-2\n\nThese 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. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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