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  "markdown": "Co-founder and board member.\n\nAsaf Cohen co-founded Permit.io with Or Weis after working as a software engineer at Facebook and Microsoft, and was its chief technology officer. Permit.io's about page now lists him as a board member.\n\n## What Asaf builds\n\n- [Permit MCP Gateway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/permit-mcp-gateway.md), graded C, 54.3/100, in Human approval \u0026 handoff. Hosted proxy between MCP clients and MCP servers that signs in the human behind the agent, checks each tool call against Permit.io policy and logs it. Co-founder and board member, researched 2026-10-29.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Or Weis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/or-weis/), Co-founder and CEO\n- [Zeev Manilovich](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zeev-manilovich/), VP of Engineering\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Scale Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/scale-venture-partners/)\n- [NFX](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nfx/)\n- [Rainfall Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/rainfall-ventures/)\n- [Firestreak Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/firestreak-ventures/)\n- [Verissimo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/verissimo/)\n- [97212 Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/97212-ventures/)\n- [Roosh Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/roosh-ventures/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Asaf Cohen?\n\nAsaf Cohen co-founded Permit.io with Or Weis after working as a software engineer at Facebook and Microsoft, and was its chief technology officer. Permit.io's about page now lists him as a board member.\n\n### What does Permit.io make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Permit MCP Gateway from Permit.io. Hosted proxy between MCP clients and MCP servers that signs in the human behind the agent, checks each tool call against Permit.io policy and logs it.\n\n### Who has invested in Permit.io?\n\nThe sources our research read name Scale Venture Partners, NFX, Rainfall Ventures, Firestreak Ventures, Verissimo, 97212 Ventures and Roosh Ventures.\n\n### How are Asaf's tools graded?\n\nPermit MCP Gateway is graded C, 54.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.permit.io/about\n- https://www.permit.io/\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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