Founder of a listed tool
Benjamin Haynes
Founder and CEO, named behind the Directus listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Benjamin builds
Directus B · CMS & website publishing
Directus is a source-available headless CMS and data platform that runs on an SQL database, self-hosted or on a paid cloud. Agents manage items, files and the data model through REST, GraphQL and a built-in MCP server.
Founder and CEO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Rijk van Zanten Co-founder and CTO
Backed by
Handshake Ventures True Ventures F-Prime Capital Eight Roads Preston-Werner Ventures
Questions
Who is Benjamin Haynes?
Benjamin Haynes is founder and CEO of Directus, the open-source data platform. He says Directus began in 2004 inside a development agency later formalised as RANGER Studio. He held a leadership role at Verizon/AOL from 2015 before leaving to work on Directus full time with Rijk van Zanten.
What does Monospace Inc. (Directus) make?
Anchor Terminal lists Directus from Monospace Inc. (Directus). Directus is a source-available headless CMS and data platform that runs on an SQL database, self-hosted or on a paid cloud. Agents manage items, files and the data model through REST, GraphQL and a built-in MCP server.
Who has invested in Monospace Inc. (Directus)?
The sources our research read name Handshake Ventures, True Ventures, F-Prime Capital, Eight Roads and Preston-Werner Ventures.
How are Benjamin's tools graded?
Directus is graded B, 67.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
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