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  "markdown": "Founder and CEO.\n\nBenjamin 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.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/contactbenhaynes\n\n## What Benjamin builds\n\n- [Directus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus.md), graded B, 67.2/100, in CMS \u0026 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 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Rijk van Zanten](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/rijk-van-zanten/), Co-founder and CTO\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Handshake Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/handshake-ventures/)\n- [True Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/true-ventures/)\n- [F-Prime Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/f-prime-capital/)\n- [Eight Roads](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/eight-roads/)\n- [Preston-Werner Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/preston-werner-ventures/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Benjamin Haynes?\n\nBenjamin 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.\n\n### What does Monospace Inc. (Directus) make?\n\nAnchor 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.\n\n### Who has invested in Monospace Inc. (Directus)?\n\nThe sources our research read name Handshake Ventures, True Ventures, F-Prime Capital, Eight Roads and Preston-Werner Ventures.\n\n### How are Benjamin's tools graded?\n\nDirectus is graded B, 67.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://directus.com/about\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/contactbenhaynes\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rijkvanzanten\n- https://www.linkedin.com/company/directus-io/\n- https://directus.com\n- https://directus.com/support\n- https://directus.com/contact\n- https://directus.com/docs\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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