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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CTO.\n\nBryan Helmig co-founded Zapier in 2011 with Wade Foster and Mike Knoop and is its chief technology officer. He and Foster were colleagues at Veterans United Home Loans when they started building the integration tool that became Zapier, and he went full time on it in April 2012.\n\n## What Bryan builds\n\n- [Zapier MCP (agent actions)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zapier-mcp.md), graded C, 58.2/100, in Agent tool access. Hosted MCP server that lets agents discover and run actions across apps connected to the user's Zapier account. Co-founder and CTO, researched 2026-10-29.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Mike Knoop](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mike-knoop/), Co-founder\n- [Wade Foster](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/wade-foster/), Co-founder and CEO\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)\n- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bessemer-venture-partners/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Bryan Helmig?\n\nBryan Helmig co-founded Zapier in 2011 with Wade Foster and Mike Knoop and is its chief technology officer. He and Foster were colleagues at Veterans United Home Loans when they started building the integration tool that became Zapier, and he went full time on it in April 2012.\n\n### What does Zapier make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Zapier MCP (agent actions) from Zapier. Hosted MCP server that lets agents discover and run actions across apps connected to the user's Zapier account.\n\n### Who has invested in Zapier?\n\nThe sources our research read name Y Combinator and Bessemer Venture Partners.\n\n### How are Bryan's tools graded?\n\nZapier MCP (agent actions) is graded C, 58.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zapier\n- https://zapier.com/\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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