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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CTO.\n\nChris Bell is co-founder and CTO of Knock and leads its engineering, including the APIs, infrastructure and developer tools customers use to build and run messaging. He worked with Sam Seely at Frame.io before they founded Knock in 2021.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbell88\n\n## What Chris builds\n\n- [Knock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/knock.md), graded B, 66.7/100, in Notifications. Notification workflow API. Co-founder and CTO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Sam Seely](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sam-seely/), Co-founder and CEO\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Craft Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/craft-ventures/)\n- [Afore Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/afore-capital/)\n- [Expa](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/expa/)\n- [Exponent Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/exponent-capital/)\n- [Preface Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/preface-ventures/)\n- [Tokyo Black](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tokyo-black/)\n- [Worklife Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/worklife-ventures/)\n- [Adam Gross (CEO Vimeo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/adam-gross-ceo-vimeo/)\n- [Guillermo Rauch (CEO Vercel)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/guillermo-rauch-ceo-vercel/)\n- [John Kodumal (CTO LaunchDarkly)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/john-kodumal-cto-launchdarkly/)\n- [Michael Grinich (CEO WorkOS)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/michael-grinich-ceo-workos/)\n- [Scott Belsky (CPO Adobe)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/scott-belsky-cpo-adobe/)\n- [Thomas Paul Mann (CEO Raycast)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/thomas-paul-mann-ceo-raycast/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Chris Bell?\n\nChris Bell is co-founder and CTO of Knock and leads its engineering, including the APIs, infrastructure and developer tools customers use to build and run messaging. He worked with Sam Seely at Frame.io before they founded Knock in 2021.\n\n### What does Knock make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Knock from Knock. Notification workflow API.\n\n### Who has invested in Knock?\n\nThe sources our research read name Craft Ventures, Afore Capital, Expa, Exponent Capital, Preface Ventures, Tokyo Black, Worklife Ventures, Adam Gross (CEO Vimeo), Guillermo Rauch (CEO Vercel), John Kodumal (CTO LaunchDarkly), Michael Grinich (CEO WorkOS), Scott Belsky (CPO Adobe) and Thomas Paul Mann (CEO Raycast).\n\n### How are Chris's tools graded?\n\nKnock is graded B, 66.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-seely-669128a/details/experience/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-seely-669128a\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbell88/details/experience/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbell88\n- https://knock.app/\n- https://knock.app\n- https://docs.knock.app\n- https://knock.app/pricing\n- https://knock.app/contact-sales\n- https://knock.app/about\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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