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  "markdown": "Co-founder, FreeAgent.\n\nEd Molyneux co-founded FreeAgent in Edinburgh in 2007 with Olly Headey and Roan Lavery. The three had worked as freelance designers or developers and built accounting software for small businesses out of frustration with their own bookkeeping.\n\n## What Ed builds\n\n- [FreeAgent API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/freeagent.md), graded C, 57.2/100, in Accounting \u0026 invoicing. REST API for FreeAgent, the UK small-business accounting product owned by NatWest Group. Co-founder, FreeAgent, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Olly Headey](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/olly-headey/), Co-founder, FreeAgent\n- [Roan Lavery](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/roan-lavery/), Co-founder and CEO, FreeAgent\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Lightbank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lightbank/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Ed Molyneux?\n\nEd Molyneux co-founded FreeAgent in Edinburgh in 2007 with Olly Headey and Roan Lavery. The three had worked as freelance designers or developers and built accounting software for small businesses out of frustration with their own bookkeeping.\n\n### What does FreeAgent make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists FreeAgent API from FreeAgent. REST API for FreeAgent, the UK small-business accounting product owned by NatWest Group.\n\n### Who has invested in FreeAgent?\n\nThe sources our research read name Lightbank.\n\n### How are Ed's tools graded?\n\nFreeAgent API is graded C, 57.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://dev.freeagent.com/docs\n- https://www.freeagent.com/company/\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeAgent\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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