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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO.\n\nEnes Akar co-founded Upstash with Mehmet Dogan and Bilal, building serverless data services for developers. The team launched Upstash Redis in 2021, followed by a Kafka service, the QStash messaging queue and, in 2024, Upstash Vector, the year Andreessen Horowitz led a $10M investment in the company.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/enesakar/\n\n## What Enes builds\n\n- [Context7](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/context7.md), graded BB, 71.4/100, in Code \u0026 developer platforms. Serves up-to-date, version-specific library documentation and code examples into agent prompts via two tools (resolve-library-id, query-docs). Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-28.\n- [Upstash QStash](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/upstash-qstash.md), graded BB, 72.3/100, in Event delivery \u0026 webhooks. Upstash QStash is a hosted HTTP message queue and scheduler. A caller publishes a request to its REST API, and QStash sends it to a public URL with retries, delays, cron schedules, FIFO queues and signed requests. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-28.\n- [Upstash Vector API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/upstash-vector.md), graded B, 62.4/100, in Retrieval \u0026 vector search. Serverless vector database billed per request. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Abdullah Enes Güleş](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/abdullah-enes-gules/), Software Engineer, Context7\n- [Bilal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/bilal/), Co-founder\n- [Mehmet Dogan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mehmet-dogan/), Co-founder\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andreessen-horowitz/)\n- [Mango Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mango-capital/)\n- [AngelList](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/angellist/)\n- [ScaleX Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/scalex-ventures/)\n- [Bek Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bek-ventures/)\n- [Guillermo Rauch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/guillermo-rauch/)\n- [Matias Woloski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/matias-woloski/)\n- [Max Stoiber](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/max-stoiber/)\n- [Naval Ravikant](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/naval-ravikant/)\n- [Nuno Job](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nuno-job/)\n- [Andreas Klinger](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andreas-klinger/)\n- [Joseph Abebe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/joseph-abebe/)\n- [Martin Gontovnikas](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/martin-gontovnikas/)\n- [Jeff Fagnan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jeff-fagnan/)\n- [Jake Zeller](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jake-zeller/)\n- [Morgan Dioli](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/morgan-dioli/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Enes Akar?\n\nEnes Akar co-founded Upstash with Mehmet Dogan and Bilal, building serverless data services for developers. The team launched Upstash Redis in 2021, followed by a Kafka service, the QStash messaging queue and, in 2024, Upstash Vector, the year Andreessen Horowitz led a $10M investment in the company.\n\n### What does Upstash make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Context7, Upstash QStash and Upstash Vector API + MCP from Upstash. Serves up-to-date, version-specific library documentation and code examples into agent prompts via two tools (resolve-library-id, query-docs).\n\n### Who has invested in Upstash?\n\nThe sources our research read name Andreessen Horowitz, Mango Capital, AngelList, ScaleX Ventures, Bek Ventures, Guillermo Rauch, Matias Woloski, Max Stoiber, Naval Ravikant, Nuno Job, Andreas Klinger, Joseph Abebe, Martin Gontovnikas, Jeff Fagnan, Jake Zeller and Morgan Dioli.\n\n### How are Enes's tools graded?\n\nContext7 is graded BB, 71.4 out of 100; Upstash QStash is graded BB, 72.3 out of 100; Upstash Vector API + MCP is graded B, 62.4 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/abdullah-enes-gules/\n- https://context7.com/about\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/elifnurdeniz/\n- https://upstash.com/blog/story-of-upstash\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/enesakar/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehmetdogan/\n- https://context7.com/\n- https://context7.com/contact\n- https://upstash.com/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/enesakar\n- https://upstash.com/contact\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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