Founder of a listed tool
Gideon Mendels
Co-founder and CEO, named behind the Opik API + MCP listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Gideon builds
Opik API + MCP BB · Agent observability & evals
Opik is Comet's open-source platform for tracing, evaluating and optimising LLM apps and agents, under Apache-2.0. It runs self-hosted or on Comet's Opik Cloud, with a REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs and a hosted MCP server.
Co-founder and CEO, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Jacques Verré Head of Product
- Nimrod Lahav Co-founder and CTO
Backed by
Trilogy Equity Partners Two Sigma Ventures Founders' Co-op Scale Venture Partners OpenView
Questions
Who is Gideon Mendels?
Gideon Mendels is co-founder and CEO of Comet, which launched in 2017 and makes Opik, an open-source platform for tracing and evaluating AI applications. He previously co-founded GroupWize, which trained and deployed NLP models on chat data, and worked on hate speech and deception detection at Columbia University and Google.
What does Comet make?
Anchor Terminal lists Opik API + MCP from Comet. Opik is Comet's open-source platform for tracing, evaluating and optimising LLM apps and agents, under Apache-2.0. It runs self-hosted or on Comet's Opik Cloud, with a REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs and a hosted MCP server.
Who has invested in Comet?
The sources our research read name Trilogy Equity Partners, Two Sigma Ventures, Founders' Co-op, Scale Venture Partners and OpenView.
How are Gideon's tools graded?
Opik API + MCP is graded BB, 71.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
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