Founder of a listed tool
Ian Tien
Founder, Mattermost, Inc., named behind the Mattermost listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Ian builds
Mattermost B · Work & productivity
Mattermost is an open-core team chat server from Mattermost, Inc. that its owner hosts, with channels, threads, calls and playbooks. Agents reach it through the REST API v4, bot accounts, personal access tokens, webhooks and an MCP server.
Founder, Mattermost, Inc., researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Backed by
Y Combinator Redpoint Ventures Battery Ventures
Questions
Who is Ian Tien?
Ian Tien is co-founder and CEO of Mattermost, a secure collaboration platform for national security and critical infrastructure organisations, from Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch. He was previously a product leader for Microsoft Office and OneDrive and holds a dozen patents in Microsoft technologies. He has engineering degrees from Waterloo and Cornell and a Stanford MBA.
What does Mattermost, Inc. make?
Anchor Terminal lists Mattermost from Mattermost, Inc.. Mattermost is an open-core team chat server from Mattermost, Inc. that its owner hosts, with channels, threads, calls and playbooks. Agents reach it through the REST API v4, bot accounts, personal access tokens, webhooks and an MCP server.
Who has invested in Mattermost, Inc.?
The sources our research read name Y Combinator, Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures.
How are Ian's tools graded?
Mattermost is graded B, 66 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
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