Founder of a listed tool
Ismail Ceylan
Co-founder; software developer / COO, named behind the Zeplin listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Ismail builds
Zeplin D · Design workspaces & canvases
Design handoff platform from Zeplin, Inc. where teams publish finished screens, components and design tokens. Its REST API and webhooks read and partly edit that data, and an official local MCP server gives coding agents screen and component specifications.
Co-founder; software developer / COO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Berk Çebi Co-founder
- Merih Akar Co-founder; developer
- Pelin Kenez Co-founder and CEO; product designer
Backed by
Y Combinator Elad Gil Mike Maples
Questions
Who is Ismail Ceylan?
Ismail Ceylan co-founded Zeplin, a design delivery platform from Y Combinator's Summer 2015 batch, where he is COO. His Y Combinator profile lists earlier work at joiz, SumUp, Commencis, Pozitron and Profilo Telekom, and study at Isik University and Universitat Politècnica de València.
What does Zeplin, Inc. make?
Anchor Terminal lists Zeplin from Zeplin, Inc.. Design handoff platform from Zeplin, Inc. where teams publish finished screens, components and design tokens. Its REST API and webhooks read and partly edit that data, and an official local MCP server gives coding agents screen and component specifications.
Who has invested in Zeplin, Inc.?
The sources our research read name Y Combinator, Elad Gil and Mike Maples.
How are Ismail's tools graded?
Zeplin is graded D, 47.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (13)
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zeplin
- https://x.com/pelinkenez
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/64644-ismail-ceylan
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceylanismail/
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/64665-merih-akar
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/merihakar/
- https://x.com/merihakar
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/15544-berk-%C3%A7ebi
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/berkcebi/
- https://zeplin.io/
- https://zeplin.io
- https://zeplin.io/enterprise/contact-sales/
- https://support.zeplin.io/en/articles/11559086-zeplin-mcp-server
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