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  "markdown": "Co-founder; software developer / COO.\n\nIsmail 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.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceylanismail/\n- X: https://x.com/ceylanismail\n\n## What Ismail builds\n\n- [Zeplin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zeplin.md), graded D, 47.6/100, in Design workspaces \u0026 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 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Berk Çebi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/berk-cebi/), Co-founder\n- [Merih Akar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/merih-akar/), Co-founder; developer\n- [Pelin Kenez](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pelin-kenez/), Co-founder and CEO; product designer\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)\n- [Elad Gil](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/elad-gil/)\n- [Mike Maples](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mike-maples/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Ismail Ceylan?\n\nIsmail 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.\n\n### What does Zeplin, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor 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.\n\n### Who has invested in Zeplin, Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name Y Combinator, Elad Gil and Mike Maples.\n\n### How are Ismail's tools graded?\n\nZeplin is graded D, 47.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zeplin\n- https://x.com/pelinkenez\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/64644-ismail-ceylan\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceylanismail/\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/64665-merih-akar\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/merihakar/\n- https://x.com/merihakar\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/15544-berk-%C3%A7ebi\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/berkcebi/\n- https://zeplin.io/\n- https://zeplin.io\n- https://zeplin.io/enterprise/contact-sales/\n- https://support.zeplin.io/en/articles/11559086-zeplin-mcp-server\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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