{ "data": null, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jake-cooper/", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jake-cooper/index.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jake-cooper/index.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jake-cooper/index.min.md" }, "markdown": "Founder and CEO, Railway.\n\nJake Cooper is Railway's CEO. In the company's Series A announcement he wrote that the team started Railway in 2020 so engineers could deploy code without managing servers, and he announced its $100M Series B in January 2026.\n\n## What Jake builds\n\n- [Railway MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/railway-mcp-server.md), graded C, 56.7/100, in Cloud \u0026 infrastructure. Railway's official MCP server is hosted at mcp.railway.com. It lets an agent list and create projects, redeploy services, manage feature flags and hand multi-step work to Railway's own agent, through OAuth or the Railway CLI. Founder and CEO, Railway, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Redpoint Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/redpoint-ventures/)\n- [Unusual Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/unusual-ventures/)\n- [LGF](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lgf/)\n- [TQ Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tq-ventures/)\n- [FPV Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/fpv-ventures/)\n- [Basecamp Fund](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/basecamp-fund/)\n- [Tom Preston-Werner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tom-preston-werner/)\n- [Calvin French-Owen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/calvin-french-owen/)\n- [Olivier Pomel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/olivier-pomel/)\n- [Jake King](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jake-king/)\n- [Zain Allarakhia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/zain-allarakhia/)\n- [Charlie Cheever](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/charlie-cheever/)\n- [Jason Warner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jason-warner/)\n- [Daniel Gross](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/daniel-gross/)\n- [Guillermo Rauch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/guillermo-rauch/)\n- [Harley Finkelstein](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/harley-finkelstein/)\n- [Matt Klein](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/matt-klein/)\n- [Spencer Kimball](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/spencer-kimball/)\n- [Brandon Chu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/brandon-chu/)\n- [Justin Gage](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/justin-gage/)\n- [Jori Lallo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jori-lallo/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Jake Cooper?\n\nJake Cooper is Railway's CEO. In the company's Series A announcement he wrote that the team started Railway in 2020 so engineers could deploy code without managing servers, and he announced its $100M Series B in January 2026.\n\n### What does Railway Corporation make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Railway MCP Server from Railway Corporation. Railway's official MCP server is hosted at mcp.railway.com. It lets an agent list and create projects, redeploy services, manage feature flags and hand multi-step work to Railway's own agent, through OAuth or the Railway CLI.\n\n### Who has invested in Railway Corporation?\n\nThe sources our research read name Redpoint Ventures, Unusual Ventures, LGF, TQ Ventures, FPV Ventures, Basecamp Fund, Tom Preston-Werner, Calvin French-Owen, Olivier Pomel, Jake King, Zain Allarakhia, Charlie Cheever, Jason Warner, Daniel Gross, Guillermo Rauch, Harley Finkelstein, Matt Klein, Spencer Kimball, Brandon Chu, Justin Gage and Jori Lallo.\n\n### How are Jake's tools graded?\n\nRailway MCP Server is graded C, 56.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://railway.com/about\n- https://blog.railway.com/p/series-a\n- https://blog.railway.com/p/series-b\n- https://railway.com/changelog/2026-01-23-100m-series-b\n- https://blog.railway.com/p/railway-mcp-server\n- https://docs.railway.com/ai/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. 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