Founder of a listed tool
James Hawkins
Co-founder and co-CEO, named behind the PostHog listing on Anchor Terminal.
What James builds
PostHog B · Product analytics & experimentation
PostHog is an open-source product analytics platform with session replay, feature flags, experiments, error tracking and a data warehouse. Agents reach PostHog Cloud through a REST API with a public OpenAPI spec and an official hosted MCP server.
Co-founder and co-CEO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Tim Glaser Co-founder and co-CEO
Backed by
Y Combinator GV Jason Warner (CTO, GitHub) Solomon Hykes (Founder, Docker) Stripe Formus Capital Peak XV Partners
Questions
Who is James Hawkins?
James Hawkins is co-founder and co-CEO of PostHog, a product analytics and data platform from Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch, which launched on Hacker News in 2020 four weeks after the team began writing code. His YC profile lists earlier roles at Arachnys and AML RightSource and studies at the University of Cambridge.
What does PostHog Inc. make?
Anchor Terminal lists PostHog from PostHog Inc.. PostHog is an open-source product analytics platform with session replay, feature flags, experiments, error tracking and a data warehouse. Agents reach PostHog Cloud through a REST API with a public OpenAPI spec and an official hosted MCP server.
Who has invested in PostHog Inc.?
The sources our research read name Y Combinator, GV, Jason Warner (CTO, GitHub), Solomon Hykes (Founder, Docker), Stripe, Formus Capital and Peak XV Partners.
How are James's tools graded?
PostHog is graded B, 68.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (10)
- https://posthog.com/about
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/posthog
- https://x.com/james406
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/400222-tim-glaser
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/timgl
- https://posthog.com/
- https://posthog.com/docs/support-options
- https://posthog.com/handbook/support/support-team
- https://posthog.com/docs/support
- https://posthog.com/talk-to-a-human
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