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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO.\n\nJessie Frazelle co-founded KittyCAD, now Zoo, in 2021 with Jenna Bryant and Jordan Noone, and became its CEO in December 2022, taking over from Noone. She wrote the launch post for Text-to-CAD in December 2023.\n\n## What Jessie builds\n\n- [Zoo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoo.md), graded C, 58.7/100, in CAD, engineering \u0026 fabrication. Zoo is a hosted CAD platform from Zoo Corporation with a REST API, the Zookeeper design agent over a websocket, file conversion and analysis endpoints, a CLI and a local MCP server, all built on its KCL modelling language. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-11-03.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Jenna Bryant](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jenna-bryant/), Co-founder\n- [Jordan Noone](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jordan-noone/), Co-founder and Executive Chairman\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Embedded Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/embedded-ventures/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Jessie Frazelle?\n\nJessie Frazelle co-founded KittyCAD, now Zoo, in 2021 with Jenna Bryant and Jordan Noone, and became its CEO in December 2022, taking over from Noone. She wrote the launch post for Text-to-CAD in December 2023.\n\n### What does Zoo Corporation make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Zoo from Zoo Corporation. Zoo is a hosted CAD platform from Zoo Corporation with a REST API, the Zookeeper design agent over a websocket, file conversion and analysis endpoints, a CLI and a local MCP server, all built on its KCL modelling language.\n\n### Who has invested in Zoo Corporation?\n\nThe sources our research read name Embedded Ventures.\n\n### How are Jessie's tools graded?\n\nZoo is graded C, 58.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://zoo.dev/blog/introducing-kittycad\n- https://zoo.dev/blog/stepping-into-ceo\n- https://zoo.dev/blog/introducing-text-to-cad\n- https://zoo.dev/press\n- https://zoo.dev/terms-and-conditions\n- https://zoo.dev/\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KittyCAD/.github/main/profile/README.md\n- https://status.zoo.dev/\n- https://zoo.dev/.well-known/security.txt\n- https://www.embedded.ventures/\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. If a page is about you, link your account from it to write the about and set the links yourself. For a photo, a correction or to have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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