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  "markdown": "Co-founder, PlanetScale.\n\nJiten Vaidya co-founded PlanetScale in 2018 and was its CEO until July 2021, when he handed the role to Sam Lambert and became Chief Strategy Officer while staying on the board. PlanetScale says it was founded by co-creators and maintainers of the Vitess open-source project.\n\n## What Jiten builds\n\n- [PlanetScale MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/planetscale-mcp.md), graded B, 66.6/100, in Databases \u0026 files. PlanetScale's hosted MCP server connects agents to PlanetScale Postgres, Vitess and Neki databases. Its 25 tools cover organisations, branches, schema, read and write SQL, Insights data, Postgres logs, invoices and documentation search, with OAuth or a service token. Co-founder, PlanetScale, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Mike Coutermarsh](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mike-coutermarsh/), Software Engineer; PlanetScale MCP launch author\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Kleiner Perkins](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kleiner-perkins/)\n- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andreessen-horowitz/)\n- [SignalFire](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/signalfire/)\n- [Insight Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/insight-partners/)\n- [Tom Preston-Werner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tom-preston-werner/)\n- [Jack Altman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jack-altman/)\n- [Max Mullen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/max-mullen/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Jiten Vaidya?\n\nJiten Vaidya co-founded PlanetScale in 2018 and was its CEO until July 2021, when he handed the role to Sam Lambert and became Chief Strategy Officer while staying on the board. PlanetScale says it was founded by co-creators and maintainers of the Vitess open-source project.\n\n### What does PlanetScale make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists PlanetScale MCP Server from PlanetScale. PlanetScale's hosted MCP server connects agents to PlanetScale Postgres, Vitess and Neki databases. Its 25 tools cover organisations, branches, schema, read and write SQL, Insights data, Postgres logs, invoices and documentation search, with OAuth or a service token.\n\n### Who has invested in PlanetScale?\n\nThe sources our research read name Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, SignalFire, Insight Partners, Tom Preston-Werner, Jack Altman and Max Mullen.\n\n### How are Jiten's tools graded?\n\nPlanetScale MCP Server is graded B, 66.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-planetscale-mcp-server\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/coutermarsh/details/experience/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/coutermarsh\n- https://planetscale.com/\n- https://planetscale.com\n- https://planetscale.com/about\n- https://support.planetscale.com/hc/en-us/articles/8098742206999-Working-with-the-PlanetScale-Support-team\n- https://planetscale.com/docs/support/\n- https://planetscale.com/blog/new-ceo-of-planetscale\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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