# Jiten Vaidya (slim)

> Jiten Vaidya is co-founder of PlanetScale. PlanetScale MCP Server on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder, PlanetScale.

Jiten 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.

## What Jiten builds

- [PlanetScale MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/planetscale-mcp.md), graded B, 66.6/100, in Databases & 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.

## Works with

- [Mike Coutermarsh](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mike-coutermarsh/), Software Engineer; PlanetScale MCP launch author

## Backed by

- [Kleiner Perkins](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kleiner-perkins/)
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andreessen-horowitz/)
- [SignalFire](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/signalfire/)
- [Insight Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/insight-partners/)
- [Tom Preston-Werner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tom-preston-werner/)
- [Jack Altman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jack-altman/)
- [Max Mullen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/max-mullen/)

## Questions

### Who is Jiten Vaidya?

Jiten 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.

### What does PlanetScale make?

Anchor Terminal lists PlanetScale MCP Server from PlanetScale.

### Who has invested in PlanetScale?

The sources our research read name Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, SignalFire, Insight Partners, Tom Preston-Werner, Jack Altman and Max Mullen.

### How are Jiten's tools graded?

PlanetScale MCP Server is graded B, 66.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-planetscale-mcp-server
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/coutermarsh/details/experience/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/coutermarsh
- https://planetscale.com/
- https://planetscale.com
- https://planetscale.com/about
- https://support.planetscale.com/hc/en-us/articles/8098742206999-Working-with-the-PlanetScale-Support-team
- https://planetscale.com/docs/support/
- https://planetscale.com/blog/new-ceo-of-planetscale

These 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.