# Martin Dougiamas (slim)

> Martin Dougiamas is founder and Chairperson. Moodle on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Founder and Chairperson.

Martin Dougiamas founded Moodle, whose first release was 1.0 on 20 August 2002, and chairs the board of Moodle Pty Ltd.

## What Martin builds

- [Moodle](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/moodle.md), graded B, 67.7/100, in Learning, tutoring & assessment. Moodle is an open-source learning management system that schools and companies run themselves or through MoodleCloud. Its web services expose 800 functions for courses, quizzes, assignments and grades, and Moodle 5.3 adds a scoped REST API with personal access tokens. Founder and Chairperson, researched 2026-11-03.

## Works with

- [Marie Achour](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/marie-achour/), Chief Product Officer
- [Scott Anderberg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/scott-anderberg/), Chief Executive Officer

## Backed by

- [Education For The Many](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/education-for-the-many/)

## Questions

### Who is Martin Dougiamas?

Martin Dougiamas founded Moodle, whose first release was 1.0 on 20 August 2002, and chairs the board of Moodle Pty Ltd.

### What does Moodle Pty Ltd make?

Anchor Terminal lists Moodle from Moodle Pty Ltd.

### Who has invested in Moodle Pty Ltd?

The sources our research read name Education For The Many.

### How are Martin's tools graded?

Moodle is graded B, 67.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://moodle.com/about/leadership/
- https://moodle.com/about-us/
- https://moodle.com/privacy-notice/
- https://moodle.org/.well-known/security.txt
- https://docs.moodle.org/dev/MoodleNet/Sustainability
- https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-10-02-the-world-s-most-popular-lms-provider-moodle-raises-money-for-the-1st-time

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.