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  "markdown": "Founder and CEO, WorkOS.\n\nMichael Grinich founded WorkOS, which was set up in May 2019, and leads it as chief executive. He hosts Crossing the Enterprise Chasm, the company's podcast about startups moving up-market to serve enterprise customers.\n\n## What Michael builds\n\n- [WorkOS Pipes and Agents](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/workos-pipes.md), graded C, 59.9/100, in Agent auth \u0026 delegated access. WorkOS tools for connecting agents to third-party accounts, managing access tokens and assigning revocable agent identities. Founder and CEO, WorkOS, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Lachy Groom](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lachy-groom/)\n- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lightspeed-venture-partners/)\n- [Abstract Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/abstract-ventures/)\n- [Tuesday Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tuesday-capital/)\n- [Uncorrelated Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/uncorrelated-ventures/)\n- [Audacious Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/audacious-ventures/)\n- [Greenoaks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/greenoaks/)\n- [Meritech Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/meritech-capital/)\n- [Sapphire Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sapphire-ventures/)\n- [Craft Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/craft-ventures/)\n- [Elad Gil](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/elad-gil/)\n- [Nat Friedman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nat-friedman/)\n- [Kevin Hartz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kevin-hartz/)\n- [Brianne Kimmel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/brianne-kimmel/)\n- [Josh Buckley](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/josh-buckley/)\n- [Scott Belsky](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/scott-belsky/)\n- [Rahul Vohra](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/rahul-vohra/)\n- [Cristina Cordova](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cristina-cordova/)\n- [Akshay Kothari](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/akshay-kothari/)\n- [Matt Biilmann](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/matt-biilmann/)\n- [Harry Stebbings](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/harry-stebbings/)\n- [Guillermo Rauch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/guillermo-rauch/)\n- [Michael Ovitz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/michael-ovitz/)\n- [Mathilde Collin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mathilde-collin/)\n- [Howie Liu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/howie-liu/)\n- [Jack Altman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jack-altman/)\n- [Christian Reber](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/christian-reber/)\n- [Gokul Rajaram](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gokul-rajaram/)\n- [Shreyas Doshi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/shreyas-doshi/)\n- [Waseem Daher](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/waseem-daher/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Michael Grinich?\n\nMichael Grinich founded WorkOS, which was set up in May 2019, and leads it as chief executive. He hosts Crossing the Enterprise Chasm, the company's podcast about startups moving up-market to serve enterprise customers.\n\n### What does WorkOS make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists WorkOS Pipes and Agents from WorkOS. WorkOS tools for connecting agents to third-party accounts, managing access tokens and assigning revocable agent identities.\n\n### Who has invested in WorkOS?\n\nThe sources our research read name Lachy Groom, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Abstract Ventures, Tuesday Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, Audacious Ventures, Greenoaks, Meritech Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Craft Ventures, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Kevin Hartz, Brianne Kimmel, Josh Buckley, Scott Belsky, Rahul Vohra, Cristina Cordova, Akshay Kothari, Matt Biilmann, Harry Stebbings, Guillermo Rauch, Michael Ovitz, Mathilde Collin, Howie Liu, Jack Altman, Christian Reber, Gokul Rajaram, Shreyas Doshi and Waseem Daher.\n\n### How are Michael's tools graded?\n\nWorkOS Pipes and Agents is graded C, 59.9 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://workos.com/about\n- https://workos.com/podcast\n- https://workos.com/support\n- https://workos.com/blog/software-engineering-second-material\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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