Founder of a listed tool
Parag Agrawal
Founder and CEO, named behind the Parallel Search and Task APIs listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Parag builds
Parallel Search and Task APIs BB · Web search APIs
Parallel's web APIs for agents, covering search, page extraction, asynchronous research tasks, closed-ended decisions answered from current web evidence and an OpenAI-compatible Responses endpoint, with hosted Search and Task MCP servers.
Founder and CEO, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Backed by
Sequoia Capital Kleiner Perkins Index Ventures Spark Capital Khosla Ventures First Round Capital Terrain
Questions
Who is Parag Agrawal?
Parag Agrawal founded Parallel Web Systems, which builds infrastructure for AI agents to use the web. He joined Twitter as a software engineer in 2011, became its CTO in 2017 and was CEO from November 2021 to October 2022. He holds a PhD in computer science from Stanford.
What does Parallel Web Systems make?
Anchor Terminal lists Parallel Search and Task APIs from Parallel Web Systems. Parallel's web APIs for agents, covering search, page extraction, asynchronous research tasks, closed-ended decisions answered from current web evidence and an OpenAI-compatible Responses endpoint, with hosted Search and Task MCP servers.
Who has invested in Parallel Web Systems?
The sources our research read name Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital and Terrain.
How are Parag's tools graded?
Parallel Search and Task APIs is graded BB, 75.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
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