Founder of a listed tool
Pelin Kenez
Co-founder and CEO; product designer, named behind the Zeplin listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Pelin builds
Zeplin D · Design workspaces & canvases
Design handoff platform from Zeplin, Inc. where teams publish finished screens, components and design tokens. Its REST API and webhooks read and partly edit that data, and an official local MCP server gives coding agents screen and component specifications.
Co-founder and CEO; product designer, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Berk Çebi Co-founder
- Ismail Ceylan Co-founder; software developer / COO
- Merih Akar Co-founder; developer
Backed by
Y Combinator Elad Gil Mike Maples
Questions
Who is Pelin Kenez?
Pelin Kenez is co-founder and CEO of Zeplin, a design delivery platform where product teams publish finished designs for developers. Zeplin started in Istanbul in June 2014, went through Y Combinator's Summer 2015 batch and reported 5 million users in September 2022.
What does Zeplin, Inc. make?
Anchor Terminal lists Zeplin from Zeplin, Inc.. Design handoff platform from Zeplin, Inc. where teams publish finished screens, components and design tokens. Its REST API and webhooks read and partly edit that data, and an official local MCP server gives coding agents screen and component specifications.
Who has invested in Zeplin, Inc.?
The sources our research read name Y Combinator, Elad Gil and Mike Maples.
How are Pelin's tools graded?
Zeplin is graded D, 47.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (13)
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zeplin
- https://x.com/pelinkenez
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/64644-ismail-ceylan
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceylanismail/
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/64665-merih-akar
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/merihakar/
- https://x.com/merihakar
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/15544-berk-%C3%A7ebi
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/berkcebi/
- https://zeplin.io/
- https://zeplin.io
- https://zeplin.io/enterprise/contact-sales/
- https://support.zeplin.io/en/articles/11559086-zeplin-mcp-server
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