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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Grafana Labs.\n\nRaj Dutt is co-founder and CEO of Grafana Labs, the company behind the open-source Grafana dashboarding tool, founded in 2014 as Raintank with Torkel Ödegaard and Anthony Woods. While at college he founded Voxel, a cloud and hosting company that Internap acquired in 2012.\n\n## What Raj builds\n\n- [Grafana MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grafana-mcp-server.md), graded BB, 73.9/100, in Observability \u0026 incidents. Grafana Labs' open-source MCP server for Grafana. It runs locally or self-hosted and gives agents dashboards, datasource queries (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope and others), alerting, incidents and OnCall on a self-managed Grafana or Grafana Cloud. Co-founder, Grafana Labs, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Anthony Woods](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/anthony-woods/), Co-founder, Grafana Labs\n- [Torkel Ödegaard](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/torkel-odegaard/), Co-founder, Grafana Labs\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lightspeed-venture-partners/)\n- [Lead Edge Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lead-edge-capital/)\n- [GIC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gic/)\n- [Sequoia Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sequoia-capital/)\n- [Coatue](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/coatue/)\n- [J.P. Morgan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/j-p-morgan/)\n- [K5 Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/k5-global/)\n- [CapitalG](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/capitalg/)\n- [Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ontario-teachers-pension-plan/)\n- [Sapphire Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sapphire-ventures/)\n- [Tiger Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tiger-global/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Raj Dutt?\n\nRaj Dutt is co-founder and CEO of Grafana Labs, the company behind the open-source Grafana dashboarding tool, founded in 2014 as Raintank with Torkel Ödegaard and Anthony Woods. While at college he founded Voxel, a cloud and hosting company that Internap acquired in 2012.\n\n### What does Grafana Labs make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Grafana MCP Server from Grafana Labs. Grafana Labs' open-source MCP server for Grafana. It runs locally or self-hosted and gives agents dashboards, datasource queries (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope and others), alerting, incidents and OnCall on a self-managed Grafana or Grafana Cloud.\n\n### Who has invested in Grafana Labs?\n\nThe sources our research read name Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lead Edge Capital, GIC, Sequoia Capital, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, K5 Global, CapitalG, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Sapphire Ventures and Tiger Global.\n\n### How are Raj's tools graded?\n\nGrafana MCP Server is graded BB, 73.9 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://bigtent.fm/s1/9\n- https://grafana.com/\n- https://grafana.com/contact/\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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