# Saoud Rizwan (slim)

> Saoud Rizwan is founder and CEO of Cline. Cline on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Founder and CEO, Cline.

Saoud Rizwan founded Cline and is its chief executive.

## What Saoud builds

- [Cline](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cline.md), graded C, 60.5/100, in Agent harnesses. Open-source coding agent that runs as a VS Code extension, a JetBrains plugin, a CLI and a desktop app, all on one TypeScript SDK since extension 4.0.0 (26 June 2026). Founder and CEO, Cline, researched 2026-10-28.

## Backed by

- [Emergence Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/emergence-capital/)
- [Pace Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/pace-capital/)
- [1984 Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/1984-ventures/)
- [Essence VC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/essence-vc/)
- [Cox Exponential](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cox-exponential/)
- [Jared Friedman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jared-friedman/)
- [Theodore Browne](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/theodore-browne/)
- [Logan Kilpatrick](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/logan-kilpatrick/)
- [Addy Osmani](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/addy-osmani/)
- [Eric Simons](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/eric-simons/)

## Questions

### Who is Saoud Rizwan?

Saoud Rizwan founded Cline and is its chief executive.

### What does Cline Bot Inc. make?

Anchor Terminal lists Cline from Cline Bot Inc..

### Who has invested in Cline Bot Inc.?

The sources our research read name Emergence Capital, Pace Capital, 1984 Ventures, Essence VC, Cox Exponential, Jared Friedman, Theodore Browne, Logan Kilpatrick, Addy Osmani and Eric Simons.

### How are Saoud's tools graded?

Cline is graded C, 60.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://cline.bot/
- https://cline.bot/contact
- https://cline.bot/blog/cline-raises-32m-series-a-and-seed-funding-building-the-open-source-ai-coding-agent-that-enterprises-trust
- https://cline.bot/blog/how-we-migrated-11-million-users-to-clines-biggest-harness-upgrade

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.