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  "markdown": "Founder.\n\nTroy Goode founded Courier, a notifications API for developers, and took it through Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch as CEO. He was part of the Eloqua team that took that company public in 2012, then served as VP of Engineering and later CTO at two startups.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/troygoode/\n- X: https://x.com/troygoode\n\n## What Troy builds\n\n- [Courier](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/courier.md), graded BB, 70.6/100, in Notifications. Notification API that routes one message to email, SMS, push, an in-app Inbox, Slack, Microsoft Teams and WhatsApp through your own providers, with templates, digests, preferences and journeys. Founder, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)\n- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bessemer-venture-partners/)\n- [Matrix](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/matrix/)\n- [Twilio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/twilio/)\n- [Slack](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/slack/)\n- [Acceleprise](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/acceleprise/)\n- [Allen Gannett](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/allen-gannett/)\n- [Andrew Miklas](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andrew-miklas/)\n- [Edith Harbaugh](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/edith-harbaugh/)\n- [Eric Koslow](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/eric-koslow/)\n- [Jack Altman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jack-altman/)\n- [Joe Payne](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/joe-payne/)\n- [Lachy Groom](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lachy-groom/)\n- [Ott Kaukver](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ott-kaukver/)\n- [SaaS Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/saas-ventures/)\n- [GV](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gv/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Troy Goode?\n\nTroy Goode founded Courier, a notifications API for developers, and took it through Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch as CEO. He was part of the Eloqua team that took that company public in 2012, then served as VP of Engineering and later CTO at two startups.\n\n### What does Courier make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Courier from Courier. Notification API that routes one message to email, SMS, push, an in-app Inbox, Slack, Microsoft Teams and WhatsApp through your own providers, with templates, digests, preferences and journeys.\n\n### Who has invested in Courier?\n\nThe sources our research read name Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, Matrix, Twilio, Slack, Acceleprise, Allen Gannett, Andrew Miklas, Edith Harbaugh, Eric Koslow, Jack Altman, Joe Payne, Lachy Groom, Ott Kaukver, SaaS Ventures and GV.\n\n### How are Troy's tools graded?\n\nCourier is graded BB, 70.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.courier.com\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/troygoode/\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/courier\n- https://www.courier.com/\n- https://www.courier.com/docs/resources/help\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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