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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO.\n\nVamsi Kurama co-founded Plane with Vihar Kurama in November 2022 and is its CEO. Plane is an open-source project management tool that teams can host on their own infrastructure, and it began as an internal tool the founders built while managing clients at an IT consulting company.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vamsi-kurama\n\n## What Vamsi builds\n\n- [Plane](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.md), graded B, 67.8/100, in Project \u0026 task management. Plane is an open-source project management platform for work items, cycles, modules and pages, sold as a cloud service and for self-hosting. Agents reach it through an MIT-licensed MCP server, hosted at mcp.plane.so, and a REST API. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Vihar Kurama](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/vihar-kurama/), Co-founder\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [OSS Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/oss-capital/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Vamsi Kurama?\n\nVamsi Kurama co-founded Plane with Vihar Kurama in November 2022 and is its CEO. Plane is an open-source project management tool that teams can host on their own infrastructure, and it began as an internal tool the founders built while managing clients at an IT consulting company.\n\n### What does Plane Software, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Plane from Plane Software, Inc.. Plane is an open-source project management platform for work items, cycles, modules and pages, sold as a cloud service and for self-hosting. Agents reach it through an MIT-licensed MCP server, hosted at mcp.plane.so, and a REST API.\n\n### Who has invested in Plane Software, Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name OSS Capital.\n\n### How are Vamsi's tools graded?\n\nPlane is graded B, 67.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vihar-kurama_today-i-asked-my-co-founder-vamsi-a-question-activity-7429751536198733824-WCyl\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/vamsi-kurama\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/vihar-kurama/\n- https://plane.so/contact\n- https://plane.so/pricing\n- https://plane.so/about\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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