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  "markdown": "Co-founder.\n\nVihar Kurama co-founded Plane, the open-source project management tool, with Vamsi Kurama in November 2022 and was its COO when it raised its seed round in 2023. Plane grew out of an internal tool the founders built at an IT consulting company, and he writes product posts on its blog.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vihar-kurama/\n\n## What Vihar 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, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Vamsi Kurama](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/vamsi-kurama/), Co-founder and CEO\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [OSS Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/oss-capital/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Vihar Kurama?\n\nVihar Kurama co-founded Plane, the open-source project management tool, with Vamsi Kurama in November 2022 and was its COO when it raised its seed round in 2023. Plane grew out of an internal tool the founders built at an IT consulting company, and he writes product posts on its blog.\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 Vihar'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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