# Wade Foster

> Wade Foster is founder of Zapier. Zapier MCP (agent actions) on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/wade-foster/
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/wade-foster/index.md (~750 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/wade-foster/index.min.md (~530 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/wade-foster/index.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key)
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)
- Updated: 2026-10-28

Founder, Zapier.

Wade Foster is co-founder and CEO of Zapier, the workflow automation platform he started in 2011 with Bryan Helmig and Mike Knoop and launched through Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch. Before Zapier he did freelance integration work and worked with Helmig at Veterans United Home Loans.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wadefoster/
- X: https://x.com/wadefoster

## What Wade builds

- [Zapier MCP (agent actions)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zapier-mcp.md), graded C, 58.2/100, in Agent tool access. Hosted MCP server that lets agents discover and run actions across apps connected to the user's Zapier account. Founder, Zapier, researched 2026-10-26.

## Backed by

- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bessemer-venture-partners/)
- [Sequoia Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sequoia-capital/)

## Questions

### Who is Wade Foster?

Wade Foster is co-founder and CEO of Zapier, the workflow automation platform he started in 2011 with Bryan Helmig and Mike Knoop and launched through Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch. Before Zapier he did freelance integration work and worked with Helmig at Veterans United Home Loans.

### What does Zapier make?

Anchor Terminal lists Zapier MCP (agent actions) from Zapier. Hosted MCP server that lets agents discover and run actions across apps connected to the user's Zapier account.

### Who has invested in Zapier?

The sources our research read name Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital.

### How are Wade's tools graded?

Zapier MCP (agent actions) is graded C, 58.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zapier
- https://zapier.com/

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. 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.

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