Founder of a listed tool
Zakir Durumeric
Founder and CEO, named behind the Censys listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Zakir builds
Censys B · Security intelligence
Censys is an internet scanning and intelligence service. Its Platform API returns what an IP address, web property or certificate exposes, with DNS resolution, host history, enrichment and reputation data, through REST, a hosted MCP server, SDKs and a CLI.
Founder and CEO, researched 3 November 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Anil Gupta Chief Technology Officer
Backed by
Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital Decibel Greylock GV Intel Ascension Ventures Four Rivers Hamilton Lane
Questions
Who is Zakir Durumeric?
Zakir Durumeric is the founder and CEO of Censys. The company's about page credits him with inventing ZMap at the University of Michigan in 2013, the scanner the Censys research project grew from before it became a company in 2017.
What does Censys, Inc. make?
Anchor Terminal lists Censys from Censys, Inc.. Censys is an internet scanning and intelligence service. Its Platform API returns what an IP address, web property or certificate exposes, with DNS resolution, host history, enrichment and reputation data, through REST, a hosted MCP server, SDKs and a CLI.
Who has invested in Censys, Inc.?
The sources our research read name Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, Decibel, Greylock, GV, Intel, Ascension Ventures, Four Rivers and Hamilton Lane.
How are Zakir's tools graded?
Censys is graded B, 64.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (9)
- https://censys.com/leadership/
- https://censys.com/about/
- https://censys.com/contact/
- https://censys.com/newsroom/
- https://censys.com/newsroom/censys-raises-70-million-in-strategic-funding-to-expand-its-internet-intelligence-platform/
- https://www.intelcapital.com/censys-secures-75m-in-new-funding
- https://greylock.com/portfolio/censys/
- https://community.censys.com/
- https://api.github.com/orgs/censys/repos?per_page=100&sort=pushed
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