Founder Profile
Mike Knoop
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Mike Knoop?
Mike Knoop is a founder of Zapier Inc., which was founded in 2011 with Wade Foster and Bryan Helmig.
- Company founded
- Zapier Inc.
- Founded
- 2011
- Co-founders
- Wade Foster and Bryan Helmig
Background
Engineer and University of Missouri alumnus who did freelance integration work with Wade Foster before Zapier.
Founding Story
Mike Knoop joined the founding team in late 2011 and went full-time in May 2012, the month Zapier launched its public beta. He worked on product and later led Zapier's early AI efforts, including the 2024 launch of Zapier Central. In 2024 he co-founded the ARC Prize, a competition based on François Chollet's ARC-AGI benchmark for AI reasoning. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
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