Modem

Built by developers of esteemed software tools

  • Ben Vinegar

    Co-founder · CEO

    Ben Vinegar

    Ben started Modem after almost ten years at Sentry, where he was the second employee, its first VP of Engineering, and later VP Emerging Technology. Earlier he built the Disqus embed and co-wrote Third-Party JavaScript for Manning. He co-hosts the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.

    Previously Sentry · Disqus · FreshBooks

  • Mike Clarke

    Co-founder · CTO

    Mike Clarke

    Mike leads engineering at Modem. Before that he ran engineering and then product at Treasury Prime, the embedded banking API company, as its first VP of Engineering and later Chief Product Officer. Earlier he managed engineering teams at Sentry, was a founding engineer at Standard Treasury (acquired by SVB), and ran operations at Disqus.

    Previously Treasury Prime · Sentry · SVB · Disqus

Team

  • Chris Clark

    Chris Clark

    Design Engineer

    Before: Design at Sentry, Trunk, & Sprig

  • Cody Brouwers

    Cody Brouwers

    Software Engineer

    Before: Eng at Vercel

  • Justin Giancola

    Justin Giancola

    Software Engineer

    Before: Eng at Precision Nutrition, Alma

  • James Kranz

    James Kranz

    Software Engineer

    Before: Eng at Google, Fitbit

  • Modem

    Modem

    AI Product Teammate

    Before: Just an idea on a napkin

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Small team, big mission: give every dev team a product layer that actually works. We're hiring.

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A desk workspace with a vintage monitor, plants, and electronics

Our Backers

Proudly backed by leaders in SaaS and devtools. Accel, which co-led Sentry's Series A in 2016, led our first round.

AccelInovia Capital
  • David Cramer, Chris Jennings • Sentry

  • Ivan Zhang • Cohere

  • Koen Bok, Jorn van Dijk • Framer

  • Lindsey Simon • Vercel

  • Armin Ronacher • Flask, Earendil

  • Jacob Thornton • Bootstrap, Pierre Computer Co

  • John Laban, Kenneth Rose • OpsLevel

  • Dave Johnson • PhoneGap/Cordova