Mike Knoop is an AI researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded Zapier, ARC Prize Foundation, and Ndea. Mike Knoop's Twitter Score is 83 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranking #9,373 (top 5%) among 486,037 tracked accounts.
Mike Knoop co-founded Zapier after the company participated in Y Combinator's summer 2012 class, with the company raising a $1.2 million seed round that year led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Zapier later reached a $5 billion valuation in a 2021 secondary transaction involving Sequoia Capital and Steadfast Financial.
Mike Knoop co-founded the ARC Prize Foundation alongside François Chollet, a benchmark initiative focused on measuring progress toward general artificial intelligence. He has contributed to the technical research underpinning the effort, co-authoring the ARC Prize 2024 and 2025 technical reports published on arXiv. Mike Knoop also co-founded Ndea, an AI lab. Mike Knoop's account has 24,758 followers as of September 2026 and 4,172 posts, and has been mentioned by 45 accounts a total of 91 times.
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