Saoud Rizwan is a software founder who built the initial demo for Cline, an open-source AI coding agent, at an Anthropic hackathon in July 2024 and went on to found the company. Saoud Rizwan's Twitter Score is 26 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #36,973 (top 10%) among 487,142 tracked accounts.
Saoud Rizwan founded Cline and serves as its CEO. What began as a hackathon project evolved into a widely adopted open-source coding agent. Cline announced a combined seed and Series A raise of $32 million on July 31, 2025, led by Emergence Capital and Pace Capital. By January 30, 2026, Cline had surpassed five million installations, and Saoud Rizwan announced a $1 million Cline-credit grant program aimed at open-source projects. In February 2026, Cline disclosed that an unauthorized party had used a compromised npm token to publish a rogue package version; Cline stated that no malicious code was delivered and no user data was accessed.
Saoud Rizwan has accumulated 19,170 followers as of September 2026 on X and has published 1,187 posts. Saoud Rizwan has been mentioned by 4 accounts, with 4 total mentions.
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