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  "markdown": "Founder and co-CEO.\n\nBen Dowling founded IPinfo in 2013. The blog's author page says he was CTO of Calm.com and a software engineer at Facebook before that. His post of mid-2025 announcing a co-CEO says he leads product and technical strategy while Paul Heywood runs the commercial side.\n\n## What Ben builds\n\n- [IPinfo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ipinfo.md), graded B, 62.7/100, in Security intelligence. IPinfo is an IP address data service from IPinfo Inc. in Seattle. Its API returns geolocation, ASN, privacy and residential proxy signals for an address, with a free Lite tier, paid tiers, a batch endpoint and a hosted MCP server. Founder and co-CEO, researched 2026-11-03.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Paul Heywood](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/paul-heywood/), Co-CEO\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Ben Dowling?\n\nBen Dowling founded IPinfo in 2013. The blog's author page says he was CTO of Calm.com and a software engineer at Facebook before that. His post of mid-2025 announcing a co-CEO says he leads product and technical strategy while Paul Heywood runs the commercial side.\n\n### What does IPinfo Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists IPinfo from IPinfo Inc.. IPinfo is an IP address data service from IPinfo Inc. in Seattle. Its API returns geolocation, ASN, privacy and residential proxy signals for an address, with a free Lite tier, paid tiers, a batch endpoint and a hosted MCP server.\n\n### How are Ben's tools graded?\n\nIPinfo is graded B, 62.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://ipinfo.io/about\n- https://ipinfo.io/information-for-ai\n- https://ipinfo.io/blog/author/ben\n- https://ipinfo.io/blog/introducing-ipinfos-new-co-ceo\n- https://ipinfo.io/blog/ipinfos-journey-accurate-ip-data\n- https://ipinfo.io/blog/pillar/company-news-and-updates\n- https://ipinfo.io/privacy-policy\n- https://ipinfo.io/terms-of-service\n- https://ipinfo.io/.well-known/security.txt\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ipinfo/mcp/main/README.md\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. If a page is about you, link your account from it to write the about and set the links yourself. For a photo, a correction or to have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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