# Ben Dowling

> Ben Dowling is founder and co-CEO. IPinfo on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-11-03

Founder and co-CEO.

Ben 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.

## What Ben builds

- [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.

## Works with

- [Paul Heywood](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/paul-heywood/), Co-CEO

## Questions

### Who is Ben Dowling?

Ben 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.

### What does IPinfo Inc. make?

Anchor 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.

### How are Ben's tools graded?

IPinfo is graded B, 62.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://ipinfo.io/about
- https://ipinfo.io/information-for-ai
- https://ipinfo.io/blog/author/ben
- https://ipinfo.io/blog/introducing-ipinfos-new-co-ceo
- https://ipinfo.io/blog/ipinfos-journey-accurate-ip-data
- https://ipinfo.io/blog/pillar/company-news-and-updates
- https://ipinfo.io/privacy-policy
- https://ipinfo.io/terms-of-service
- https://ipinfo.io/.well-known/security.txt
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ipinfo/mcp/main/README.md

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