# Ben Dowling (slim)

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

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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.

## 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.

### What does IPinfo Inc. make?

Anchor Terminal lists IPinfo from IPinfo Inc..

### 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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