# Benjamin Swerdlow

> Benjamin Swerdlow is founder and CEO of Freestyle. Freestyle on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Founder and CEO, Freestyle.

Benjamin Swerdlow is founder and chief executive of Freestyle, a San Francisco company from Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch that builds fast, snapshottable virtual machines for AI agents. He left Apple to start it.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benswerdlow/
- X: https://x.com/benswerd

## What Benjamin builds

- [Freestyle](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/freestyle.md), graded C, 58.8/100, in Code execution sandboxes. Freestyle runs full Linux virtual machines for AI agents, with pause and resume that keeps memory, snapshots, private networks and domains. Agents drive it through a REST API, a TypeScript SDK and a CLI from one npm package. Founder and CEO, Freestyle, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Jacob Zwang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jacob-zwang/), Founder and CTO, Freestyle

## Backed by

- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)

## Questions

### Who is Benjamin Swerdlow?

Benjamin Swerdlow is founder and chief executive of Freestyle, a San Francisco company from Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch that builds fast, snapshottable virtual machines for AI agents. He left Apple to start it.

### What does Freestyle Cloud Inc. make?

Anchor Terminal lists Freestyle from Freestyle Cloud Inc.. Freestyle runs full Linux virtual machines for AI agents, with pause and resume that keeps memory, snapshots, private networks and domains. Agents drive it through a REST API, a TypeScript SDK and a CLI from one npm package.

### Who has invested in Freestyle Cloud Inc.?

The sources our research read name Y Combinator.

### How are Benjamin's tools graded?

Freestyle is graded C, 58.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.freestyle.sh
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/freestyle

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