# Benjamin Swerdlow (slim)

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

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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.

- 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.

### What does Freestyle Cloud Inc. make?

Anchor Terminal lists Freestyle from Freestyle Cloud Inc..

### 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

These 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.