# David Benson (slim)

> David Benson is co-founder and director of draw.io Ltd. draw.io + MCP on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder and director, draw.io Ltd.

David Benson co-founded the company behind draw.io, incorporated in 2000 and later renamed JGraph Ltd and then draw.io Ltd, and has been a director since 2000. In 2012 Benson explained that the hosted Diagramly service became draw.io because the .io suffix was 'a lot cooler than .ly'.

## What David builds

- [draw.io + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/drawio.md), graded B, 62.2/100, in Diagramming. The open-source diagram editor (also diagrams.net) with an official MCP server. Co-founder and director, draw.io Ltd, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Gaudenz Alder](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/gaudenz-alder/), Original author of JGraph, the base of draw.io

## Questions

### Who is David Benson?

David Benson co-founded the company behind draw.io, incorporated in 2000 and later renamed JGraph Ltd and then draw.io Ltd, and has been a director since 2000. In 2012 Benson explained that the hosted Diagramly service became draw.io because the .io suffix was 'a lot cooler than .ly'.

### What does draw.io Ltd (formerly JGraph Ltd) make?

Anchor Terminal lists draw.io + MCP from draw.io Ltd (formerly JGraph Ltd).

### How are David's tools graded?

draw.io + MCP is graded B, 62.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.drawio.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagrams.net
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04051179/officers

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.