Startupsby GlyphWhy it ranks
How the rank works- team of 5Team size · YC's directory+4
- went through YCProgram · this site+4
A sum of public facts, not a judgement and not investment advice.
Competitors
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI, Devtools | Active | YCF26 | |
| AI, Devtools | Active | YCW22 |
Adjacent
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI, Devtools | Active | YCS26 | |
| Devtools | Active | YCW16 | |
| Devtools | Acquired | YCS20 | |
| AI, Devtools | Active | YCS25 | |
| AI, Data, Devtools | Active | YCS24 |
Also from S24 in AI
All of S24| Company | Category | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AI, Devtools | Active | |
| AI, Devtools | Active | |
| AI, Devtools | Active | |
| AI, Devtools | Active | |
| AI, Devtools | Active | |
| AI, Devtools | Active |
Founders
- Benjamin SwerdlowFounder/CEO
- Jacob ZwangFounder/CTO
About Freestyle
Freestyle builds the most powerful VMs for AI Agents. - **Instant Startup**: Freestyle VMs provision in milliseconds, with p99s under 400ms. - **Persistence**: Freestyle VMs can run forever, they can be hibernated with their exact memory in place and come back to life weeks later instantly, in that exact state. - **Powerful**: Freestyle VMs go up to 64GB of RAM for public tiers and much further for enterprise. Freestyle does high quality hardware virtualization supporting nested virtualization, FUSE, eBPF, full Linux networking and more. If it can run in an EC2, it can run in a Freestyle VM. - **Cheaply Snapshottable and Branchable**: Freestyle VMs are instantly and cheaply snapshottable (sub 1ms interruption, sub 50ms to snapshot ready). These snapshots can be used to create new VMs in the exact state of the original VM (memory and disk). This enables powerful workflows like branching, cloning, and rapid recovery from failures.
- YC batch
- S24 · Summer 2024
- Status, per YC
- Active
- Category
- AI, Developer tools
- Team size
- 5
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Founded
- 2024
- Checked
- 6h ago
YC tags: Developer Tools, Cloud Computing, AI
Changes seen
Newly tagged AI; no longer tagged Artificial Intelligence.
Freestyle: questions
Which YC batch was Freestyle in?
Freestyle was in Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch (S24).
Is Freestyle still active?
Y Combinator lists Freestyle as active.
Who founded Freestyle?
Freestyle's founders, as listed on its YC page: Benjamin Swerdlow (Founder/CEO), Jacob Zwang (Founder/CTO).
Where is Freestyle based?
Freestyle lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.