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Freestyle

YC S24

San Francisco, US · Founded 2024 · 5 employees · 4 known investors

Freestyle provides Linux virtual machines that provision in milliseconds with integrated version control, designed for running distributed agents at scale. The platform offers full KVM support, real root access, and nested virtualization capabilities for agent-based workloads.

Also known as Freestyle VMs · freestyle.sh

Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S24)

Freestyle was founded in 2024 by Bۙۚۨ۫ۙۚۨ۫ۙۚۨ۫ۙۚۨ۫enjamin Sweۖۖۖۖۘۘۘۘۖۖۖۖۘۘۘۘۖۖۖۖrdlow and Jacob Zwang.

BSBۙۚۨ۫ۙۚۨ۫ۙۚۨ۫ۙۚۨ۫enjamin Sweۖۖۖۖۘۘۘۘۖۖۖۖۘۘۘۘۖۖۖۖrdlow
Bۙۚۨ۫ۙۚۨ۫ۙۚۨ۫ۙۚۨ۫enjamin Sweۖۖۖۖۘۘۘۘۖۖۖۖۘۘۘۘۖۖۖۖrdlowin𝕏FounderBenjamin Sweordlow began coding in elementary school and later served as a technical lead on the World Health Organization's COVID-19 App Collective Team during high school. He worked as a consultant at Apple, advancing to senior level within three months, before founding Freestyle.
JZJacob Zwang
Jacob ZwanginFounder/CTOJacob Zwang worked as a senior full-stack engineer in conversational engineering at Apple, where he shipped multiple production projects. He is building Freestyle, a cloud and backend workflow platform, with a focus on developer tools.

Investors · 4

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$10M disclosed across 1 round · 2026

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Freestyle (freestyle.sh) provides full Linux virtual machines aimed at AI agent workloads rather than container-based sandboxes. VMs provision in under 600ms from API request to a ready machine, with documented p99 startup latency under 400ms, and can be run for extended periods, hibernated with their memory state intact, and resumed later in that exact state. The company positions the product as capable of supporting tens of thousands of concurrently running agents.

The VMs expose real root access and the full Linux feature set, including nested virtualization with full KVM support (allowing VMs, Docker or other virtualization stacks to run inside them), FUSE, eBPF, sealed Linux users, systemd services and groups for multi-user isolation, and a complete networking stack. Public tiers go up to 64GB of RAM, with larger configurations available for enterprise. VMs can be snapshotted and forked cheaply — including live forking of a running VM without pausing it — enabling branching, cloning and rapid recovery. The platform is accessed via an API, SDKs and a CLI, and its documentation covers VM lifecycle management, file transfer, base snapshots, SSH access, scoped-identity client sessions, custom and wildcard domains with TLS, VPCs, firewall rules, WireGuard tunnels, PTY sessions and anti-affinity VM placement.

Freestyle describes itself more broadly as a cloud for managing "AI code" — code that the operator did not write, whether generated by an AI or supplied by end users — and builds sandboxing, deployment and management APIs for that lifecycle. It is the creator of Adorable, an open-source AI app builder described as an open-source Lovable, and also publishes Cloudstate, a JavaScript database runtime written in Rust, along with a CLI and sandbox SDKs.

Business model

Freestyle sells cloud virtual machine infrastructure through a self-serve API, SDK and CLI. Usage is free to start with no credit card required, and documented pricing and limits are organized into plans, with paused VMs incurring no charge and enterprise tiers offering resources beyond the public 64GB RAM ceiling.

Traction

The website lists vly.ai, Rork and Vibeflow as customers. Its open-source repositories include Adorable with roughly 802 GitHub stars and 311 forks and Cloudstate with about 212 stars, across a GitHub organization of 47 repositories.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market

Market position

Freestyle competes in the agent sandbox and code-execution infrastructure segment, positioning itself against container-based sandbox providers by offering full virtual machines for long-running, resource-intensive agent workloads.

Freestyle contrasts its product with container-based sandbox providers by offering full Linux VMs with real root access, nested virtualization and the complete networking stack, combined with sub-second provisioning, memory-state hibernation with no charge while paused, and instant snapshotting, branching and live forking of running machines.

Technology

The platform runs full Linux virtual machines rather than container-shaped sandboxes. VMs boot from memory snapshots in roughly 0.7 seconds (p99 under 400ms) and support nested virtualization with full KVM, FUSE, eBPF, the complete Linux networking stack, real root access, sealed Linux users, groups and systemd services. Memory-state hibernation allows a VM to be paused and resumed weeks later in the same state, and low-cost snapshotting supports branching, cloning and live forking of running machines. Networking features include VPCs, firewall rules, TLS and custom/wildcard domain routing into VM ports, WireGuard tunnels, and anti-affinity placement to keep replicas on separate hosts. A slug system keys VMs by end user and an identity system provides granular access control and multi-tenant network isolation.

Go-to-market

Self-serve developer adoption via a free tier with no credit card, public API and CLI documentation (including a bash endpoint that agents can curl to read the docs), a Discord community, and open-source projects such as Adorable, Cloudstate and the Freestyle CLI that channel developers toward the hosted platform. Direct contact with the founder is offered for enterprise-style inquiries.

Developers and companies building AI coding agents and agent products, including AI app builders serving multiple end customers. Documented use cases are long-running agent tasks lasting hours to months, failure-prone or experimental exploration requiring branching and cloning, complex coding problems in research or production codebases, and multi-tenant agent products.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Adorable GitHub starsJan 2026802 stars
Cloudstate GitHub starsJan 2026212 stars
Maximum VM RAM (public tiers)Jan 202664 GB
Public GitHub repositoriesJan 202647 repositories
VM startup latency (p99)Jan 2026400 milliseconds

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Competitors · 6

by search overlap
Docker9 shared keywordsDocker provides containerization and application development platform tools including sandboxes, governance, and security solutions for developers.
Netlify6 shared keywordsNetlify is a platform for building, deploying, and scaling modern web applications, serving millions of developers and thousands of enterprises. The company provides tools for running composable web applications in production, including global corporate sites, e-commerce platforms, and SaaS applications.
Cloudflare Turnstile6 shared keywordsCloudflare provides a global cloud network platform delivering security, performance, and development services through sixty-plus integrated services including SASE, application security, and full-stack development infrastructure.
Upsun5 shared keywordsUpsun provides application hosting and development infrastructure that supports multiple programming languages and frameworks, enabling development teams to deploy applications while maintaining centralized control over security, compliance, and costs.
Vercel4 shared keywordsVercel is an infrastructure platform for building and deploying applications, with emerging support for agentic capabilities that allow AI agents and humans to collaborate in software development. The platform serves developers and agents building web applications and software.
Stackblitz4 shared keywordsStackBlitz provides a browser-based development environment for creating and launching web applications, with code execution happening entirely within the user's browser using WebAssembly technology. The platform enables developers to write, run, and debug applications without reliance on remote cloud servers.

Companies competing with Freestyle for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.

Timeline · 1

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2026
Freestyle VMs platform available with API, CLI and documentation

Freestyle offers full Linux VMs for AI agents with sub-second provisioning, pause/resume, live forking, custom domains, VPCs and firewall controls, documented across its public docs and CLI.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

In the news

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Freestyle do?
Freestyle offers full Linux virtual machines that start in milliseconds and are built for running AI coding agents at scale.
Who founded Freestyle?
Freestyle was founded by Bۙۚۨ۫ۙۚۨ۫ۙۚۨ۫ۙۚۨ۫enjamin Sweۖۖۖۖۘۘۘۘۖۖۖۖۘۘۘۘۖۖۖۖrdlow, Jacob Zwang in 2024.
Who are Freestyle's investors?
Freestyle's investors include Transpose Platform Management, Y Combinator, 468 Capital, Silas Capital Partners.
How much funding has Freestyle raised?
Freestyle has disclosed $10M raised across 1 round.
Where is Freestyle headquartered?
Freestyle is headquartered in San Francisco, US.