The problem
Teams and AI agents need fresh web data but building and maintaining scrapers for every site is slow and brittle
What they do
Marketplace and cloud platform of 20,000+ web scraping and automation tools for developers and AI agents
Traction ~$40M ARR end-2025 (from $15M), 25,000+ paying customers, profitable
Hiring trend
- Open roles
- 10
- Headcount
- ~270
Headcount roughly doubled in 2025 (Lupa) to ~270 on LinkedIn; 11 open roles, mostly Prague engineering
Hiring in
- Prague
- Brno
- Ostrava
- Remote (Czechia)
Latest news
Jul 2026
Opened 20,000+ marketplace tools to AI agents paying via Coinbase's x402 protocol ↗Glassdoor
4.9 ★ 39 reviews ↗Funding
- Last round
- €2.8M (~$3M)
- Stage
- Seed
- Date
- Apr 2024
Led by J&T Ventures, Reflex Capital
- Hiring+1.510 open roles on the live job board (10–29 roles = +1.5)
- Funding recency0Seed · €2.8M (~$3M), Apr 2024 (30 months ago): over 24 months = 0
- Traction+1.5Strong growth: ~$40M ARR end-2025 (from $15M), 25,000+ paying customers, profitable
- Red flags0None found in the last 24 months
- Total3.01.5 + 0 + 1.5 − 0 = 3.0 → Steady (1.5–3.49)
Distance (Half) is a separate read on how long the lead can last. It doesn't change the score.
Distance
Half · edge: grows with users
Largest open marketplace of scraping tools: more builders bring more Actors and more buyers, with creator payouts up 5x in a year and 25,000+ paying customers; still behind Bright Data on revenue and fighting newer AI-native scrapers like Firecrawl.
Sources: Lupa.cz: Apify pays developers $1M a month, ARR ~$40M (May 2026) ↗ · Dealroom News: How Apify became the Stripe for AI agents (Feb 2026) ↗
Open ops roles
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Last checked Oct 25, 2026