Apify
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software |
| Founded | 2016 |
| Founder | Jan Čurn and Jakub Balada |
| Headquarters | Prague , Czech Republic |
Number of locations | 1 |
| Revenue | €6.7 million in 2023[1] |
Number of employees | 51-200[2] |
| Website | https://apify.com/ |
Apify is a web scraping platform for extracting data from websites and automating workflows a human would otherwise complete manually in an internet browser. It has over 3,000 serverless cloud programs[3] called Actors that carry out specific functions, such as a Google Trends scraper[4] and website content crawler.[5]
History
Apify (originally named Apifier) began as a project in 2015 when its founders Jan Čurn and Jakub Balada participated in the first batch of the Y Combinator Fellowship program.[6] The company was incorporated as Apifier s.r.o. on February 15, 2016.[7] The company changed its name to Apify in October 2017.[8] In its early years, the company received a $12,000 grant from the Y Combinator Fellowship on October 20, 2015,[9] followed by $500,000 in funding from INCOMMING Ventures and Reflex Capital over the next four years.[10] In 2024, Apify received €2.8 million in funding from J&T Ventures and others.[11] In 2021, Apify ranked 14th in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Central Europe 2021.[12] In 2023, Apify was ranked as the 187th fastest-growing European company in the Financial Times ranking.[13]
Products
Apify's main products are the following:
See also
References
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- ^ "Prague startup Apify raises €2.8M for AI data mining". Tech.eu. 2024-04-15. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
- ^ "Technology Fast 50 2021". Deloitte Hungary. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
- ^ Kilby, Nathalie (2023-03-01). "FT 1000: the seventh annual ranking of Europe's fastest-growing companies". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
- ^ Bedřich, Václav (2019-09-23). "Sázka na data. Miliardář Fryc kupuje za desítky milionů korun další podíl v českém startupu Apify". CzechCrunch (in Czech). Retrieved 2024-12-23.
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