# Bright Data

> Bright Data is a privately held Israeli web-data infrastructure company that helps enterprises, developers and AI systems collect and structure publicly available online information. Founded in 2014 as Luminati Networks, it has expanded from proxy networks into scraping APIs, managed browsers, datasets, retail intelligence and agent-facing tools. The company reports more than 20,000 customers, 450-plus team members and annual recurring revenue above $300 million in 2025.

- **Founded:** 2014
- **Headquarters:** Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
- **Founders:** Ofer Vilenski (Co-founder), Derry Shribman (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** 450+ team members, according to Bright Data's media center; LinkedIn places the company in the 501-1,000 employee band.
- **Products:** Proxy Networks, Web Unlocker, Web Scraper API, Browser API, SERP API
- **Notable:** Reached its first Fortune 500 customer in 2015, according to the company timeline., Passed $100 million in revenue in 2021 and reported annual recurring revenue above $300 million in 2025., Expanded to more than 20,000 customers worldwide by 2023.

## Products & services

- **Proxy Networks** — Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile proxy infrastructure with global geographic targeting.
- **Web Unlocker** — An API that handles proxy rotation, blocking and CAPTCHA challenges and charges for successful results.
- **Web Scraper API** — Managed, site-specific extraction that returns fresh structured records without requiring customers to operate proxies or parsers.
- **Browser API** — Managed cloud browsers compatible with Puppeteer, Selenium and Playwright for interactive and JavaScript-heavy sites.
- **SERP API** — Real-time, geo-targeted and structured search results from multiple search engines.
- **Datasets Marketplace** — Ready-made, validated datasets with filters, scheduled refreshes and cloud or file delivery.
- **Bright Insights** — Retail and e-commerce analytics for pricing, assortment, marketplace performance and lost-revenue monitoring.
- **Web MCP, CLI and SDKs** — Agent- and developer-facing interfaces for search, scraping, extraction, browser control and data pipelines.
- **Scraper Studio** — An AI-assisted, self-healing builder that turns a public website into a hosted data API.
- **Managed Data Acquisition** — Custom collection, cleansing, validation and delivery operated for enterprise customers.

## Achievements

- Reached its first Fortune 500 customer in 2015, according to the company timeline.
- Passed $100 million in revenue in 2021 and reported annual recurring revenue above $300 million in 2025.
- Expanded to more than 20,000 customers worldwide by 2023.
- Reported more than 5,500 granted patent claims by 2023.
- Won dismissal of X Corp.'s 2023 claims over scraping and resale of public data in federal court in 2024.
- Built the Bright Initiative to more than 750 nonprofit, academic and public-sector partners.
- Reported serving 14 of the top 20 LLM labs in 2025.
- Bright Initiative received recognition including Snowflake Data for Good and a 2024 CSR Excellence Award.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Launched Scraper Studio, an AI-powered builder for hosted, self-healing website scrapers, with CLI access from coding agents.
- **2026-05** — Added one-click Web MCP connections and custom tool groups drawn from more than 60 specialized tools.
- **2026-01** — Ran a five-day Web MCP launch week covering scoped tool groups, token reduction, enterprise integrations, observability and evaluations.
- **2025-12** — Reported that annual recurring revenue had surpassed $300 million and that it served 14 of the top 20 LLM labs.
- **2025-03** — Positioned the company more explicitly as web-data infrastructure for AI and business intelligence, reflecting increased demand from model and agent builders.

## Links

- Website: https://brightdata.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bright-data
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/bright_data
- GitHub: https://github.com/brightdata
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrightData
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/brightdataco

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Last updated: 2026-08-14