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Web data scraping infrastructure startup Oxylabs reels in $130M in its first funding round

$130M. That's what Warburg Pincus just paid for Oxylabs—a bootstrapped data scraping startup now valued at $3.6B.

Reporting by SiliconAngle 1 min brief
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Why it matters

Data scraping infrastructure is becoming a critical AI economy bottleneck. Oxylabs' unicorn valuation signals investor conviction that web data collection—essential for training and fine-tuning LLMs—is now a defensible, venture-scale business.

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  1. Oxylabs raised $130M Series A from Warburg Pincus

  2. Valuation: $3.6B (unicorn threshold crossed)

  3. First external funding round (previously bootstrapped)

  4. Lithuanian startup, web data scraping/infrastructure focus

  5. Published July 9, 2026

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Publisher excerpt: Data scraping startup Oxylabs UAB has broken into unicorn territory after raising $130 million in funding from the private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC. The round is the first time the bootstrapped company has ever sought outside funding, and lifts its valuation to a cool $3.6 billion, it said…
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