Bright Data is a web data infrastructure company that provides proxies, scraping APIs, browsing automation, and AI-ready datasets to businesses extracting structured information from the public web at scale. The platform operates one of the largest proxy networks in the world and has become a key supplier of training and grounding data to AI labs, search products, and enterprise data teams.
The company was originally established as Luminati Networks in 2014 and rebranded to Bright Data. UK-based private equity firm EMK Capital acquired a majority shareholding in 2017 in a transaction valued at around US$200 million, with the business reported to have surpassed a US$1 billion valuation since. Or Lenchner serves as chief executive, and the company is headquartered in Israel with offices across the United States and Europe.
Bright Data publicly reported crossing US$300 million in annual recurring revenue with year-over-year growth above 50 percent, and management has guided toward US$400 million in ARR by mid-2026 as demand from AI companies for live and historical web data accelerates. The business is profitable and largely funded through operations rather than venture capital, which differentiates it from many other AI infrastructure players.
The product portfolio spans residential, datacentre, and mobile proxies with over 400 million IPs, scraping APIs and ready-made datasets across e-commerce, social, search, and travel verticals, and browser automation infrastructure for scraping JavaScript-heavy sites. Customers use the platform for price intelligence, market research, brand protection, ad verification, cybersecurity, and AI training data acquisition.
Bright Data has also been at the centre of several high-profile legal cases over web scraping, including litigation with Meta and other platforms. Court outcomes have generally affirmed the legality of scraping public web data, reinforcing Bright Data's position in the market and shaping broader industry norms around access to public information.