Headquarters
Edmonton, CanadaFounded
2020CEO / Founder
Ardy NaghshinehEmployees
11-50Funding
Seed — $2.8MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.8/10Website
www.browse.aiProfile updated
Browse AI is a no-code web scraping and monitoring platform founded in 2017 in Edmonton, Canada by Ardy Naghshineh. The product lets users point-and-click to build bots that extract structured data from websites and monitor for changes.
Browse AI serves more than 400,000 users including teams at Amazon, HubSpot, and Adobe. Use cases include price monitoring, lead generation, market research, and competitive intelligence.
The company raised a $2.8 million seed round in August 2023, with participation from founders of Dropbox, Blinkist, and DoorDash.
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Who Browse AI competes with, and how they differ.
Octoparse is a desktop-first point-and-click scraper with tiered SaaS pricing (roughly $69-$249+/mo) for individuals through mid-size teams, while Browse AI leans cloud-native with AI-adaptive robots that self-heal when a page layout changes.
Apify targets developers writing custom scrapers ("Actors") in code, billed by compute-unit usage on top of subscription tiers, versus Browse AI's fully no-code robot builder aimed at non-technical users.
Axiom.ai is the closest technical peer -- a Chrome-extension, no-code browser-automation tool priced by monthly runtime hours ($15-$250/mo) -- but has a smaller prebuilt-robot library and less emphasis on scheduled website monitoring than Browse AI.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedParseHub offers a free tier for small one-off scraping projects with paid plans adding scheduled cloud runs and IP rotation, but lacks Browse AI's library of 250+ prebuilt robots and its Zapier-style integration ecosystem.
Bright Data sells proxy-network and data-collection infrastructure priced by bandwidth/request volume for enterprise data teams, a different technical layer and buyer than Browse AI's self-serve, per-seat no-code SaaS product.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedKey milestones in Browse AI's history, with sources.
Seed round -- $2.8 million
Browse AI announced a $2.8 million seed round from Interface Capital, Alpine Venture Capital, AltaIR, Banana Capital, Creator Ventures, Trust Fund, Singularity Capital, Goodwater Capital and industry angels, after reaching breakeven at 250,000 users.
techcrunch.comReached 100,000 users
The company said it reached 100,000 users, with 82% of growth coming organically through word of mouth and search.
browse.aiZapier invests as user base hits 10,000
Browse AI received an investment from Zapier around the time its user base reached 10,000.
browse.aiAngels of Many invests in pre-seed round
Angels of Many invested in Browse AI's pre-seed round as the team scaled to 12 people.
browse.aiPublic launch on Product Hunt
Browse AI launched its first public version on Product Hunt, drawing over 1,600 upvotes.
browse.aiFirst outside investment via San Francisco accelerator
The company secured its first outside investment while going through an accelerator program in San Francisco.
browse.aiPropel pre-accelerator (Edmonton)
Browse AI went through the Propel pre-accelerator program in Edmonton in its early months.
browse.aiFounded -- self-funded, 2-person team
Browse AI started in January 2020 as a self-funded, two-person team.
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