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Funding · Aug 15, 2026, 01:33 AM · 4 sources

Oxylabs becomes Lithuania's unicorn after bootstrapping $350M ARR; Warburg backs data-for-agents play

<cite index="21-1">Lithuanian web data infrastructure leader Oxylabs took its first external funding at a $3.6B valuation, confirming a $350M annualized run rate and 350K+ customers.</cite> <cite index="21-2">Oxylabs has confirmed an annual run rate of $350 million and announced it has raised $130 million from Warburg Pincus in its first outside investment since its founding in 2015.</cite> <cite index="26-3">The company employs more than 2,000 people and serves over 350,000 customers worldwide.</cite>

<cite index="22-3">Oxylabs positions itself as a web intelligence platform that supplies AI model developers with real-time, large-scale internet data, with a proxy pool of over 175 million ethically-sourced consumer-device IPs enabling billions of daily requests while evading CAPTCHAs, geo-restrictions, and IP bans.</cite> <cite index="22-3">New products such as AI-native Web Unblocker and Headless Browser are designed to support autonomous AI agents that browse the web on behalf of humans.</cite> <cite index="25-3">Oxylabs previously acquired Webshare Software in 2022 and ScrapingBee in 2025 using internal cash reserves.</cite>

For architects, Oxylabs' $350M ARR bootstrapped to unicorn status without external capital signals that live web data infrastructure is now core AI stack, not accessory. The Warburg Pincus bet through a founders fund (typically liquidity + growth, not seed) and Oxylabs' 10x revenue multiple (10.3x on $350M ARR) reflect investor confidence that agentic systems—which need real-time, interrupt-free web context—will become the default. The company's GDPR and CCPA compliance, ethical IP sourcing, and 175M+ proxy IPs are defensible moats; acquisition appetite signals consolidation in data infrastructure space. Key watch: whether pricing power holds as agent-based web crawling scales.

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  3. 03 oxylabs.io oxylabs.io
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