Web scraping API that handles headless browsers, proxies and anti-bot measures.
Pierre de Wulf
Co-founder of ScrapingBee, bootstrapped to $5M ARR and sold to Oxylabs
About Pierre de Wulf
Pierre de Wulf is a French software engineer and the co-founder of ScrapingBee, a web scraping API he built with his high-school friend Kevin Sahin starting in 2019.
The two had previously co-founded PricingBot, a price-monitoring service for e-commerce. With ScrapingBee they leaned on content marketing and SEO, and Pierre ran the technical and product side. The company joined TinySeed's Spring 2020 batch but was otherwise run lean, growing to more than 2,500 customers and around $5M ARR with a team of about six.
In June 2025 ScrapingBee was acquired by the Oxylabs group in an all-cash, eight-figure deal. Pierre now writes about growth, SEO and tech on X and is acquiring developer-tool, API and data SaaS businesses.
Products by Pierre de Wulf
Price-monitoring service for e-commerce stores, co-founded with Kevin Sahin.
Revenue
Pierre de Wulf has publicly reported ~$5M ARR (at exit) (as of 2025). Source
Exit story
by Kevin Sahin & Pierre de Wulf
- Revenue (monthly, log scale)
- First product
- Funding
- Exit
- Started 2019
- 2019First product: Started ScrapingBee with Kevin Sahin
- 2020Funding: Joined the TinySeed Spring 2020 accelerator batch
- 2025Exit: Sold ScrapingBee to the Oxylabs group in an eight-figure…
- 2025Revenue: Revenue ≈ $415K/month (self-reported)≈ $415K/mo proxyway.com
Timeline
- 2019 — Started ScrapingBee with Kevin Sahin.
- 2020 — Joined the TinySeed Spring 2020 accelerator batch.
- 2025 — Sold ScrapingBee to the Oxylabs group in an eight-figure all-cash deal.
How Pierre builds
- Win customers with genuinely useful technical content and SEO.
- Talk to users early, even by trading free credits for calls.
- Stay in control rather than chasing growth at all costs.
Pierre de Wulf FAQ
What did Pierre de Wulf build?
He co-founded ScrapingBee, a web scraping API, with Kevin Sahin in 2019 and grew it to around $5M ARR.
Who acquired ScrapingBee?
The Oxylabs group acquired ScrapingBee in June 2025 in an all-cash deal reported as eight figures.
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