What Usearch does

Usearch is an Israel-based, privately-held data infrastructure company founded in 2018 that converts the public web into structured datasets for enterprise consumers. It crawls and processes content from more than 80 million websites, PDFs, and CSV files, then delivers machine-readable data — including titles, descriptions, and full text — through APIs and managed data pipelines. Its core product surface consists of Custom Web Data Pipelines (managed end-to-end data delivery into customer-defined schemas), a News API covering 2 billion articles with 500,000 new uploads per day, a Search API, Market Signals and Data Feeds, a Data Archive going back to 2008, and a packaged Market and Competitive Intelligence Platform on top.

The underlying technology relies on AI-powered dataset generation that automates extraction, normalization, and structuring at scale, combined with proprietary enrichment and tagging layers for news content. The company maintains an archive of approximately 5 billion webpages and has reported 100 billion processed API search requests and 10,000 custom search engines built for customers, implying meaningful enterprise usage of its infrastructure even though no customer logos are publicly disclosed.

Usearch monetizes through enterprise subscriptions and usage-based API access, with quote-based pricing that is not publicly disclosed. The go-to-market blends consultative enterprise sales — anchored by 'Schedule a Demo' — with a self-serve 'Start Free Trial' motion aimed at mid-market users. With a reported headcount of 1–10, a single disclosed funding event in March 2022 (involving Atooro Fund), and no publicly named customers or leadership team, the company operates as a small, founder-led infrastructure provider whose commercial footprint remains unverified.

Name

Usearch

Legal name

Usearch

Website

https://usearch.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Usearch is an Israel-based AI-powered web data infrastructure platform that converts unstructured content from 80 million+ sources into structured datasets, serving enterprise customers via managed data pipelines, APIs, and competitive intelligence products.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Web Data Infrastructure

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (519290), Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

General Web Portals & Start Pages (BPAMAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Recommendation & Discovery Engines (content/product) (BPAMAAAG), Web Archiving, Cache & Snapshot Services (BPAMAAAL)

Keywords

• Web data extraction
• News API services
• Data pipeline infrastructure
• Market intelligence data
• Structured web datasets

Headquarters

HQ city

Herzliya

HQ country

Israel

HQ region

Middle East

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. API Access and Data Services: Revenue generated through API access to News API, Search API, Data Archive, and Market Signals services. Customers pay for access to structured web data and datasets, likely on a usage or subscription basis based on query volume and data requirements.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Usearch is an AI-powered web data extraction and transformation platform that converts unstructured web content from over 80 million websites, PDFs, and CSV files into structured, machine-readable datasets. It delivers a portfolio of products including the News API (covering 2 billion news articles), a Data Archive of web pages since 2008, Market Signals/Data Feeds, and end-to-end Custom Web Data Pipelines built and managed for enterprise customers.

Product overview

Usearch is a data infrastructure platform offering a unified portfolio of products centered on web data collection, processing, and delivery. The core offering is Custom Web Data Pipelines, which serves as the main platform for building and managing data pipelines from any source to any schema. Supporting this core are the Search API and News API (API products providing programmatic access to search and news data), Market Signals and Data Feeds (AI-powered automatic dataset generation from 80+ million sources), and Data Archive (historical web data access since 2008). The Market and Competitive Intelligence Platform sits at the top as a comprehensive solution for market research and competitive analysis. The architecture connects these products through shared data infrastructure, with the APIs providing access to collected and enriched data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Custom Web Data Pipelines End-to-end managed web data pipelines built and operated by Usearch, delivering clean, structured web data from any public source to any customer schema so engineering teams do not need to build scraping infrastructure themselves.
• News API Searchable API providing access to 2 billion news articles with 500,000 new articles added daily, delivering tagged and enriched news from news sites, journals, PR sites, company websites, and social media.
• Search API Web search API providing programmatic access to Usearch's search infrastructure and data capabilities.
• Market Signals and Data Feeds AI-powered service that automatically generates structured datasets from more than 80 million websites, PDF and CSV files, converting the web into a large structured database.
• Data Archive Historical web data archive containing billions of web pages and news articles in machine-readable format, including title, description and full text of every webpage published since 2008.
• Market and Competitive Intelligence Platform Platform solution for market and competitive intelligence providing tools and data to discover market trends and competitive insights using Usearch's web data infrastructure.

Quantifiable outcome

• Eliminates engineering time required to build web data infrastructure

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Bright Data: Bright Data is a leading web data platform offering large-scale data collection, proxy networks, and structured datasets. It directly competes with Usearch's core offering of structured web data and dataset generation.
• Apify: Apify provides a web scraping and automation platform with APIs and marketplace of scrapers. It competes with Usearch's Custom Web Data Pipelines and News/Search APIs for enterprise web data extraction customers.
• Diffbot: Diffbot uses AI to extract structured data from web pages and offers a large knowledge graph. It directly competes with Usearch's AI-powered structured dataset generation and web archive capabilities.
• Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub): Zyte provides enterprise web data extraction tools, APIs, and managed services. It competes with Usearch's custom data pipeline and structured web data delivery offerings.
• SerpApi: SerpApi offers structured search engine results APIs for real-time data extraction. It overlaps with Usearch's Search API and Market Signals products for search and market intelligence use cases.
• NewsAPI (newsapi.org): NewsAPI provides a JSON news search API with global news sources. It competes directly with Usearch's News API offering for news monitoring and media intelligence use cases.
• Import.io: Import.io delivers enterprise-grade web data extraction and integration, including APIs and managed datasets. It is comparable to Usearch in serving enterprise customers needing structured web data pipelines.

Emerging players

• Octoparse: Octoparse offers no-code web scraping tools and data services, partially overlapping with Usearch's pipeline and dataset generation capabilities, particularly for mid-market customers.

Broad incumbents

• Databricks: Databricks is a broad data and AI platform with extensive data ingestion and marketplace capabilities. It is a broader incumbent that could absorb similar workloads Usearch serves through its Mosaic AI and Marketplace offerings.
• Bing Web Search API (Microsoft): Microsoft's Bing Web Search API is a large incumbent offering web search and news APIs backed by Microsoft's infrastructure. It competes with Usearch's Search and News APIs at the lower end of the enterprise market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/UsearchEngine
• Facebookfacebook.com/UsearchEngine

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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