Bright Data Ltd.

Bright Data Ltd., founded in 2014 in Israel as Luminati Networks, is a leading web data platform providing tools for ethical web data collection, analysis, and intelligence. Established by Ofer Vilenski and Derry Shribman, the company aims to promote transparency and accessibility of public web data. Headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Bright Data serves over 20,000 organizations worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions, NGOs, and SMEs. It rebranded to its current name in 2020 to better align with its mission of making web data open, ethical, and transparent.

The company operates under a subscription-based SaaS business model offering multi-tiered plans ranging from self-service to enterprise solutions, including pay-as-you-go proxy and API usage. Its product portfolio includes proxy networks (residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile), a no-code web scraper IDE, a ready-to-use data sets marketplace, data collection APIs, and managed data services. Bright Data also runs The Bright Initiative, a program providing pro bono data access for societal benefit. Since its acquisition by EMK Capital in 2017, the company has maintained a bootstrapped growth strategy with no external venture funding and has expanded its presence globally, including offices in the United States.