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  "markdown": "Co-founder.\n\nArslan Ali co-founded Olostep and works on its product and technology, building infrastructure for web scraping, search APIs and structured web data. Before Olostep he was an engineer at Sameday, a Y Combinator Winter 2023 company, and at other Y Combinator startups including Legora and Zenfetch.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arslan-ali-00957b249/\n- X: https://x.com/arslan_alion\n\n## What Arslan builds\n\n- [Olostep](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/olostep.md), graded B, 63.1/100, in Web scraping \u0026 crawling. Scrape, crawl, map, batch and search API that returns markdown, HTML, JSON or screenshots, with JS rendering and residential IPs on every request. Co-founder, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Hamza Ali](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/hamza-ali/), Co-founder and CEO\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Vento Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/vento-ventures/)\n- [Perplexity](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/perplexity/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Arslan Ali?\n\nArslan Ali co-founded Olostep and works on its product and technology, building infrastructure for web scraping, search APIs and structured web data. Before Olostep he was an engineer at Sameday, a Y Combinator Winter 2023 company, and at other Y Combinator startups including Legora and Zenfetch.\n\n### What does Olostep Technologies, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Olostep from Olostep Technologies, Inc.. Scrape, crawl, map, batch and search API that returns markdown, HTML, JSON or screenshots, with JS rendering and residential IPs on every request.\n\n### Who has invested in Olostep Technologies, Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name Vento Ventures and Perplexity.\n\n### How are Arslan's tools graded?\n\nOlostep is graded B, 63.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.olostep.com/\n- https://www.olostep.com/about\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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