# Arslan Ali

> Arslan Ali is co-founder. Olostep on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)
- Updated: 2026-10-28

Co-founder.

Arslan 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.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arslan-ali-00957b249/
- X: https://x.com/arslan_alion

## What Arslan builds

- [Olostep](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/olostep.md), graded B, 63.1/100, in Web scraping & 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.

## Works with

- [Hamza Ali](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/hamza-ali/), Co-founder and CEO

## Backed by

- [Vento Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/vento-ventures/)
- [Perplexity](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/perplexity/)

## Questions

### Who is Arslan Ali?

Arslan 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.

### What does Olostep Technologies, Inc. make?

Anchor 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.

### Who has invested in Olostep Technologies, Inc.?

The sources our research read name Vento Ventures and Perplexity.

### How are Arslan's tools graded?

Olostep is graded B, 63.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.olostep.com/
- https://www.olostep.com/about

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