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  "markdown": "Co-founder.\n\nJakub Balada co-founded Apify, a platform for web scraping, browser automation and data tools for AI agents, with Jan Čurn in 2015. The pair started it through the Y Combinator Fellowship in Mountain View before returning to the Czech Republic in 2016 to raise a seed round and build the company in Prague.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbalada/\n\n## What Jakub builds\n\n- [Apify MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/apify-mcp.md), graded BB, 76.5/100, in Web scraping \u0026 crawling. Exposes thousands of Apify Store Actors (scrapers, crawlers, automations) as dynamically discovered MCP tools, hosted at mcp.apify.com or run locally; supports OAuth, API tokens and agentic payments (x402 prepaid tokens, Skyfire). Co-founder, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Jan Čurn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jan-curn/), Co-founder and CEO\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Reflex Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/reflex-capital/)\n- [INCOMMING ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/incomming-ventures/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Jakub Balada?\n\nJakub Balada co-founded Apify, a platform for web scraping, browser automation and data tools for AI agents, with Jan Čurn in 2015. The pair started it through the Y Combinator Fellowship in Mountain View before returning to the Czech Republic in 2016 to raise a seed round and build the company in Prague.\n\n### What does Apify make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Apify MCP Server from Apify. Exposes thousands of Apify Store Actors (scrapers, crawlers, automations) as dynamically discovered MCP tools, hosted at mcp.apify.com or run locally; supports OAuth, API tokens and agentic payments (x402 prepaid tokens, Skyfire).\n\n### Who has invested in Apify?\n\nThe sources our research read name Reflex Capital and INCOMMING ventures.\n\n### How are Jakub's tools graded?\n\nApify MCP Server is graded BB, 76.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jancurn/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbalada/\n- https://apify.com/\n- https://apify.com/contact\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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