# Jakub Balada (slim)

> Jakub Balada is co-founder. Apify MCP Server on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder.

Jakub 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.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbalada/

## What Jakub builds

- [Apify MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/apify-mcp.md), graded BB, 76.5/100, in Web scraping & 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.

## Works with

- [Jan Čurn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jan-curn/), Co-founder and CEO

## Backed by

- [Reflex Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/reflex-capital/)
- [INCOMMING ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/incomming-ventures/)

## Questions

### Who is Jakub Balada?

Jakub 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.

### What does Apify make?

Anchor Terminal lists Apify MCP Server from Apify.

### Who has invested in Apify?

The sources our research read name Reflex Capital and INCOMMING ventures.

### How are Jakub's tools graded?

Apify MCP Server is graded BB, 76.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jancurn/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbalada/
- https://apify.com/
- https://apify.com/contact

These 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.