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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO.\n\nJan Čurn is founder and CEO of Apify, a platform for web scraping, browser automation and data tools for AI agents. He launched Apify with Jakub Balada in 2015 from the Y Combinator Fellowship in Mountain View, starting with a tool for writing web crawlers in front-end JavaScript, and moved the company to Prague in 2016.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jancurn/\n\n## What Jan 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 and CEO, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Jakub Balada](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jakub-balada/), Co-founder\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 Jan Čurn?\n\nJan Čurn is founder and CEO of Apify, a platform for web scraping, browser automation and data tools for AI agents. He launched Apify with Jakub Balada in 2015 from the Y Combinator Fellowship in Mountain View, starting with a tool for writing web crawlers in front-end JavaScript, and moved the company to Prague in 2016.\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 Jan'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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