# Ofer Vilenski

> Ofer Vilenski is founder of Bright Data. Bright Data on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Founder, Bright Data.

Ofer Vilenski is a founder of Bright Data, which began in 2014 as Luminati Networks, a division of the Hola VPN company he founded. With Derry Shribman he earlier founded KRFTech, a software tools company, in 1998 and Jungo, a maker of home gateway software that NDS bought in 2006.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofer-vilenski-030a861

## What Ofer builds

- [Bright Data](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data.md), graded C, 60/100, in Web scraping & crawling. Web Unlocker, SERP API, a hosted Browser API and residential proxies, with an official MCP server wrapping them. Founder, Bright Data, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Derry Shribman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/derry-shribman/), Founder, Bright Data

## Backed by

- [EMK Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/emk-capital/)

## Questions

### Who is Ofer Vilenski?

Ofer Vilenski is a founder of Bright Data, which began in 2014 as Luminati Networks, a division of the Hola VPN company he founded. With Derry Shribman he earlier founded KRFTech, a software tools company, in 1998 and Jungo, a maker of home gateway software that NDS bought in 2006.

### What does Bright Data make?

Anchor Terminal lists Bright Data from Bright Data. Web Unlocker, SERP API, a hosted Browser API and residential proxies, with an official MCP server wrapping them.

### Who has invested in Bright Data?

The sources our research read name EMK Capital.

### How are Ofer's tools graded?

Bright Data is graded C, 60 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://brightdata.com/about
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Data
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hola_(VPN)
- https://docs.brightdata.com/introduction
- https://brightdata.com/

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