Kevin Sahin

Bootstrapped @ScrapingBee to $5m ARR (exited)

Now acquiring SaaS (dev-tools/API/data) between $300k-$1m ARR. DM opened

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

Big news! @ScrapingBee has been acquired by Oxylabs’ Group 🎉

@PierreDeWulf and I (almost) bootstrapped @ScrapingBee from day one, grew to 2500+ customers all around the world, and built a team of amazing people.

This is a milestone we could only dream of when we launched ScrapingBee just a few years ago.

Oxylabs’s group is the perfect match to take ScrapingBee to the next level 💪
They are not only the market leader, but they know how to move fast.

I’m already learning and implementing a ton of things that are improving ScrapingBee, and making me grow as an entrepreneur/operator.

I’m incredibly grateful to our amazing team, my incredible co-founder @PierreDeWulf our families, our early customers who trusted us, our investors @tinyseedfund @robwalling @einarvollset

Thanks to all the people who worked hard to make this deal happen: our M&A advisors at Discretion Capital Dan,Scott and @einarvollset , the incredible team at Oxylabs, Julius, Jurgis and of course our lawyers.

The journey was not easy but it was 100% worth it.

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

@Divs_King Quelle banque te finance ?

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

@EricJorgenson Great book 🙏 Unfortunately you’re right about France.

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

@levelsio Try some some Michelin starred restaurants in France!

Same for French palaces !
I rarely see this level of service anywhere else.

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

@Dimillian Please tell the world how "AGA" are taxed in France!

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

@JordBHansen @ScrapingBee @PierreDeWulf @Oxylabs_io I’ll be in Portland, not sure about Iceland !

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

I recently stepped down as CEO of @ScrapingBee .

@PierreDeWulf and I started ScrapingBee in 2019. We were two engineers with no network, no funding, and honestly no idea what we were doing on the business side.

Fast forward to 2025: @Oxylabs_io acquires us. I stay on to help with the transition, and what was supposed to be "just a transition year" turned into one of the best learning experience in my career.

Working inside a 500+ person organization taught me things I couldn't have learned running a 6 person team:
✅How to navigate complex decision-making across departments
✅ How to implement the right metrics to have a better view of the business (hello KPI meetings) and act on it.
✅ How to let go of control (still working on this one) and hire/delegate

I'm grateful for every bit of it. To the Oxylabs team who welcomed us, to @PierreDeWulf who's been the best co-founder anyone could ask for, and to every ScrapingBee customer and team member who made the ride unforgettable.

ScrapingBee is now in great hands with @staskarolis 🔥

Moving forward I will still be involved as an advisor.

So here's what's next: I'm acquiring SaaS companies.

After 7+ years of building, scaling, and exiting a B2B SaaS, I want to find great products built by founders who are ready to move on — and give those products the next chapter they deserve.

If you're a SaaS founder thinking about selling or even just starting to think about it: send me a DM.

I'm looking for products in the $500K–$2m ARR range, profitable with a solid customer base. Ideally in the dev-tool / API / data space.

If you know someone who fits that description, I'd owe you one. Tag them or send them my way.

Let's go 💪

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

@JesseTinsley I want to learn how to acquire a SaaS for 2x ebidta !

I'm currently exploring acquiring a SaaS, expectations from founders are often 3-5x ARR.

[ScrapingBee @ScrapingBee]

Search results in milliseconds! We just rolled out our new feature - Fast Search API! Here’s what it does:
👉 Real-time organic search results + top news stories in <1 second
👉Clean, structured SERP data ready for LLMs and analytics
👉Scales for high-traffic workloads #scraping

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

@danpeguine @openclaw are you using it with opus 4.5?

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

@rauchg @adamwathan 🙏

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

@marcelpociot @steipete what are your top 3 use cases ?

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

@guilleflorvs Founder!

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

@yongfook You should talk to more VC backed founders!

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

As a French 🇫🇷, I'm also wondering what went wrong 🫤

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

What’s the best thing written about why the remarkably vigorous and inventive France of the 70s and 80s (TGV, Minitel, Ariane, Rafale, Concorde, the world’s preeminent nuclear grid…) has not been nearly as visible in the 21st century? What went wrong?

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

@mattwensing Congrats Matt!

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

@Travis_Jamison @tinyseedfund Congrats!

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

@yongfook You've never run any A/B tests for Bannerbear?

I get you point about people hiding behind it in the corporate world, but it's very useful especially for CRO in small companies too!

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

@VibeMarketer_ automate

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

@sobedominik @tryredreach Reddit guide

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

@DebbechWalid @ScrapingBee @PierreDeWulf Thanks Walid! No we’re not stopping anytime soon !

[Kevin Sahin @SahinKevin]

Big news! @ScrapingBee has been acquired by Oxylabs’ Group 🎉

@PierreDeWulf and I (almost) bootstrapped @ScrapingBee from day one, grew to 2500+ customers all around the world, and built a team of amazing people.

This is a milestone we could only dream of when we launched ScrapingBee just a few years ago.

Oxylabs’s group is the perfect match to take ScrapingBee to the next level 💪
They are not only the market leader, but they know how to move fast.

I’m already learning and implementing a ton of things that are improving ScrapingBee, and making me grow as an entrepreneur/operator.

I’m incredibly grateful to our amazing team, my incredible co-founder @PierreDeWulf our families, our early customers who trusted us, our investors @tinyseedfund @robwalling @einarvollset

Thanks to all the people who worked hard to make this deal happen: our M&A advisors at Discretion Capital Dan,Scott and @einarvollset , the incredible team at Oxylabs, Julius, Jurgis and of course our lawyers.

The journey was not easy but it was 100% worth it.