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Funding and backers

Total raised
$24M
1 round on record
Latest round
$24M
Series A · Nov 2024 · 23 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
2
AIX Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners
The money's age
Due for its next round
23 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Nov 5, 2024 Raised a round Series A $24M 2023 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series A Nov 2024 $24M — axios.com
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Overview

TollBit is an AI infrastructure company that lets website owners create agent-optimized versions of their sites, control access and monetize traffic from AI bots. Its platform gives publishers analytics on bot traffic and aims to compensate creators for the data used by AI applications. The company is based in the United States.

News

News Digiday 8 months ago
The Athletic invests in live blogs, video to insulate sports coverage from AI scraping
As the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics collide, The Athletic is leaning into live blogs and video to keeps fans locked in, and AI bots at bay.
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News Digiday 8 months ago
WTF is the IAB's AI Accountability for Publishers Act (and what happens next)?
IAB introduced a draft bill to make AI companies pay for scraping publisher content. How it differs from copyright law, and what comes next.
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News Digiday 8 months ago
Media Briefing: A solid Q4 gives publishers breathing room as they build revenue beyond search
Q4 gave publishers a win - but as ad dollars return, AI-driven discovery shifts mean growth in 2026 will hinge on relevance, not reach.
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News WIRED 8 months ago
AI Bots Are Now a Significant Source of Web Traffic
New data shows AI bots pushing deeper into the web, prompting publishers to roll out more aggressive defenses.
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News Digiday 11 months ago
Inside The Atlantic's AI bot blocking strategy
The Atlantic's CEO explains how it evaluates AI crawlers to block those that bring no traffic or subscribers, and to provide deal leverage.
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Award Digiday 11 months ago
Ranking is out, visibility is in as publishers chip away at AI search optimization
Publishers need a new metrics stack that tracks how they are cited in AI engines and ties it all to clicks and revenue.
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News VKTR.com 12 months ago
The Internet Is Being Overrun by AI Bots - And Websites Are Paying the Price
AI scraper bots haunt the web, draining traffic, dodging robots.txt and overwhelming servers. Here's how site owners are trying to fight back.
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News Columbia Journalism Review 12 months ago
How AI browsers sneak past blockers and paywalls.
OpenAI's Atlas and Perplexity's Comet present a new challenge for media companies that want to limit AI access.
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News Editor and Publisher 12 months ago
Revenue roundup: Can AI marketplaces save publishing's future?
The internet once promised publishers limitless reach - then siphoned away their revenue. Now, generative AI threatens to deliver answers without clicks, leaving journalism with vanishing audiences and empty ad slots. Court battles may drag on for years,
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Tech stack

The technologies known for TollBit, by layer.
Languages
Go
JavaScript
Frameworks & libraries
React.js
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Developer tools
Git
Practices & domains
CI/CD
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
100% ▼

Jobs

≈ $145k – $277k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • 6+ years exp
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JavaScript
React.js
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Financials

Total raised
$24M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series A 2024 $24M Details