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Etsy SEO SaaS · est. 2016 · bootstrapped, no VC · about 22 staff
👤 Anthony Wolf (& wife, co-founders) (Built shopping-search engines since 1999 (incl. Microsoft Bing); his wife's Etsy shop was customer zero.)🌐 siteLinkedIn

Etsy hides its search data. eRank rebuilt it from millions of shops and handed sellers the map — free, then paid.

Will it work? · our read
On rented land. eRank turned Etsy's data blackout into a 2.5M-seller freemium funnel. Its moat is the aggregated keyword dataset plus Etsy-forum mindshare — but Etsy owns the pipe.
01How the money moves
Etsy hides keyword & search-volume data from its sellers
eRank aggregates it across millions of shops; the free tier pulls sellers in
A slice upgrades to $5.99-$29.99/mo recurring
02The numbers
$2.6MEstimateest. ARR, self-funded
2025
the sentence on the page/ eRank eRank Stow , Ohio , United States erank.com Other Analytics Software Valuation $7.9M 2025 Revenue $2.6M (Est.) Funding $0 Team 24 Founded 2016 Company Revenue Valuation and Funding Founder…
2.5M+
Etsy sellers on the platform
$2.6M
est. ARR, self-funded
$5.99
entry paid plan / month
2.5M+ is cumulative registered sellers (first-party); revenue is a third-party estimate. eRank plans
About $2.6M ARR (Latka est.), bootstrapped, no VC.
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SourcesSources last checked 25 August 2026
Revenue ($2.6M ARR) is a GetLatka third-party estimate, not first-party — and Latka has documented accuracy issues — so it is marked EST / not independently confirmed. The 2.5M+ figure is eRank's own site (first-party) but counts cumulative registered sellers, not payers; against about $2.6M revenue that implies well under 1% pay — labeled our read. Team size (about 22) comes from data-aggregator profiles, not eRank. Founder origin (built for his wife's shop, launched as EtsyRank Jan 2016), pricing, and Etsy's native Marketplace Insights are first-party / well-documented. No drama invented; the 'free-tier-as-wedge' strategy is our read, not a founder quote. We never score you.