Sustainability at Oxylabs

Supporting women in tech

Oxylabs encourages women to try out IT and engineering careers. In 2023, we partnered with Women Go Tech to facilitate opportunities for women to acquire technical skills and knowledge and develop their careers in IT, engineering, and other tech-related roles.

OxyCon

Each year, OxyCon connects top industry experts from across the globe, providing a platform for them to explore the most pressing issues and advancements in public data acquisition. Coming from different industries and backgrounds, web scraping experts share their experiences and answer the most pressing questions.

Project 4β partnerships

Through its pro bono initiative "Project 4β", Oxylabs actively supports data-driven academic and investigative research, dedicated to important social questions and missions. Oxylabs provides its "4β" partners — academic institutions, individual researchers, and non-profit organizations — with the know-how, infrastructure, and resources.

AI/ML Board

Oxylabs collaborates with the AI & ML Advisory Board, which reaffirms our commitment to innovation and provides expertise and guidance on new technology developments. The Board comprises leading figures in the machine learning, AI, and data science industries, most of whom have experience working for highly reputable organizations, such as NASA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and UCL.

Cybersecurity

As an industry leader, we are committed to a security-first mindset, bringing it to the forefront of our operations, client relations, and innovation efforts. To strengthen our stance on cybersecurity and share expertise with the wider tech community, we have joined the European Cyber Security Organization (ESCO), Global Cyber Alliance, and Information Systems Security Association.

Patents

In 2023, Oxylabs continued to invest in R&D and protect its technology through patent applications. Our patent portfolio increased by 25 granted patents and now consists of 81 patents globally. Newly issued patents cover systems that allow improved generation of web requests for scraping.

Climate contribution

Two years in a row we made voluntary climate contributions, which partially covered our generated GHG emissions. We believe, however, that the most important goal for the company is to find ways to reduce its own emissions. Before we can enable such decarbonisation plans we invest in nature restoration projects. As carbon removal will play an essential role in reaching global climate targets, we chose to support the nature-based project in Peru as it prevents deforestation in Peru's most biodiverse Amazon rainforests.

Environmental partnerships

We actively support external climate action by forming partnerships with governmental and nongovernmental organizations protecting the environment. In 2023, we maintained existing partnerships while also initiating new ones. The organizations we worked with include the Ancient Wood Foundation, Save the Baltic Sea initiative, and the Environmental Protection Department of Lithuania. For the latter, we have pro bono created an award-winning tool for efficiently identifying online ads that suggest environmental regulation infringements.

Renewable energy at Cyber City

Oxylabs headquarters in Vilnius (Lithuania) are based in the Cyber City, a brand new office building complex that has revitalized an underutilized city district. Now our premises are in the BREEAM and Fitwel certification process, which demonstrate the quality, performance, and sustainability credentials of the buildings. 

The Cyber City office is 100% powered by renewable energy and has other various features which help reduce energy consumption and achieve energy efficiency.