TollBit

TollBit provides AI bot monetization solutions for publishers, allowing them to detect and manage AI bot traffic accessing their websites. The platform offers tools to enforce robots.txt policies, set custom pricing for bot access to content, and generate revenue from AI data scraping. It provides analytics dashboards to monitor bot activity and inform content strategy, enabling publishers to protect their content and generate new revenue streams from AI usage. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in New York City, TollBit has raised approximately $31M in Series A funding from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, S32, BDMI, AIX Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, and Operator Collective. The company addresses the growing tension between AI companies that scrape web content for training data and publishers who want compensation for their content, providing a market-based mechanism for licensing content access to AI crawlers and agents.