So for new companies the data (that a lot of time IS publicly available) cost a lot of money, i.e. Api access or charing per requests. A lot of time companies s

So for new companies the data (that a lot of time IS publicly available) cost a lot of money, i.e. Api access or charing per requests. A lot of time companies start with scraping and then once they have more customers (and data access price can be shared amongst them) they switch to paying for it.