Web scraping startup Firecrawl closes $75M investment
Firecrawl Inc., a provider of web scraping tools for artificial intelligence agents, today announced that it has raised $75 million in funding. Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Smash Ventures led the Series B round. It was joined by Y Combinator, Altos Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Freestyle and Offline Ventures. AI agents rely on information from […] The post Web scraping startup…
Firecrawl Inc., a web scraping tool provider for AI agents, has raised $75 million in Series B funding, led by Smash Ventures. This investment round also saw participation from Y Combinator, Altos Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Freestyle, and Offline Ventures. Firecrawl's platform addresses the technical challenges AI agents face when collecting web data, providing an agent-optimized search engine and automated features like smart wait and interaction with dynamically loaded web pages.
The startup's new cloud service, Alexandria, combines web data with third-party information, offering a single application interface for easy access. Firecrawl plans to expand its offerings and add more data providers, and will use the funding to enhance its services.
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