Firecrawl's Series A funding round, led by Nexus Venture Partners, announces participation from Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke and Y Combinator. The company, founded in 2022, offers a web crawler used by 350,000 developers and notable clients such as Shopify and some of the largest hedge funds. Firecrawl's recent release includes an API supporting search, with future plans for natural language prompts. CEO Caleb Peffer highlighted the partnership as a validation moment, particularly noting Lütke's involvement.
I actually fell out of my chair. And Abhishek, as a great Investor does, caught the chair and me as I was falling. I think that was a clear signal that he was the right partner.
Firecrawl offers a popular open-source web crawler for developers and AI agents, with a commercially supported version available through API. It's used by 350,000 developers, has nearly 50,000 stars on GitHub.
Gaining Lütke as an investor was the best kind of validation. We saw his email come in. The Firecrawl crew immediately emailed him to welcome him as a customer, but got no response.
The startup also just released an API that supports search and will soon add support for natural language prompts.
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