Firecrawl Announces $14.5 Million in Series A Funding to Put Web Data on Tap for AI Agents
Round led by Nexus Venture Partners with participation from Y Combinator, Shopify's CEO Tobias Lütke and existing and new angel investors
Firecrawl is the fastest-growing commercial open-source scraping tool, radically transforming web data into AI-powered solutions
With over 350,000 users, Firecrawl is radically transforming how developers and AI teams access, process and leverage web data, enabling large-scale, real-time intelligence to accelerate AI innovation
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Firecrawl, a developer platform that unlocks web data for developers and AI agents, today announced an oversubscribed $14.5 million Series A funding round. The funding round, which brings Firecrawl's total funding to $16.2MM, is led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from existing investor Y Combinator, Shopify's CEO Tobias Lütke and new investors to meet the surging demand for clean data.
This new capital will fuel Firecrawl's continued growth, drive product innovation, and expand its global team of engineers and AI specialists.
In addition, Firecrawl plans to explore licensed partnerships that let content owners earn directly when their paywalled content powers AI helping to build a sustainable, profitable model for high quality content on the web.
"Firecrawl is how AI developers access web data. The web holds most of human knowledge, but it's messy, constantly changing, and hard to work with. Firecrawl makes that data accessible, structured, and ready for large language models," said Caleb Peffer, Co-Founder & CEO of Firecrawl. "More than 350,000 users rely on us to power their agents and apps with ...