📝 Firecrawl raises $14.5M

Liam Gill
August 20, 2025

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Firecrawl, the open-source web crawler turned profitable startup, has secured a $14.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke and Y Combinator. Since its founding in 2022, Firecrawl has gained traction with 350,000 developers and notable enterprise customers, including Shopify, Replit, Zapier, and some of the world’s largest hedge funds, while expanding its API to support search and soon natural language prompts. The startup is carving out a unique position in the AI ecosystem by enabling enterprises to deploy personalized crawlers for their own websites and by addressing a long-standing industry challenge: helping publishers and content creators get compensated when AI uses their work. Firecrawl’s approach to the market is both technical and creative, from pioneering tools for AI agents to generating viral attention with its tongue-in-cheek job ad for AI “employees,” which ultimately led the team to rethink and expand into hiring AI developers. CEO Caleb Peffer emphasizes that this combination of open-source credibility, enterprise utility, and innovative thinking underpins the company’s strategy to connect web scraping operations with content owners, potentially redefining how web data is accessed and monetized in the AI era.

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