Firecrawl
Category: AI Developer Tools
Firecrawl provides an open-source web crawling bot for AI agents and models, enabling businesses to gather training data or interact with public websites. Firecrawl was founded in 2022. The company is led by Caleb Peffer. Based in San Francisco, California, United States. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $16.2 million. Latest round: Pre-Seed round on January 4, 2024. Key investors include Nexus Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Tobias Lütke (CEO of Shopify), Zapier, Abhinav Asthana (CEO of Postman), Matt McClure (Founder of Mux).
- Founded
- 2022
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Team size
- 11-50
- Total funding
- $16.2 million
Value proposition
The complete toolkit to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale — one API to turn websites into clean, LLM-ready data for AI agents and applications
Products and solutions
Open-source web data API platform: Search (web search with full content), Scrape (URL to markdown/JSON/screenshot), Interact (click, navigate, fill forms), Extract (structured data from prompts), Crawl, Firecrawl Research Index, MCP integration, CLI tools
Unique value
Firecrawl's open-source approach and ease of use for extracting AI-ready data from the web
Target customer
Developers and businesses needing AI-ready data from the web
Industries served
General data extraction, AI model training across various sectors
Technology advantage
Their solution simplifies data extraction, making it accessible for developers to integrate AI models with web data
How they differentiate
Firecrawl is an open-source, developer-first web data API purpose-built for AI agents and LLMs, offering search, scrape, interact, and extract capabilities in a single API with JavaScript rendering, smart caching, and token-efficient output
Main competitors
Scrapy, Beautiful Soup, Jina AI, Tavily, Apify
Key partnerships
Y Combinator (S22 batch), Wikimedia Enterprise (March 2026)
Notable customers
Shopify, Zapier, Replit, Apple, Canva, Lovable, Sierra, Gamma, Cognism, Aemon
Major milestones
Featured on GitHub's trending page shortly after release, Raised $14.5M Series A (Aug 2025), Shipped v2 with 10x faster scraping, 125K+ GitHub stars (top 100 repo), 1.25M+ developers signed up, 150K+ companies using Firecrawl, Partnered with Wikimedia Enterprise (Mar 2026), Launched Firecrawl Research Index, Launched /extract endpoint for structured data extraction
Growth metrics
125K+ GitHub stars (top 100 repo), 1.25M+ developers signed up, 150K+ companies using Firecrawl, 2.5M+ weekly downloads on npm and PyPI, 8B+ pages fetched
Market positioning
Positioned as the leading open-source web data infrastructure layer for AI agents and LLMs, trusted by 150K+ companies including Apple, Shopify, and Zapier, with 125K+ GitHub stars
Geographic focus
Global, given the nature of web data extraction and AI model training
Patents and IP
Not explicitly mentioned in available sources
About Caleb Peffer
Caleb Peffer is the Co-founder and CEO of Firecrawl. He has a background in building and scaling applications, having previously co-founded Mendable, a chat application for documents, and SideGuide, a tool for learning to code. He also has experience from roles at FlutterBricks and HallHub. He attended the University of New Hampshire.
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Official website: https://www.firecrawl.dev/