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Tavily

Category: AI Agents

A real-time search engine and API designed specifically for AI agents and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows to access up-to-date and verified information from the web. Tavily was founded in 2023. The company is led by Rotem Weiss. Based in New York City, United States. Team size: 8. Total funding raised: $25 million. Latest round: Series A, $20.0M, 2025-08, led by Insight Partners. Key investors include ["Insight Partners","Alpha Wave Global","Sequoia"].

Founded
2023
Headquarters
New York City, United States
Team size
8
Total funding
$25 million

Value proposition

To provide AI agents with a reliable, fast, and secure way to access real-time, factual, and high-quality information from the web, thereby reducing hallucinations and improving the accuracy and efficiency of AI-driven applications.

Products and solutions

["Tavily Search API","Python library for easy integration","Integrations with popular AI frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex"]

Unique value

Tavily is unique in its focus on being a search engine built for AI agents rather than humans. It handles the entire process of searching, scraping, filtering, and extracting information in a single API call, delivering it in a format optimized for LLMs. This helps to reduce AI hallucinations and biases by providing accurate and reliable data.

Target customer

AI developers, data scientists, and businesses building applications with AI agents and Large Language Models (LLMs).

Industries served

["Artificial Intelligence","Software Development","Data Analytics and Business Intelligence","Cybersecurity"]

Technology advantage

The key technological advantage is the specialized API that simplifies the process of integrating real-time web data into AI applications. The business advantage stems from its rapid organic growth, strong developer adoption (over a million monthly downloads with no marketing spend), and significant venture capital backing, which positions it as a standard search layer for AI applications.

How they differentiate

Tavily differentiates itself by providing a search engine specifically designed for AI agents and developers, focusing on delivering real-time, accurate, and factual results for Large Language Models (LLMs). Its main focus is on enhancing the contextual understanding and memory mechanisms of LLMs, providing a seamless, real-time access to a vast repository of information for AI agents to perform complex tasks with greater accuracy and efficiency.

Main competitors

["Perplexity AI","Exa AI","Glean"]

Key partnerships

["IBM","Pillar Security","LangChain","LlamaIndex","Grok (and other model providers)"]

Notable customers

["IBM","Cohere","Groq","JetBrains"]

Major milestones

["Founded in 2023.","Secured $25 million in a Series A funding round to enhance AI agent web connectivity.","Reached over 1 million developers using its platform.","The co-founder, Assaf Elovic, founded the popular open-source AI agent GPT Researcher, which has over 20,000 stars on GitHub.","Acquired by Nebius for $275M in February 2026."]

Growth metrics

Tavily has over 1 million developers and 3 million+ monthly SDK downloads, achieved through organic, developer-led growth.

Market positioning

Tavily is positioned as a key player in the emerging AI agent and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) markets. It targets developers and companies building AI applications that require real-time web data. With over 1 million developers and 3M+ monthly SDK downloads, Tavily has established a strong foothold in the developer community. Acquired by Nebius in Feb 2026 for $275M.

Geographic focus

Tavily is headquartered in New York, USA, and its primary geographic focus is the North American market. However, as a provider of a globally accessible API, it serves a worldwide customer base.

Patents and IP

Information on patents or specific intellectual property is not publicly available.

About Rotem Weiss

Founder of Tavily, which started as an open-source project called GPT Researcher. He has a background in data science and computer science.

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