Firecrawl raises $75 million Series B to expand web‑scraping platform
Firecrawl, a Los Angeles‑based startup that builds web‑scraping tools for artificial‑intelligence agents, announced a $75 million Series B financing. The round was led by Smash Ventures and included Y Combinator, Altos Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Freestyle and Offline Ventures.
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- Firecrawl closed a $75 million Series B round led by Smash Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Altos Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Freestyle and Offline Ventures.
- The startup offers an agent‑optimized scraper that can filter pages, wait for dynamic content, interact with forms, and extract PDFs, Word files and code datasets.
- Firecrawl launched the Alexandria data service, bundling tens of millions of scientific abstracts and code files via an API, and plans a self‑service licensing system.
The company’s platform offers an agent‑optimized search engine, a smart‑wait feature for dynamic pages, automatic interaction with forms or scroll actions, and extraction of PDFs, Word documents and code files. It also provides monitoring of web pages for changes. Firecrawl introduced a new cloud service called Alexandria, which aggregates tens of millions of scientific paper abstracts and code documentation into a single API, and plans to launch a self‑service content‑licensing system soon. The funding will be used to add more third‑party data providers and expand the service.
Firecrawl, which provides web scraping tools for AI agents, raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital
siliconangle.com · 22 September 2026
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