Firecrawl
Web data infrastructure for AI applications
CORE INFO
Firecrawl sells APIs and hosted tools to teams building AI applications and agents. The platform turns live websites and documents into machine-readable content that developers can use for search, retrieval, automation, and AI workflows.
- Series B: $75 million announced on September 22, 2026, led by Smash Capital, with participation from Altos Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Freestyle, and Offline Ventures.siliconangle.com
- User base: More than 1.5 million users, according to third-party coverage of the Series B.dealroom.co
- TechCrunch reported that Firecrawl raised a $14.5 million Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners in August 2025.techcrunch.com
WHY WE WOULD WORK AT FIRECRAWL
Build AGI's Eyes
Help make the live web usable by AI through search, scraping, crawling, browser automation, and Alexandria's knowledge-access layer. Your work directly advances Firecrawl's mission to make web data clean, scalable, and real time.
Shape a Fast-Growing Platform
Firecrawl grew from a 2022 YC startup into a Series B company with at least $91.2M raised and more than 1.5 million users. You'll help define the next chapter of a rapidly expanding AI infrastructure platform.
Engineer Hard Problems
Tackle real infrastructure challenges involving JavaScript rendering, managed proxies, rate limits, parsing, normalization, indexing, and agent interaction. Firecrawl turns messy websites and documents into Markdown, JSON, HTML, screenshots, and extracted data.
Work With Builders
About 80% of the team has a developer background and 80% are former founders, creating a highly technical, ownership-driven environment. The company is intentionally lean, aiming for major scale with fewer than 50 people.
Champion Open Source
Contribute to an AGPL-3.0 open-source project that has earned more than 150,000 GitHub stars and ranks among GitHub's top repositories. Firecrawl's developer-first approach reaches users through APIs, SDKs, CLI tools, and MCP integrations.
Create Broad AI Impact
Your work can power products used by Shopify, Canva, Apple, DoorDash, Replit, Zapier, and more than 150,000 companies. Firecrawl supports applications spanning research, coding agents, customer support, lead enrichment, government data, and enterprise knowledge bases.
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Web Data APIs
Search, Scrape, Crawl, and Map APIs convert live websites into Markdown, HTML, screenshots, metadata, and structured JSON. They provide machine-readable web content for AI applications and agents.
Browser Automation
Firecrawl's Interact capabilities let AI agents navigate dynamic websites, click, type, scroll, wait, and complete browser-based workflows. Managed proxies, JavaScript rendering, and rate-limit handling support reliable access at scale.
Document Extraction
Document parsing and Extract process PDFs, DOCX files, spreadsheets, webpages, and other sources into structured, schema-defined data. This supports RAG systems, knowledge bases, research, and enterprise workflows.
Knowledge Indexes
Firecrawl provides specialized Research, Developer, Government, and other indexes for domain-specific retrieval. Alexandria combines live web data, official providers, connectors, and Firecrawl indexes into a broader knowledge-access layer.
Open Source Infrastructure
The AGPL-3.0 open-source platform, REST APIs, SDKs, CLI, and MCP server give developers multiple ways to integrate Firecrawl. Hosted enterprise services add security controls, SLAs, dedicated support, and zero-data-retention options.