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Firecrawl raises $75M Series B, launches Alexandria data router

The web-scraping-for-AI startup adds Smash Capital-led funding and a new product that routes agent queries across paid data sources.

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What to know

  • Firecrawl raised $75M in Series B funding led by Smash Capital, with Altos Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Freestyle, and Offline Ventures also participating.
  • The company now claims over 1.5 million developers building with its API, 350,000+ signed-up developers, and 48,000 GitHub stars, with customers including Zapier, Shopify, and Replit.
  • New product Alexandria routes AI agent queries across paid sources (Wikimedia Enterprise, Firecrawl's own Research/Developer/Government indexes) plus the live web, reportedly improving answer quality 21% over built-in web tools.
  • Firecrawl says the funding will also build payment infrastructure so publishers and data contributors get compensated when AI agents use their content.

“People have licensed data for training, but almost no one gets paid when an AI agent actually uses what they know.”

Caleb Peffer, Co-founder and CEO of Firecrawl · WOWTALE ↗ · Sep 21

Caleb Peffer Co-founder and CEO of FirecrawlEric Ciarla Co-founder of FirecrawlNicolas Silberstein Camara Co-founder of FirecrawlSmash Capital Lead investor in the Series B

Firecrawl raises $75M Series B, launches Alexandria data router
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    Firecrawl launches Alexandria, a data-source router

    WOWTALE described Alexandria as a router that decides where an AI agent should look for information, drawing on paid deals with Wikimedia Enterprise plus Firecrawl's Research, Developer, and Government indexes and the live web; Firecrawl said agents using Alexandria scored 21% higher on answer quality than those using built-in web tools.

    “We're building a library for the world's knowledge.”
    — Caleb Peffer
    1. 2 outlets Firecrawl Raises $75M Series B, Launches Alexandria

      first by WOWTALE, 1d ago · also FinSMEs

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  2. background

    FinSMEs details investor lineup and fund use — FinSMEs reported the round was led by Smash Capital with Altos Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Freestyle, and Offline Ventures participating, and that funds will expand Firecrawl's Alexandria library, deepen indexes, add direct first-party source connections, and build payment infrastructure for data contributors.

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    Firecrawl announces $75M Series B on its blog

    Firecrawl published a blog post announcing the raise, citing over 350,000 signed-up developers, 48,000 GitHub stars on its open-source project, customers including Zapier, Shopify, and Replit, and plans to build a marketplace so publishers get paid when AI uses their content.

  4. background

    Firecrawl closes a $14.5M Series A — Firecrawl raised a $14.5 million Series A round, which preceded the newly announced Series B.

  5. background

    Caleb Peffer and co-founders start Firecrawl — Firecrawl was founded by Caleb Peffer (CEO), Eric Ciarla, and Nicolas Silberstein Camara, spinning out of their earlier product Mendable, a documentation-chat tool used by Snapchat, Coinbase, and MongoDB, after finding customers kept rebuilding the same web-data infrastructure.