Firecrawl Raises $14.5M Series A Led by Nexus to Boost Its Open-Source AI Crawler
AI crawler startup Firecrawl secured a $14.5M Series A led by Nexus, with Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke and Y Combinator backing the profitable open-source crawler. Used by 350,000 developers and enterprises like Shopify, Replit and hedge funds, Firecrawl offers a commercial API for web crawling and search. The team is now building tools to help content creators monetize AI scraping and famously sought to hire AI agents as early employees.