Tavily raises $25M to connect AI agents to the web
Tavily, a one-year-old startup born from the viral GPT Researcher project, has secured a $20 million Series A led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $25 million. The platform lets enterprises safely hook AI agents to real-time web data—crawling, searching and extracting insights—while enforcing company-specific policies. Early customers include Groq, Cohere, MongoDB and Writer. Competitors range from Exa and Firecrawl to OpenAI and Perplexity.