AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M, is still looking to hire agents as employees.
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AI crawler Firecrawl Raises $14.5M, Hiring Agents AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M, is still looking to hire agents as employees Firecrawl, the AI-powered web crawler, has raised $14.5M in a Series A and is still looking to hire agents as employees. The funding round, led by Nexus Venture Partners with participation from Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke and Y Combinator, marks a major milestone for the startup. Image Credits:Firecrawl Co-founder and CEO Caleb Peffer shared a memorable moment with Nexus investor Abhishek Sharma at a San Francisco coffee shop. Gesturing so energetically about Firecrawl’s future, Peffer accidentally tipped his chair—but Sharma caught both him and the chair. “That felt like a symbol of the founder/investor relationship,” Peffer said, calling it a clear signal that he had found the right partner. Firecrawl’s growth and reach Firecrawl provides an open-source web crawler for developers and AI agents, with a commercial API version. It has attracted 350,000 developers, nearly 50,000 GitHub stars, and high-profile custo…