Firecrawl raised a $14.5 million Series A round led by Nexus Venture Partners. The funding follows rapid adoption of its web data infrastructure platform, which has attracted more than 350,000 developers.
The San Francisco-based company provides a developer-first platform that makes web data programmable for AI applications. Firecrawl offers APIs and tools that handle crawling, scraping and structuring web content, helping customers like Zapier, Shopify and Replit integrate real-time, reliable data into their products. Its open-source project has also gained traction, surpassing 48,000 GitHub stars.
With the new funding, Firecrawl plans to expand its proprietary Fire-Engine technology for faster, more reliable data extraction. It will continue rolling out advanced product features like semantic crawling and automated summaries and build a marketplace model that compensates publishers when AI systems use their content. Additionally, the company is actively hiring engineers, AI specialists and developer advocates.
