Firecrawl blog · Jul 2026
Firecrawl shipped a custom relevance model for /search that returns the excerpts best answering each query and claims better accuracy and lower token usage.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Firecrawl is a YC-backed, San Francisco-based open-source context API for AI agents that searches, scrapes, crawls, and interacts with the live web to return clean markdown or structured data.
Primary product
Firecrawl API (context API for search, scrape, crawl, and interact)
Founded
2022
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
11-50 employees
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Web scraping software / AI web data API
Offices
14 jobs at Firecrawl
Business model
Stage
Series A
Total raised
$16.2M
Latest round
Series A · Aug 2025
Latest amount
$14.5M
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer
Co-Founder & CTO
Lean, founder-led, and engineering-heavy; the company says it aims for $100M ARR with fewer than 50 people and describes the team as largely former founders with developer backgrounds.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public compensation signals are sparse. Firecrawl’s YC job-board experiments advertised AI-agent roles at roughly $10k-$15k per year, later expanded to a $1M budget to hire three AI agents (with $5k/month postings for some roles); no standard human salary bands were found publicly.
Pricing
Freemium subscription/API with credits: free tier plus Hobby, Standard, Growth, Scale, and Enterprise plans; usage is metered in credits.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
≈$1.5M estimated ARR (2024 estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
1.5M
Firecrawl blog · Jul 2026
Firecrawl shipped a custom relevance model for /search that returns the excerpts best answering each query and claims better accuracy and lower token usage.
Firecrawl blog · Jul 2026
Firecrawl launched web-scale /monitor, extending monitoring from specific pages/sites to the broader web with deduping, scheduling, and alerts.
Firecrawl blog · Jun 2026
Firecrawl launched Research Index for agentic AI/ML research, covering arXiv papers and GitHub artifacts with retrieval and verification tools.
TechCrunch · Aug 2025
TechCrunch reported Firecrawl’s $14.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Y Combinator and others, and noted the company’s viral AI-agent hiring experiments and customer traction.
Firecrawl blog · Aug 2025
Firecrawl announced a $14.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners and said the new funding would support product expansion, open-source work, and hiring.