AI Crawler Firecrawl Wins 14.5 million dollars, still looking to employ agents as employees

The co -founder and CEO of Firecrawl Calib Bever knew the moment when the investor was found to lead his series A.

He was at the coffee meeting with Abhishek Sharma from Nexus Venture Partner at The Blue Bottle at San Francisco’s South Park (Favorite VC chase). While describing the company’s future, he was so moving to the point that his chair was inclined.

“I actually fell from a chair. I see you, as a great investor does. This looked as a symbol of how the founder/investor’s relationship. “I think this was a clear indication that it was the right partner.”

On Tuesday, Firecrawl announced the Nexus series with the participation of the CEO of Shopify Tobias Lütke and the current investor Y Combinator.

Firecrawl provides a famous creeping source on the web of developers and artificial intelligence agents, with a commercial supported release through API. It is used by 350,000 developers, nearly 50,000 stars On GitHub and its prominent customers, it includes Shopify, Refore and Zapier as well as “some of the largest hedge boxes in the world,” said Pefer Techcrunch. He says the company is already profitable.

The startup company has also released an application programming interface that supports research and will soon add support to natural language demands. The co -founder and CTO Nicolas SilbersStein Camara indicated.

PEFFer, who participated in the founding of Firecrawl in 2022 with Camara and CMO Eric Ciarala, said that getting Lütke as an investor was “the best type of validity.”

They got it via brave email after the discovery of the Shopify founder has subscribed to trying their products through the self -service portal.

“We have seen his e -mail come,” said Pefer. The Firecrawl crew immediately sent him to welcome him as a customer, but he did not respond. Two months later, some people infiltrated Firecrawl to hold the Foundation. So Pefer took his shot and sent an email to Lütke again, noting that they like him to participate in their next tour.

This time, Lütke responded with compliments about her products. It was in.

While Ai Web Crawles A reputation is somewhat doubtful these days, Mostly due to the bad actors That ignores Robot.txt filesThey are also a necessary part of the world of prosperous artificial intelligence. Amnesty International is trained in the web, The agents need access to web pages to perform their dutiesAnd institutions need reptiles intended to consume their web sites for training and operations.

Firecrawl founders also hope to help treat frustrated parts in their industry. They are working on tools to help web owners, publishers and other content creators “get their salaries when artificial intelligence uses their content. We believe this is what should be it.”

While there was a lot of efforts on this idea of great names such as Adobe and Getty As well as startups Like Briyaand Calliope networksOthers, PEFFer feels that Firecrawl has an advantage because it already works with those who rid the data.

“We already have one side of the market,” he said. “What we want to do is just connecting this aspect of the market to the owners of the web and publishers.”

Interestingly, Firecrawl also went viral a few months ago for reasons unrelated to the open source tool. They have been published M to the YC job council is looking to employ the agent of Amnesty International as an employee for a salary of $ 15,000 Perhaps the first work announcement for an agent employee, ever.

This job research did not result One million dollars to employ many agents and developers who built, and tried again. Pefer said that the applicants were immersed, but the company has not yet rented anything. The founders realized that the evaluation and management of the agent’s employees wanted to be a job in itself. So far they are looking for the chief of staff of artificial intelligence.

PEFFer from Firecrawl will Be on stage in a break in October To discuss everything he learned in a session covering the pros and cons of employing artificial intelligence agents as first employees.