Firecrawl
YC S22San Francisco, US · Founded 2024 · 3 employees · Hiring · 1 known investors
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Firecrawl provides an API to search, scrape, and interact with web content at scale, converting live internet data into clean markdown and structured data optimized for large language models, agents, and AI-native applications.
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Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S22)
Firecrawl was founded in 2024 by Caleb Peffer, Eric Ciarla, and Nicolas Silberstein Camara.
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Caleb Pefferin𝕏Co-founder and CEOCo-founder and CEO of Firecrawl, which provides an API for scraping and converting web content into structured data for AI applications.
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Eric Ciarlain𝕏Co-Founder & Chief Growth OfficerFounder of Firecrawl, an API platform that enables searching, scraping, and interacting with web content at scale for AI-native applications.
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Nicolas Silberstein Camarain𝕏CTO & Co-FounderFounder and CTO of Firecrawl, which provides an API for web scraping and data extraction that converts internet content into structured formats for AI applications.
Investors · 1
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$14.5M disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2025
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Competitors · 6
by search overlapApify1200 shared keywordsApify provides a platform for web data extraction and browser automation, enabling developers to build web crawlers and data scraping tools using JavaScript. The platform serves developers and AI builders globally who need to extract and process web data at scale.
ScrapingBee826 shared keywordsScrapingBee provides a web scraping API that converts web pages into clean, structured data formats (Markdown, plain text, or parsed JSON) for training AI models and extracting data at scale. The platform handles JavaScript rendering, proxy rotation, and CAPTCHA challenges to simplify data collection workflows.
DataCamp690 shared keywordsDataCamp is a learning platform for teams that teaches data and AI skills through hands-on coursework accessible via web browser and mobile app. It serves enterprise customers and development teams seeking to build technical capabilities.
Zenrows579 shared keywordsZenRows Extract is a web scraping tool that converts supported websites into typed JSON without requiring custom parsers or CSS selectors, reading a page's DOM to automatically detect and return fields such as prices, ratings, contacts, and listings. It maintains prebuilt extractors for specific sites (e.g. e-commerce, travel, real estate, and professional profiles) and offers a css_extractor option for unsupported pages.
Cloudflare Turnstile538 shared keywordsCloudflare provides a global cloud network platform delivering security, performance, and development services through sixty-plus integrated services including SASE, application security, and full-stack development infrastructure.
OpenAI430 shared keywordsOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company focused on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) with emphasis on safety and beneficial outcomes for humanity.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Firecrawl do?
- Firecrawl provides an API to search, scrape, and interact with web content at scale, converting live internet data into clean markdown and structured data optimized for large language models, agents, and AI-native applications.
- Who founded Firecrawl?
- Firecrawl was founded by Caleb Peffer, Eric Ciarla, Nicolas Silberstein Camara in 2024.
- Who are Firecrawl's investors?
- Firecrawl's investors include Y Combinator.
- How much funding has Firecrawl raised?
- Firecrawl has disclosed $14.5M raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.
- Where is Firecrawl headquartered?
- Firecrawl is headquartered in San Francisco, US.