Tiny Fish
Palo Alto, US · Founded 2024 · 90 employees on LinkedIn · 6 known investors
TinyFish provides a single API for web-interacting AI agents, combining web search, page fetching, a real browser-rendering engine, and autonomous agents that can navigate pages, fill forms, and authenticate into sites to return structured JSON. It is aimed at developers and teams building production agent workflows that depend on dynamic pages, authenticated flows, and reliable structured outputs.
Also known as Tiny Fish Inc · TinyFish
Founders & leadership
Tiny Fish was founded in 2024 by Shuhao Zhang.
Investors · 6
Also in the syndicate · 3
Company profile
researched Aug 2026TinyFish (Tiny Fish Inc.) is a Palo Alto, California company building web infrastructure for AI agents. Its platform bundles four capabilities behind one API key and one billing wallet: a Search API returning uncached, browser-rendered results from the live web as structured JSON; a Fetch API that renders any URL in a real browser and returns clean markdown, JSON or HTML; a Browser API providing stealth cloud browser sessions with persistent state that navigate login walls, anti-bot protections and dynamic rendering; and a Web Agent that performs multi-step tasks such as navigating pages, filling forms, authenticating into sites and returning structured results. The company also markets Mako, described as a web-native model for live workflows. The platform routes across these components automatically so that a single task can combine search, fetch, browser and agent steps without customer-written routing code.
The company's stated premise is that much valuable web data sits behind logins, forms and sites without APIs, where search engines and script-based automation fail, and that agents which sign in and act like humans at scale are the appropriate solution. TinyFish states it runs hundreds of thousands of enterprise web agents each month for customers including Google, DoorDash, ClassPass and Fortune 500 companies across hospitality, insurance, retail and logistics. Published use cases include real-time hotel inventory, social listening, competitive price monitoring, insurance quoting automation, Japan market intelligence and autonomous QA testing. Third-party directory coverage additionally references an AgentQL framework for converting websites into APIs via natural language and a Mino enterprise web automation platform.
Bloomberg describes Tiny Fish Inc. as a US technology company focused on web-based agents that automate repetitive and complex online tasks for enterprises, simulating human-like browsing to perform actions and gather data at large scale.
Founding story
TinyFish was founded in 2024. Its founders are listed as Sudheesh Nair, Keith Zhai and Shuhao Zhang, with Sudheesh Nair serving as co-founder and CEO. The company cites as its earliest proof an eight-room hotel in rural Japan with no API and no technical staff, where a TinyFish agent signed into the booking system, read dates and pricing, and updated the property's Google Hotels listing automatically. The name refers to an Asian legend in which a tiny fish swims upstream and becomes a dragon at the Dragon Gate.
Business model
TinyFish sells access to its web APIs and agent platform to developers and enterprises. Search and Fetch are offered free at any wallet balance and do not draw from it, while Browser and Agent usage is billed through a prepaid Wallet under published rates; an enterprise tier is offered with contact-based pricing. Distribution is via a single API key, MCP server, SDKs and direct API integration.
Usage-based billing through a prepaid Wallet with published rates for paid APIs, plus enterprise agreements quoted on request; Search and Fetch APIs are free.
Traction
The company reports running hundreds of thousands of enterprise web agents per month and serving Google, DoorDash, ClassPass and Fortune 500 companies across hospitality, insurance, retail and logistics; testimonials come from ClassPass, DoorDash, Digital Garage, Grubhub and The Zebra. A third-party directory lists headcount at 51-200 as of August 2026.
Latest developments
TinyFish now offers its Search and Fetch APIs free at any Wallet balance, promotes the Mako web-native model for live workflows, and publishes benchmark results including 89.9% Mind2Web accuracy for its web agent.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Positioned as web infrastructure for AI agents serving enterprises where web complexity, authenticated flows and production reliability matter; the company claims the highest publicly benchmarked web agent accuracy on Mind2Web and contrasts its single-platform approach with stitching together multiple vendors.
Consolidation of search, fetch, browser and agent capabilities behind one API key, one wallet and automatic routing; browser-rendered, uncached results; access to authenticated and bot-protected sites; and benchmark claims on Mind2Web accuracy and browser cold-start latency.
Technology
A platform combining browser-rendered live search, page fetching that returns token-efficient clean content, cloud browser sessions with engine-level stealth and persistent state, and multi-step autonomous web agents. Published figures include 89.9% accuracy on the Mind2Web benchmark, sub-250ms browser cold starts, an 85% anti-bot pass rate and 99.3% detection coverage. The platform is MCP-native, exposing an MCP endpoint compatible with clients such as Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Grok, n8n, Vercel and AG2, with Python and npm SDKs and a CLI.
Go-to-market
Self-serve developer onboarding with free Search and Fetch APIs and a free first agent run, documentation, cookbook examples and integrations through MCP and SDKs, alongside a direct enterprise motion with contact-based pricing, customer stories and use-case pages.
Developers and teams building production agent workflows, and large enterprises with high-volume web workflows in hospitality, travel, insurance, retail, e-commerce and logistics. Named or cited customers include Google, DoorDash, ClassPass, Grubhub, Digital Garage and The Zebra.
Geography
Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States, with operations in the United States and customer work in Japan, including Japan market intelligence use cases and Japanese customers such as Digital Garage.
History
Founded in 2024 in Palo Alto, the company built enterprise web agents for Fortune 500 customers and announced a $47 million Series A led by ICONIQ Growth in August 2025. It subsequently expanded from agent services into a broader developer platform spanning Search, Fetch, Browser and Agent APIs plus the Mako model, with Search and Fetch offered free.
Risks & controversies
The platform explicitly navigates login walls and bypasses anti-bot protections such as Cloudflare and Akamai using stealth browser sessions, an approach that depends on continued access to third-party sites whose detection measures change. Commercial focus on large enterprises means smaller customers may have limited access.
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Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsTinyFish made its Search and Fetch APIs free at any Wallet balance, alongside its Browser and Agent APIs on a single API key and billing wallet.
TinyFish announced $47 million in Series A funding led by ICONIQ Growth, with participation from U.S. Venture Partners, MongoDB Ventures, ASG, Mango Capital and Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, to accelerate platform development, team expansion and customer acquisition.
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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Tiny Fish do?
- TinyFish provides a single API platform of web search, fetch, cloud browser and autonomous agents for AI systems.
- Who founded Tiny Fish?
- Tiny Fish was founded by Shuhao Zhang in 2024.
- Who are Tiny Fish's investors?
- Tiny Fish's investors include ICONIQ, Mango Capital, US Venture Partners.
- Where is Tiny Fish headquartered?
- Tiny Fish is headquartered in Palo Alto, US.