Series B closed September 2026, led by Smash Capital.[1][2][3][4][5]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Smash Capital, Altos Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Freestyle, Offline Ventures, Tobias Lütke.[1][2][3][4][7]

Caleb Peffer, Co-Founder & CEO[1][3][4][7][9][10][11]

Nicolas Silberstein Camara, Co-Founder & CTO[1][3][4][7][9][10][11]

Eric Ciarla, Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer[1][3][4][7][9][10][11][12]

Caleb Peffer, CEO & Co-Founder[9][10][11][12]

Nicolas Silberstein Camara, CTO & Co-Founder[9][10][11][12]

Will Goldfarb, Head of Finance & Legal[9][10][11][12]

Ankit Bahuguna, Head of Search[9][10][11][12]

Micah Stairs, Head of Support Engineering[9][10][11][12]

Thomas Kosmas, Founding Software Engineer[9][10][11][12]

Exa · exa.ai · Named together in the same market map of AI search and retrieval infrastructure; Exa raised a $250M Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2.2B valuation in May 2026, the same budget line Firecrawl sells into.[1][5]

Parallel Web Systems · parallel.ai · Named together in the same market map of agent data infrastructure; raised $100M from Sequoia at a $2B valuation five months after a same-size Series A, competing for the same retrieval budget.[1]

Tavily · tavily.com · Listed by RuntimeWire as focused heavily on search and retrieval for AI applications, the same job to be done and the same developer budget as Firecrawl's search primitives.[5]

Apify · apify.com · Listed by RuntimeWire as established scraping infrastructure, the substitute a team evaluates when it needs managed crawling and extraction rather than building it.[5]

Bright Data · brightdata.com · Listed by RuntimeWire as established scraping infrastructure; it supplies the proxy and collection layer that Firecrawl bundles into its hosted API, so buyers weigh it as a build-versus-buy alternative.[5]

Browser Use · browser-use.com · Listed by RuntimeWire among browser-agent developers; it overlaps with Firecrawl's /interact primitive and competes for the same agent-navigation workflow.[5]

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