Firecrawl

AI Infrastructure · Web Data/Scraping · Developer Tools

Funding

Firecrawl raises $75M Series B, launches Alexandria for AI agents

Paying publishers and researchers when AI agents use their data turns a scraping tool into a licensing marketplace.

• Firecrawl raised a $75 million Series B led by Smash Capital, alongside the launch of Alexandria, a unified data platform for AI agents.
• Founded in 2024, Firecrawl turns websites into structured, AI-ready data and now serves more than 1.5 million developers and 150,000 companies including Shopify, Apple and Canva.
• Alexandria bundles over 100 official data providers, Firecrawl's own Research, Developer and Government indexes, and the live web into one API, paying providers like Wikimedia Enterprise when agents use their data.
• Firecrawl's own internal test across 845 tasks found AI agents using Alexandria scored 21% higher on answer quality than those relying on built-in web tools.
• The round lands roughly a year after Firecrawl's Series A, as the company reports its paying customer base growing at around 290% annually.
• As AI agents take on research, coding and compliance work, answer quality hinges on licensed, trustworthy sources rather than raw scraping — Firecrawl is betting on becoming that licensing layer rather than just a crawler.