Context API that lets AI agents search, scrape and interact with the live web, built on an open-source crawler.
Firecrawl sells the web-data layer that AI agents run on: one API to search the web, scrape any page into clean markdown or schema-defined JSON, and — since 2026 — interact with pages by clicking, filling forms and navigating multi-step flows. The open-source crawler is among the most-starred repositories in its category and doubles as the funnel for the hosted product, where the proprietary Fire-engine handles rendering, proxies and anti-bot work. The company was founded in 2022 as SideGuide Technologies and pivoted out of Mendable, an AI chat-for-docs product used by Snapchat, MongoDB and DoorDash, after the team found the crawling substrate was the more valuable business. It raised a $14.5M Series A in August 2025 led by Nexus Venture Partners, said it was already profitable, and in September 2026 raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital alongside the launch of Alexandria, a single interface for agents to reach official data providers, Firecrawl's own indexes and the live web. It counts Shopify, Apple, Canva, Replit, Zapier and Lovable among its users. Its strategic bet is on becoming the paid, consented alternative to adversarial scraping — a paid Wikimedia Enterprise agreement, and Series B money earmarked for paying researchers, publishers and data providers whose knowledge AI agents use through Alexandria.
AI📍 San Francisco, CAFounded 2022
Current Valuation
Private
PRIVATE
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Firecrawl going public?
No. Firecrawl is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Firecrawl's valuation in 2026?
No confirmed valuation is on record for Firecrawl. The roster shows funding and investors where they are public; it does not estimate a mark.
Has Firecrawl filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Firecrawl.
Who are Firecrawl's investors?
Firecrawl's investors include Smash Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Zapier, Agent Fund, Tobias Lutke and 6 more.
How much has Firecrawl raised?
Firecrawl has raised $91.2M in total across 5 disclosed rounds, most recently a Series B of $75M in Sep 2026.
Is Firecrawl publicly traded — can you buy Firecrawl stock?
No. Firecrawl is a private company — its shares are not listed on any exchange and there is no ticker. The routes to exposure are pre-IPO secondary marketplaces and funds (accredited investors), employee tender offers when the company runs one, and public companies with read-through exposure. QuantLogix maps every route it can verify for Firecrawl on its Pre-IPO Access Desk.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Company Profile
CEO
Caleb Peffer
Founded
2022
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Employees
49
Total Raised
$91.2M
Growth
Company reported 15x growth in the year to August 2025 and said it was already profitable at Series A; usage scaled from 350k developers at the round to 1.25M+ developers and 150,000+ companies by August 2026, and the September 2026 Series B announcement cites 1.5M+ users
Last Round
Series B — $75M (Sep 2026) · Lead: Smash Capital
IPO Status
private
Fundraising Status
Series B · $75M · 2 mo ago
privateTotal raised $91.2M5 disclosed rounds
Growth & Valuation
Capital raised per round
Charts built from publicly disclosed funding rounds and revenue estimates. Approximate, not real-time, not investment advice.
Funding History
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series B
$75M
Sep 2026
Smash Capital
—
Series A
$14.5M
Aug 2025
Nexus Venture Partners
—
SAFE (offering, no sales reported)
—
Sep 2023
—
—
SAFE
$102,000
Aug 2023
—
—
SAFE
$275,000
Sep 2022
—
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Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
Open models
0
Downloads (30d)
0
across all models
Followers
3
Attributed to Hugging Face organization "Firecrawl" as of 2026-11-05. Open-weights footprint only — closed-model usage is not publicly measurable. Verify on Hugging Face ↗
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
▲ Hiring uptrend
+27% vs 2026-09
Open roles
33
via ashby
Product-build share
61%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
expanding
product-led hiring — 61% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
No tracked executive churn; open roles trending up.
Counted from Firecrawl's live job board as of 2026-10-14; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
Caleb PefferNicolas Silberstein CamaraEric Ciarla
Investors
Smash Capital · Nexus Venture Partners · Y Combinator · Zapier · Agent Fund · Tobias Lutke · Abhinav Asthana · Matt McClure · Paul Copplestone · Altos Ventures · Freestyle · Offline Ventures
Products
Alexandria - launched 2026-09-22: one interface for agents to discover and query official data providers (paid agreements, incl. Wikimedia Enterprise), site-specific connectors, Firecrawl's own Research, Developer and Government indexes, and the live web
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of recent date. Refreshed quarterly.