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Tavily

Search API built specifically for LLMs and AI agents, returning ranked web context in one call
AI 📍 Tel Aviv Founded 2023
Current Valuation
$700M
as of 2026-Q1
PRIVATE

IPO Outlookprivate

Is Tavily going public?
No. Tavily is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Tavily's valuation in 2026?
Tavily is valued at $700M as of 2026-Q1, set by its Series A ($85M, Feb 2026). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Tavily filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Tavily.
Who are Tavily's investors?
Tavily's investors include Insight Partners, Index Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners.
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.
Tavily provides search infrastructure for AI agents - returning ranked, citation-rich web results optimized for LLM consumption rather than human reading. The /research endpoint provides agentic deep-research orchestration. Sacra estimates ~$10M ARR with a Series A at $700M valuation, positioning Tavily as a premium low-token-bloat alternative to Exa and Perplexity API.

Company Profile

CEO
Rotem Weiss
Founded
2023
HQ
Tel Aviv
Employees
~40
Total Raised
$110M
Est. Revenue
$10M (2025-FY)
Growth
~10M ARR, rapid agent-driven growth
Last Round
Series A — $85M (Feb 2026) · Lead: Insight Partners
IPO Status
private

Fundraising Status

Series A · $85M · 6 mo ago
privateTotal raised $110M

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Series A$85MFeb 2026Insight Partners

Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML

Open models
0
Downloads (30d)
0
across all models
Followers
15
Attributed to Hugging Face organization "Tavily" as of 2026-08-19. Open-weights footprint only — closed-model usage is not publicly measurable. Verify on Hugging Face ↗

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
Hiring steady
29% of roles posted in last 30d
Open roles
17
via greenhouse
Product-build share
47%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
product-led hiring — 47% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month17Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionEngineering7Sales & GTM4Other3Marketing2Product1
product-building   go-to-market / G&A
Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise Head of Forward Deployment Engineering Senior Product Manager, Agentic SearchSenior Site Reliability Engineer (In-Office Required)Senior Software Engineer (Agentic Search) - BillingSenior Software Engineer (Agentic Search) - Web Access Engineer
Counted from Tavily's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

Founders & Key People

Rotem WeissEyal Ben-DavidDean Sacoolas

Investors

Insight Partners · Index Ventures · Bessemer Venture Partners

Products

  • Tavily Search API
  • Tavily /research endpoint
  • Tavily Extract
  • JetBrains AI search integration

Competitors

Exa · Perplexity API · Brave Search API · SerpAPI · Firecrawl
AISearchDeveloper APILLM ToolsAgents
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2026-Q1. Refreshed quarterly.