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AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M, is still looking to hire agents as employees
Firecrawl nabbed Shopify’s CEO Tobias Lütke as an investor from a gutsy email after they discovered he was using the product.
He was in a coffee meeting with Nexus Venture Partner’s Abhishek Sharma at the Blue Bottle in San Francisco’s South Park (a favorite VC haunt). It’s used by 350,000 developers, has nearly 50,000 stars on GitHub and its notable customers include Shopify, Replit, and Zapier as well as “some of the largest hedge funds in the world,” Peffer told TechCrunch. While there have been lots of efforts around this idea from big names like Adobe and Getty as well as startups like Bria, Calliope Networks, and others, Peffer feels that Firecrawl has an edge because it’s already working with those who are scraping data.
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