Company record
Firecrawl
Updated November 2, 2026 · Presspool
Firecrawl is a web data API that searches, scrapes and interacts with websites, turning them into clean Markdown or structured data for AI agents. firecrawl.dev
Funding
- $75 million Series B, announced September 22, 2026. Led by Smash Capital. Listed in the AI startup funding roster for September 21–26, 2026. Sources: Firecrawl, RuntimeWire.
Of the 31 Series B rounds with exactly stated amounts in dollars on Presspool's weekly rosters since September 21, 2026, Firecrawl's $75 million is the 8th largest; their median is $52.5 million.
Whether AI names Firecrawl
- On the AI infrastructure map: named or cited in 8 of 50 answers to Presspool's AI infrastructure questions on November 2, 2026 (ChatGPT 1 of 8, Claude 1 of 8, Perplexity 2 of 8, Gemini 1 of 8, Copilot 0 of 8, Google AI Mode 2 of 6, Google AI Overviews 1 of 4). See the map. Of the 54 companies on the map, Firecrawl ranked 10th by answers naming or citing it in that sample. The other companies AI names most on AI infrastructure questions: Lambda (17 of 50), Crusoe (13 of 50), Together AI (11 of 50), Fireworks AI (10 of 50), Groq (10 of 50), LangChain (10 of 50) and Modal (10 of 50). Most often named in the same answers: Exa (4), LangChain (4), Parallel Web Systems (3), Braintrust (2).
- Machine Relations Index: Cited in 83 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026.
Week by week
Answers that named or cited Firecrawl in each weekly sample of Presspool's AI infrastructure questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week.
| Week of | AI infrastructure |
|---|---|
| September 21, 2026 | 5 of 39 |
| October 5, 2026 | 7 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 10 of 50 |
| October 19, 2026 | 9 of 56 |
| October 26, 2026 | 10 of 53 |
| November 2, 2026 | 8 of 50 |
Sources AI cites when it names Firecrawl
Presspool asked its 8 AI infrastructure questions on November 2, 2026; 8 of the 50 answers named or cited Firecrawl, on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews. The sites those 8 answers cited most:
- firecrawl.dev: 6 of 8 answers
- brightdata.com: 4 of 8 answers
- exa.ai: 3 of 8 answers
- github.com: 2 of 8 answers
- langchain.com: 2 of 8 answers
- parallel.ai: 2 of 8 answers
- tavily.com: 2 of 8 answers
- you.com: 2 of 8 answers
- agentatlas.dev: 1 of 8 answers
- agentscamp.com: 1 of 8 answers
Related records
Also on the AI infrastructure map: Arcade, Baseten, Braintrust, Clockwork.io, Crusoe, Daytona, DeepInfra, Encord, Exa, fal, Fiddler AI, Fireworks AI and 41 more on the map.
Closest rounds in the roster for September 21–26, 2026: Ema ($77 million Series B, September 23, 2026), Confido ($55 million Series B, September 22, 2026), MAGIC AI (£8 million Series B, September 23, 2026), BigHat Biosciences ($75 million Series C, September 24, 2026), Go.AI ($85 million Series A, September 22, 2026), Numeral ($100 million Series C, September 23, 2026).
Smash Capital, which led this round, also led CodeRabbit ($143M Series C, August 12, 2026).