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Products
People
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Offices
Jobs
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$89.5M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$75M
Series B · Sep 2026 · this month
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
31
+8 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners
The money's age
Fresh money
0 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
70/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news, fresh money, rising traction
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 22 Raised a round Series B $75M Aug 19, 2025 Raised a round Series A $14.5M · TechCrunch Apr 16, 2024 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: API to turn entire websites into Markdown 2024 Founded Jun 2022 Went through Y Combinator
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.33%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
86 public repositories · +1%
Launched on Hacker News
23 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series B Sep 2026 $75M — firecrawl.dev
Series A Aug 2025 $14.5M — TechCrunch
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Caleb PefferCo-founder & CEO
Nicolas Silberstein CamaraCo-founder & CTO
Eric CiarlaCo-founder & Chief Growth Officer
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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How Firecrawl hires

Truth index
B 83/100
Median time to fill
18 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
88%
Reposted roles
0%

Firecrawl scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 8 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 88% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 18 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Firecrawl builds a web data API that lets developers and AI agents search, scrape, crawl and interact with websites and receive the content as clean markdown or structured JSON. The service is backed by an open-source crawler with tens of thousands of GitHub stars and, since September 2026, by Alexandria, a layer that combines official data providers, custom connectors and its own indexes with live web access behind one interface. The San Francisco company came out of Y Combinator, counts more than 1.5 million users, and raised a $14.5 million Series A in 2025 and a $75 million Series B led by Smash Capital in 2026.

News

News noteノート 23 days ago
Searching for papers or counting 3.15 million of them: How to choose between Firecrawl and arxiv-complete南翔伍 / AIコンパニオンとSNSの間くらいの「Jams」開発中
Suppose you receive two requests for paper research. The first is, "List a dozen or so recent important papers on the verification of coding agents, and verify their claims in the original text." The second is, "Since 2020, count how the proportion of pap
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News SiliconANGLE 23 days ago
Web scraping startup Firecrawl closes $75M investment
Web scraping startup Firecrawl closes $75M investment - SiliconANGLE
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News firecrawl.dev 24 days ago
Firecrawl Alexandria
Give your AI agents access to 80+ data providers and specialized indexes through one API, MCP, or CLI. Find tools, check their contracts, and get structured data.
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News Firecrawl 24 days ago
Introducing Alexandria and our $75M Series B
We raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital to build the knowledge library for superintelligence. Meet Alexandria.
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News Firecrawl 1 month ago
How to Build an AI Software Factory: Agents That Open, Review, and Merge PRs
An AI software factory runs fleets of autonomous coding agents that open, review, and merge PRs. How Stripe, Spotify, Shopify, Uber, and Ramp built theirs, broken into five stages you can implement.
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News Firecrawl 2 months ago
What is Kimi K3? A Complete Developer Guide for 2026
Recently, Kimi K3 was released by Moonshot AI. In this guide, we'll go over Kimi K3 specs, providers, and how to use it with OpenCode.
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News Firecrawl Docs 5 months ago
Monitoring Firecrawl
Schedule recurring checks, detect changes, and get notified by webhook or email
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News Firecrawl Docs 7 months ago
CLI Firecrawl
Firecrawl skills are an easy way for AI agents such as Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenCode to use Firecrawl through the CLI.
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News vibegui.com 10 months ago
Shipping vibegui Bookmarks v1: Architecture, Costs, and Lessons
How I built an AI-enriched bookmark manager using MCP, Gemini Flash, Firecrawl, and Perplexity - and what it cost to enrich 305 bookmarks.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Firecrawl over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
43
Postings analysed
38
Stack modernity
87/100AI adopter
Languages
TypeScript16%
Python13%
JavaScript8%
Go3%
Frameworks & libraries
Next.js5%
React.js5%
Tailwind CSS5%
Playwright3%
Databases
PostgreSQL5%
Vespa3%
Cloud & platforms
GitHub100%
Kubernetes5%
Anthropic5%
Vercel5%
AI & ML
LLM100%
Claude8%
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Full Firecrawl tech stack 43 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$260k
Typical range
$160k – $453k
Open positions
31
29 Jobs
Middle 55.2%
Senior 27.6%
Staff 6.9%
Principal 3.4%
Architect 6.9%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 16 $260k $190k – $290k
Senior 8 $260k $260k – $324k
Staff 2 $228k $220k – $236k
Principal 1 $392k $392k
Architect 2 $388k $323k – $453k
Highest paying role Chief Financial Officer $453k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Firecrawl By role, level and city, against the market · 31 jobs with pay

Products

Alexandria
A knowledge library for AI agents launched with the Series B in September 2026. It joins official data providers, custom connectors and Firecrawl's indexes with live web access so agents can discover and retrieve sources through one interface.
firecrawl.dev
Firecrawl API
Search, scrape, crawl and map endpoints that turn websites into LLM-ready markdown or JSON. An open-source version of the crawler is available on GitHub.
firecrawl.dev

People

Caleb Peffer
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founded Firecrawl after building Mendable with the same team. Graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2022.
Nicolas Silberstein Camara
Co-founder & CTO
Co-founder and technical lead of Firecrawl. Earned a computer science degree at the University of New Hampshire in 2021.
Eric Ciarla
Co-founder & Chief Growth Officer
Co-founder responsible for growth at Firecrawl. Graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2022.
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data

Growth

Hiring Momentum
78/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
31
6 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
19 days
faster than 54% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Legal
21% ▲
Backend
14% ▼
AI/ML
10%
Sales
10%
Industrial Engineering
10%
Solutions
10% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added OpenAI Codex to stack Oct 2026
Added Claude Code to stack Oct 2026
New location: United States Oct 2026
Added LLM to stack Oct 2026
Added GitHub to stack Oct 2026
Added Firecrawl to stack Oct 2026
Added AI Agents to stack Oct 2026
Added Copilot to stack Oct 2026
Added Slack to stack Sep 2026
Added Model Context Protocol to stack Sep 2026
Added Go to stack Sep 2026
Added Cursor to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco United States
HQ
Firecrawl
29 open roles 27 posted in 90 days 41% engineering 50-200 est. staff $272k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Industrial Engineering
San Francisco
seen since Jul 2026 company site, job postings

Jobs

$235k – $236k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • San Francisco
Cursor
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
LLM
Firecrawl
OpenAI Codex
DevOps
GitHub
Apply
$250k – $290k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
AI Agents
LLM
Firecrawl
DevOps
GitHub
Apply
$166k – $218k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
Go
TypeScript
Cursor
Claude
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
LLM
Firecrawl
DevOps
GitHub
Management
Slack
Apply
$235k – $260k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Puppeteer
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
Firecrawl
DevOps
GitHub
QA
Playwright
Apply
$235k – $260k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
AI Agents
LLM
Firecrawl
DevOps
GitHub
Apply
$235k – $260k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
AI Agents
LLM
Firecrawl
OCR
DevOps
GitHub
Apply
$235k – $260k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
TypeScript
AI Agents
LLM
Firecrawl
DevOps
GitHub
IAM
Apply
$246k – $271k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Vespa
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
Firecrawl
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
GitHub
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
Apply
$250k – $290k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
Spark
MLFlow
AI Agents
LLM
Firecrawl
Feature Store
Machine Learning
DevOps
Kubernetes
GitHub
Analytics
A/B Testing
Apply
$235k – $260k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
AI Agents
LLM
Firecrawl
DevOps
GitHub
Apply
$209k – $265k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
AI Agents
LLM
Firecrawl
DevOps
GitHub
Apply
$209k – $265k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
AI Agents
LLM
Firecrawl
DevOps
GitHub
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$89.5M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
2
Investors
4
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2026 $75M Details
Series A 2025 $14.5M Details
Key Investors
Y Combinator Series A
Y Combinator is a startup accelerator in San Francisco that invests in early-stage companies.
ycombinator.com
Altos Ventures Series B
Altos Ventures is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm investing in early and growth-stage companies.
altos.vc
Nexus Venture Partners Series A
Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm investing in India and US technology companies.
nexusvp.com
Smash Capital Series B
Smash Capital is a growth-stage venture capital firm that led Firecrawl's Series B.
smash.vc