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Backed byNexus Venture Partners

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Total raised$14.5M
StageSeries A
Hiring pace25 roles / 90d
Founded2022
Team size11-50
HQSan Francisco, United States
Industries
TechnologyInformation and Internet

About Firecrawl

Firecrawl is a web data extraction infrastructure company founded by the creators of Mendable, an early "chat with your data" tool, and is headquartered in San Francisco with a remote-first structure. The company provides developers with essential infrastructure for extracting web data, positioning itself as critical technology for the AI era. Despite being a small, technical team, Firecrawl has achieved millions in annual recurring revenue within its first year of operation and has garnered over 68,000 GitHub stars, demonstrating significant developer adoption. The company serves major customers including MongoDB, Coinbase, and Snapchat, establishing itself as a trusted solution for enterprise-scale data extraction needs.

Open positions · 32

Company at a glance

Location
San Francisco, United States
Websitefirecrawl.dev
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Founders & Leadership

MM

Mark M.

Chief of Staff @ Firecrawl. Builder of Teams, Trust, and Systems. Fueled by strategy, empathy, and frankly, too much coffee.

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NC

Nicolas Silberstein Camara

Co-Founder & CTO at Firecrawl (YC S22) | Previously built Mendable | Teaching 50k people on @flutterguide

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AK

ADITYA K

AI Design Systems | Product & Brand Designer | Building conversion-optimized websites with AI

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CP

Caleb Peffer

Building Firecrawl | Coffee && Positive Sum Games

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EC

Eric Ciarla

Co-Founder @ Firecrawl

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Top Benefits

  • Early equity

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Location

About the Team

Team Distribution

  • Engineering44%
  • Specialized & Operations26%
  • Sales & Business Development15%
  • Leadership8%
  • Business Operations5%

Where the Team Studied

  1. 1.University of New Hampshire
  2. 2.Rice University
  3. 3.University of Southern California
  4. 4.Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
  5. 5.University of Sydney

Team Worked At

  • Mendable
  • Google
  • eBay
  • Booz Allen Hamilton

Team Composition

35 people
  • Engineering2 senior9
  • Military and Protective Services7
  • Information Technology1 senior5
  • Entrepreneurship3 senior3
  • Business Development1 senior2
  • Marketing2
  • Operations2
  • Finance1

Culture & values

Values autonomy, clarity, and shipping fast

Small, fast-moving, technical team

High velocity with rapid iteration and deployment

Collaborate closely with founders, influencing key decisions

Outcome-focused rather than hours-focused

Remote-first culture with SF office option

Creative freedom to experiment with new approaches

Technical ownership and direct impact on product direction

Early-stage environment where roles scale with company growth

Funding History

Series AAug 2025

$14.5M

raised

Open-source web crawler Firecrawl raised a $14.5M Series A led by Nexus with participation from Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke and Y Combinator.

Nexus Venture PartnersY Combinator

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