YCS22· AI· DevtoolsFirecrawl
The web data API for searching and scraping. 🔥
Founders
Not read from YC yet; the weekly run fills these in.
Same space
Competitors
Closest in what they build, same category.
Adjacent
Overlapping tags, a different niche.
LiteLLMW23Call every LLM API like it's OpenAI [100+ LLMs]Shared: developer tools, open sourceActive
TraceloopW23Know what your LLM is doing — and why it’s failingShared: developer tools, open sourceAcquired
WaspW21Configuration language for building enterprise web apps 10x fasterShared: developer tools, open sourceActive
NangoW23A single API for all your integrationsShared: developer tools, open sourceActive
ReplicateW20Run machine learning models in the cloudShared: developer tools, open sourceAcquired
Also from S22 in AI
Batchmates in Summer 2022.
GraiS22Open source version control for metadataInactive
LaminS22Open data platform for traceable, multimodal AIActive
ActivepiecesS22Open-source, AI-first and no-code business automation toolActive
Airtrain AIS22No-code data curation for LLM fine-tuning and evaluation.Inactive
AnythingLLMS22Building the definitive all-in-one on-device AI productivity toolActive
AxleS22AI-native clearinghouse for insuranceActive
Across fru.dev
About Firecrawl
Firecrawl is the easiest way to turn the web into data AI agents can use. One API call converts any URL into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data - the boring-hard problem everyone building with LLMs eventually hits, solved. This is a place for people who want to work at the frontier: an AI company building the infrastructure other AI companies run on, not one bolting AI onto an existing product. We move fast, go deep, and are building the tools superintelligence will rely on to gather data from the web.
San Francisco, CA, USA
Firecrawl: questions
Which YC batch was Firecrawl in?
Firecrawl was in Y Combinator's Summer 2022 batch (S22).
Is Firecrawl still active?
Y Combinator lists Firecrawl as active.
Where is Firecrawl based?
Firecrawl lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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