Firecrawl, which provides web scraping tools for AI agents, raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital
THE SO WHAT
Capital is flowing into the unglamorous layer that feeds agents structured web data—$75M for Firecrawl is a bet that “browse + scrape + clean” becomes a core primitive, not a side feature. If you’re building agents, you now have to decide whether to own this ingestion stack or standardize on a vendor API and accept lock-in at the data layer.
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