Firecrawl YC Application
Firecrawl went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.
- YC batch
- Summer 2022
- Industry
- B2B
- Team size
- 25
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2022
Founders
Caleb PefferCo-founder and CEO
Eric CiarlaFounder
Nicolas Silberstein CamaraFounder
What Firecrawl does
Firecrawl is the web context API for AI agents. Search, scrape, parse, and interact with the live web to turn any source into clean Markdown or structured data your agents can ship with. Open source, ZDR-ready, and trusted by 80,000+ teams including Apple, Shopify, Canva, Zapier, and Lovable to power production AI.
Firecrawl's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Firecrawl, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Firecrawl
The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web
We built Firecrawl to give AI agents a way to access live web data fast and clean. It lets teams search, scrape, parse, and interact with websites at scale and outputs clean Markdown or structured data agents can consume directly. This solves a huge problem: most web scraping is brittle and hard to scale, and there's no single tool that wraps search, scraping, and interaction for AI context. Our API powers production AI for 80,000+ teams including Apple and Shopify.
We live in San Francisco, CA, and would remain based here after YC.
San Francisco is where our team is based and where our users and ecosystem are. Staying here keeps us close to developers and companies using Firecrawl.
21 more answers in the full application
Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Firecrawl YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Firecrawl's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Firecrawl would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Firecrawl in?
Firecrawl was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2022 batch.
Who founded Firecrawl?
Firecrawl was founded by Caleb Peffer, Eric Ciarla, Nicolas Silberstein Camara.
What does Firecrawl do?
The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Firecrawl's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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