Welcome to The Stack’s weekly round-up of the latest startups, scaleups, and funding news. (Want us to include your milestone in the next wrap-up? Get it to Noah Bovenizer here with the story in 50 words or fewer.)
In this week's STACKUP, Firecrawl, the startup behind the open source web data API of the same name, spoke to The Stack after closing a $75 million Series B and launching its AI agent knowledge library, Alexandria.
CEO Caleb Peffer discussed that launch, Firecrawl's open source strategy, and why companies will have to be paid for their online data if AI is to solve humanity's biggest problems.
Also this week, it's all about hosting, serving data for, and managing AI agents with $100+ million rounds for Island, Snorkel, and Verda. There's also news from Numeral and Kontext, while Benford and F13 get going with pre-seed funding.
