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Browser Use, a startup aiming to improve how AI agents interact with websites, has successfully raised $17 million in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Felicis’ Astasia Myers, with participation from Paul Graham, A Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners. Browser Use, founded by Magnus Müller and Gregor Zunic, emerged from ETH Zurich’s Student Project House accelerator and is part of Y Combinator’s 2025 winter batch. The startup has developed a tool that transforms website elements into a text-like format, making them more accessible for AI agents, which typically struggle with vision-based navigation due to website changes. This innovation has attracted the interest of over 20 companies in the Y Combinator Winter batch, with potential to become a fundamental tool in the AI agent space, according to Myers.