News Summary

Tavily, a New York City-based startup focused on connecting AI agents to the real-time web, has successfully raised $25 million in funding. The Series A round was led by Insight Partners. Tavily aims to provide AI agents with the ability to search, crawl, and extract structured insights from both public and private sources, ensuring compliance with company-specific policies. Tavily’s founder, Rotem Weiss, initially launched the project as an open-source initiative called GPT Researcher in 2023. The startup now caters to enterprise clients such as Groq, Cohere, MongoDB, and Writer. The funding will support Tavily’s mission to onboard the next billion AI agents to the web, competing with other search tool providers like Exa, Firecrawl, OpenAI, and Perplexity.