Firecrawl nabbed Shopify’s CEO Tobias Lütke as an investor from a gutsy email after they discovered he was using the product. techcrunch.com/2025/08/19/ai-…

Introducing Firecrawl /v2 (+ our Series A) 🔥 We just raised $14.5M from @nexusvp and are shipping our biggest release yet with: - 10x faster scraping - Semantic crawling - News & image search - And way more... Thanks to everyone who got us here! Now here's everything in /v2 🧵

Thanks to Abhishek Sharma and Nexus Venture Partners for having conviction from the very first meeting, and to the many investors/angels who have believed in us since day one. Special shoutout to tobi lutke Paul Copplestone - e/postgres Michele Catasta Zeno Rocha Matt McClure Abhinav Asthana, and Nicolas Dessaigne from Y Combinator

Just tested the new Firecrawl v2, and wow, it’s a MONSTER upgrade! 🔥 → 10x faster scraping → Semantic crawling (prompt-based!) → Search across images & news → Auto-extract structured data from sites → n8n, CrewAI, OpenAI SDK integration and much more! Quick dive! 🧵↓

So stoked for this. Hearty congratulations Max Brodeur-Urbas, Rahul Behal, and the team! A very warm welcome to Shopify - both as an innovative customer and investor - on the Gumloop journey! Gumloop is powering the Enterprise #AI revolution, one workflow at a time! 🚀

Congrats to the team Firecrawl on their $14.5M Series A! Firecrawl is the web data layer for AI. Since launching over a year ago, they've served over 1B+ requests and are trusted by 350k+ cloud developers. And their GitHub repo is nearing 50k stars. techcrunch.com/2025/08/19/ai-…

Congrats to the Leaping AI (YC W25) team on their $4.7M seed! Leaping AI offers digital workers for mid-sized and larger call centers. The digital call center workers are human-like, resolve >50% of repetitive phone calls, and grade their own performance - leading to constant feedback

Voice AI is ready for prime time! We’re leading $4.7M seed in Leaping AI (YC W25) -- digital call-center workers that sound human, speak 10+ languages, run 24/7, and self-improve every call via an AI-QA loop. Where it shines ✅ Lead qualification ✅ Appointment scheduling ✅

Huge congrats to Firecrawl on their Series A! This is what happens when a team executes flawlessly: ✨ 50k stars 📈 15× revenue in a year 💰 Profitable all the way Incredible work Caleb Peffer (Hiring!) Nicolas Camara Eric Ciarla (hiring)! Can’t wait to see what’s next!

The hype around Gumloop internally cannot be overstated. Incredible build team getting in weeds with all of us. Bright future ahead.

Abhishek is incredible! Glad to work with you on this journey :)

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We just crossed 50,000 stars on Github 🚀 Thank you to all of our contributors, community, and team ❤️‍🔥

Friends Gumloop are being mentioned in job descriptions now - that’s what I call traction 🔥🛞 cc Ramp