The co -founder and CEO of the firecracker, Kalib Puffer, knew the right moment that he found the investor to lead his series A.
He was in a coffee meeting with Abhishek Sharma, a nexus venture partner in a blue bottle at South Park (a favorite VC Hunt) in San Francisco. Describing the company’s future, he was so dynamically indicating that his chair helped him.
Pafar laughed, “I really fell out of my chair. It felt like a sign of the founder/investor’s relationship.” I think it was a clear indication that he was a right partner. “
On Tuesday, Patakch announced a series A, led by the alliance, in which Tobia’s CEO of Shapif and the current investor Wi -Combatin was attended.
The Fire Crohown offers a famous open source web crawler for developers and AI agents, with a commercially supportive version available via API. It uses 350,000 developers, is close 50,000 stars Puffer told Tech Crunch that Gut Hub and its notable consumers, along with shopping, duplication, and zipare, “include some of the world’s largest hedge funds.” And, they say, the company is already profitable.
Startup has just released an API that supports the search and will soon increase the help of natural language indicators, as co -founder and CTO Nicolas Silbstine Kamara noted.
Puffer, who founded the firecracker in 2022 with the camera and CMO Eric Pradesh, said that getting Latke as an investor was “the best type of verification”.
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After the founder of the shopkeeper signed up to try his products through his self -service portal, he landed it by a sincere email.
“We saw his email coming,” said Pafar.
This time, looters responded with appreciation for their products. He was inside.
Although AI Web Crawlers have some dubious reputation these days, most of the bad actors who ignore robot dotx files are also an integral part of the growing AI world. AI trains on the web, agents need to access their Duti Web pages to perform their duties, and businesses need personal crawls to train their websites for training and operations.
The founders of the firecracker also hope to help solve the disappointing parts of their industry. Puffer said he is working on tools tools to help the website owners, publishers and other content creators “Payment is paid when AI uses their content. We think it should be similar.”
However, with big names like Adobe and Getty, as well as Startups like Barea, a lot of efforts were made around this idea, Kolop NetworksAnd others, Puffer thinks that there is an edge of firecrackers as it is already working with people who are scratching data.
“We already have one side of the market,” he said. “What we want to do is only to connect this aspect of the market to the website owners, publishers.”
Interestingly, the firecracker went viral a few months ago for the reasons that he has little to do with his open source tool. He posted an advertisement to the YC Job Board in which an AI agent was getting employment for a salary of 000 15,000 as an employee – maybe never a first job advertisement for an agent employee.
Unable to hire an agent in search of this job, the firecrackers increased the budget to hire several agents and developers who built them, and tried again. The applicant flooded, but the company has not yet hired anyone, Pafar said. The founders realized that checking and management of agent employees is a task in itself. So now they are looking for the AI Chief of Staff.
The firecrackers will be on the stage on the occasion of a disciplinary in which they learned in a session that covers professionals to hire AI agents as preliminary employees.