August 6, 2025
5 min read
Meir Orbach
Tavily secures 0M Series A to power AI agents with a unified search layer, serving Fortune 500 clients and top AI firms worldwide.
Tavily Raises $20M Series A to Build the Google of AI Agents
The artificial intelligence company Tavily, which has developed a search layer for AI agents, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Insight Partners and Alpha Wave Global. Alpha Wave, known for investing in high-profile tech firms like Elon Musk’s SpaceX and X, Monzo, and HiBob, also led Tavily’s previous funding round. The company’s total funding now stands at $25 million. Tavily’s platform enables AI agents to navigate live web data through a single search layer. Since its launch, it has seen a meteoric rise to over a million monthly downloads. The company is already serving leading Fortune 500 companies and fast-growing tech firms such as Cohere and Groq. Tavily was founded by Rotem Weiss (CEO), Assaf Elovic, and Yuval Rozio (Managing Director at Alpha Wave Global, which incubated the company 12 months ago).“We extract information in real time and feed it into AI agents,” said Weiss in an interview with Calcalist. “These agents receive tools that allow them to pull high-quality, prioritized information. We work with various model providers such as Grok. Companies today are seeking a unified search layer that allows them to query multiple models. Over 700,000 people are using our agents. If each company tried to build its own search system, it would be overly complex. We were born into the world of agents, unlike traditional search companies. Ours isn’t just structured data retrieval, but dynamic, intelligent extraction.”The company employs around 30 people across New York, Tel Aviv, and Abu Dhabi, and plans to double its workforce by the end of the year.
“We began with an open-source agent, which evolved into today’s product,” Weiss added. “We recently established an office in Abu Dhabi through Alpha Wave. We expect around 15 employees there. The rest will be split between Tel Aviv and New York. We’re graduates of Columbia University, and our Israeli branch was launched within a few months. About half of our employees are based in Israel, and the other half in New York.”
Source: Calcalistech