August 7, 2025
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Tavily raises 5M to advance real-time web access infrastructure, enabling AI agents to retrieve accurate, current, and structured data.
Tavily Inc., a startup focused on providing a web access layer for artificial intelligence agents, announced that it has raised $25 million in funding, including $20 million in a Series A round.
The company plans to double its headcount, expand go-to-market efforts, deepen partnerships, and enhance its real-time search infrastructure for AI agents.
Founded in 2024, Tavily is building search infrastructure that enables AI agents and large language models to access and interact with real-time web and enterprise data. Its mission is to solve the challenges of agentic search by allowing AI systems to retrieve accurate, current, and contextually relevant information from both public and private sources.
Tavily’s platform acts as an interface between AI systems and the web, offering developers an easy way to integrate powerful search capabilities into their applications. It provides a developer-friendly API that combines high-performance search, intelligent crawling, and structured web page extraction. This enables AI agents to go beyond static, pretrained knowledge by accessing up-to-date content from the internet or organizational databases.
Unlike traditional search APIs, Tavily’s offering is designed specifically for AI use cases. It injects clean, structured data directly into the context windows of large language models, significantly reducing hallucinations and outdated answers—two major challenges in production-grade AI systems.
Despite being a relatively young company, Tavily has already attracted a growing customer base that includes AI companies and enterprises such as Cohere Inc., MongoDB Inc., Groq Inc., IBM Corp., Monday.com Ltd., LangChain Inc., and Amazon Web Services Inc.
“We’re on a mission to onboard the next billion AI agents to the web,” said Chief Executive Rotem Weiss. “Building agentic web infrastructure is uniquely challenging, especially when these agents serve mission-critical applications. That’s why we built an architecture that generates unique economies of scale: a system that becomes smarter and faster the more it is utilized.”
The Series A round was led by Insight Partners LP and Alpha Wave Global Management Ltd.
“Tavily is building one of the leading web infrastructures for enterprises to have a trusted, auditable gateway for their agentic systems,” said George Mathew, managing director at Insight Partners. “It’s been impressive to see how quickly Tavily has become essential to building compound AI systems at scale.”
Originally published at SiliconANGLE on August 6, 2025