Tavily Secures $25M to Power AI Agent Search Platform
AI infrastructure firm Tavily has successfully closed a $25 million funding round, including a $20 million Series A, as it accelerates its mission to power the emerging “Internet of Agents.” The significant investment was co-led by prominent venture capital firms Insight Partners and Alpha Wave Global, underscoring growing investor confidence in the foundational technologies enabling autonomous AI.
Tavily’s platform addresses a critical challenge in the rapidly evolving artificial intelligence landscape: equipping AI agents with real-time, reliable access to web data. Despite the remarkable advancements in large language models (LLMs), these agents often struggle with outdated information, factual inaccuracies, or “hallucinations” due to their reliance on pre-trained data or generic search APIs. Tavily’s solution is a developer-friendly search layer specifically designed to inject clean, structured, and up-to-date information directly into an LLM’s context window, drastically enhancing the accuracy and utility of AI applications.
The company’s focus on “agentic search” positions it as a vital enabler for the “Internet of Agents” (IoA), a futuristic vision where billions of specialized AI agents will seamlessly discover, communicate, and collaborate across various domains. By providing a purpose-built search engine for AI workflows like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Tavily helps overcome the limitations of traditional search methods that were not optimized for AI’s unique requirements.
Since its inception in 2024 by co-founders Rotem Weiss (CEO), Assaf Elovic, and Yuval Rozio, Tavily has demonstrated remarkable organic growth, boasting over a million monthly downloads without any marketing expenditure. The company’s origins trace back to Weiss’s viral open-source project, “GPT Researcher,” which laid the groundwork for Tavily’s current enterprise-grade offerings. Today, Tavily’s platform is already trusted by a diverse client base, including Fortune 500 companies and leading AI firms such as Cohere, Groq, MongoDB, and IBM, for applications ranging from real-time fraud prevention in finance to logistics optimization and advanced academic research.
With the new capital, Tavily plans to significantly expand its operations, including doubling its current workforce of approximately 30 employees across its New York, Tel Aviv, and Abu Dhabi offices. The funding will also fuel deeper partnerships within the developer and LLM ecosystems and accelerate the development of its real-time search infrastructure, ultimately aiming to “onboard the next billion AI agents to the web.” This investment marks a pivotal step in building the critical infrastructure necessary for a future where autonomous AI agents can reliably and securely navigate the vast expanse of online information.