Startup in Spotlight: Tavily Raises $25M to Power Real-Time AI Search

At IGF, we help startups turn bold ideas into reality. Today, we highlight Tavily startup. They are a promising company tackling a key challenge in AI: giving agents reliable access to up-to-date web data in real time.

Tavily decided to solve the problem of AI agents. Main problems with them were hallucinations, missed context, and frustrations when used by users. The reason for that is the lack of up-to-date information from the live web. Consequently, Tavily startup decided to offer a purpose-built search layer that gives up-to-date info to AI agents. The info can be taken from both public internet and private organization sources. Such a step gives AI agents fast and accurate access to insights.

Such platforms Groq, Cohere, Monday.com already use Tavily’s platform. Unlike general search APIs, Tavily’s technology grows smarter and faster with use, improving efficiency and reliability at scale.

Moreover, more cool funding approves their success. Tavily has recently raised $25 million in funding, including a $20 million Series A led by Insight Partners and Alpha Wave Global. The company now handles over a million queries per month and powers critical applications in fields such as fraud detection, logistics, and academic research.

Pioneering Scalable AI Infrastructure for the Web

The Tavily startup was founded by CEO Rotem Weiss while still at Columbia University. Moreover, along with co-founders Assaf Elovic and Yuval Rozio, Tavily aims to onboard the next billion AI agents to the web by building scalable, dependable infrastructure.

Their technology is not just about common search. It’s about combining deep intelligence and high-precision tailored specifically for AI agents. Such an approach makes Tavily different from OpenAI and Perplexity and developer-centric startups.

“Tavily’s architecture is designed to become smarter and faster the more it’s used, enabling AI agents to access real-time, structured data efficiently,” Weiss explains.

You might ask, what’s their plan for funding? Interesting, because they are planning to use their capital to expand their team and market reach. This step will help them strengthen their partnership with the AI ecosystem. As Weiss states, “Our mission is to pioneer the next generation of AI search, delivering lightning-fast, dependable data retrieval to millions of developers worldwide.”