Companies through many industries implement AI agents for internal use, automating a wide range of tasks.
In the financial sector, AI agents are critical for fraud detection. They can analyze extensive amounts of transaction data in real time. Meanwhile, sales organizations use AI agents to collect data on potential customers. These AI sales agents can browse the site and social resources for information.
To be effective, these agents need to access the Internet and find information from these sources, all while following corporate policies and mirroring how a human researcher will work.
Linking an agent directly to a large language model such as ChatGPT without corporate specific securities can lead to very inappropriate results.
“Government, risk and conformity at the business are so important now, and if you just leave that happens, it will only be the Wild, Wild West,” George Mathew, CEO at Insight Partners, told Techcrunch.
That is why Insight Partners led a $ 20 million series in Tavily, a startup that connects AI agents to the network in a manner in accordance with corporate specific policies. The investment brings the total funding of one -year Tavily to $ 25 million.
Founded last year by data scientist Rotem Weiss, Tavily started as an open-source project, which he created in 2023 called GPT explorer. The focus consumer project acquired real -time online data before ChatGPT was linked to the Internet, Weiss told Techcrunch. “It went extremely viral, so fast we gained almost 20,000 GitHub stars.”
Techcrunch -Event
San -Francisco
|
27-29 October 2025
Weiss launched Tavily after Chatgpt and other LLMs introduced a website. Unlike GPT researcher, Tavily focuses on corporate clients. It provides a set of tools to companies such as Groq, Cohere, MongoDB and writer, allowing their agents to seek, crawl and extract structured insights from both public and private sources.
Although most AI agents are not yet connected to the Internet, Weiss says Tavily’s goal is on board the next billion agents to the network.
Tavily is not the only startup providing search tools for AI agents. It competes with Exawhich raised $ 17 million from series A from Lightspeed, Nvidia, and YC last year. Another smaller startup that offers a layer search connection layer is FireCrawl. Openai and perplexity also offer search solutions oriented to independent developers.
