Tavily
Headquarters
Tel Aviv, IsraelFounded
2023CEO / Founder
Assaf ElovicEmployees
1-10Funding
Acquired — $25MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.9/10Website
tavily.com
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About Tavily
Tavily is a search API company founded in 2023 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company was built specifically to address the limitations of general-purpose search engines when used within AI agent workflows and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, where raw web results often require significant post-processing before they are usable by large language models.
Tavily's primary product is a REST API that queries the web in real time and returns cleaned, structured, and relevance-ranked content tailored for LLM input. The API is commonly used in agentic frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex, where AI systems need to retrieve up-to-date factual information during reasoning or task execution. The service offers configurable search depth, domain filtering, and result summarization to reduce token overhead in downstream model calls.
Tavily is an early-stage company with a small team. It has gained traction within the developer and AI research community, particularly among builders of autonomous agent systems. Specific funding details have not been publicly disclosed.
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Financials
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Products by Tavily
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Competitive Landscape
Who Tavily competes with, and how they differ.
Exa is Tavily's closest direct rival in agentic web search -- it raised a $17M Series A from Lightspeed, Nvidia and Y Combinator around the same time as Tavily's own raise and pitches the same search-API-for-LLMs developer audience.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedFirecrawl focuses on turning arbitrary web pages into clean, structured markdown/JSON for LLM ingestion rather than Tavily's real-time search-and-rank approach -- a scraping-first alternative to Tavily's search-first API.
Brave Search API sells raw independent-index web search results priced per query to developers, competing for the same search-API-for-AI-apps budget line but without Tavily's agent-specific re-ranking and citation layer.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
You.com's API packages web search plus its own answer engine, targeting the same enterprise RAG/agent customers as Tavily but bundling a consumer chat product Tavily doesn't build.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Perplexity's Sonar API exposes the same search-grounded LLM answers that power its consumer app, competing for developers who want citation-backed web results, though Perplexity leans more on its own consumer subscription business than pure API resale.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in Tavily's history, with sources.
- Acquisition
Acquired by Nebius for a reported $275M
Nebius, the AI cloud company that split from Yandex, announced an agreement to acquire Tavily to add agentic search to its AI cloud platform. Nebius did not officially disclose the price; press reported $275M upfront with up to $400M more tied to milestones. Tavily continues to operate under its own brand.
siliconangle.com - Funding
Series A -- $20M led by Insight Partners and Alpha Wave Global
Brought Tavily's total funding to $25M following a 2024 seed round; the round was announced with over 1 million monthly SDK downloads and zero marketing spend.
techcrunch.com - Founded
Tavily founded by Rotem Weiss, Assaf Elovic and Yuval Rozio
Incubated by Alpha Wave Global roughly 12 months before the company's August 2025 Series A, while CEO Rotem Weiss was still a student at Columbia University.
calcalistech.com - Milestone
Rotem Weiss launches GPT Researcher, the open-source project that becomes Tavily
Weiss's open-source AI research agent project gained roughly 20,000 GitHub stars before he spun it into a company.
techcrunch.com
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