Tavily
Tavily provides real-time web data APIs for AI agents, enabling search, extraction and reasoning capabilities. The company raised $25M in Series A funding in August 2025 and employs 107 people.
The growth story
Tavily grew from 1 to 107 employees between 2023 and 2026, raising $25M along the way, most recently a Series A in August 2025.
About
Tavily sells APIs that allow AI systems to access and process live web data for applications like sales research, candidate profiling and conversational AI. Its technology aims to reduce hallucinations and outdated information in AI outputs by grounding agents in current web context.
The company reached Series A funding just over a year after its 2024 founding, securing $25M from investors including Alpha Wave Global and Insight Partners. With 107 employees, Tavily has built a substantial team quickly, though median tenure is just one year, suggesting rapid scaling.
Founders and leadership
Engineering is Tavily's largest function with 27 employees, representing about a quarter of total headcount. The company operates from New York but draws heavily on Israeli technical talent, with many employees coming from Israeli military and intelligence backgrounds.
The Tavily org chart
Rotem Weiss (Founder & CEO) leads 39 mapped leaders with 14 direct reports. Click +N to expand a team; names link to the person’s public profile.
Departments, and which ones grew
Headcount by function: Engineering 34 (+89% YoY), Sales 13 (+333% YoY), Business Development 7 (+17% YoY), Information Technology 6 (+500% YoY), Operations 5 (+67% YoY), Accounting 4 (+300% YoY).
Talent flow
Tavily recruits heavily from Israeli institutions, with the Israel Defense Forces being the top source of talent (15 hires). Other key sources include dbt Labs (10 hires) and Elastic (4 hires). Alumni have gone on to roles at companies like Apple and Hex, with several founding their own ventures.
Most common previous employers of Tavily staff: Israel Defense Forces (15), dbt Labs (10), Elastic (4), Israeli Military Intelligence (4), Columbia University (4), The Bulletin (3). Former Tavily employees most often moved to Mixture of Experts (3), Insight Partners (1), Euno (1), Distyl (1), Apple (1), Hex (1).
Alumni worth knowing
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Web traffic
Traffic mix: 46% direct, 36% search, 2% social, 1% paid.
What this company is made of
Most common skills at Tavily: Python (Programming Language) (48), Leadership (46), SQL (35), Project Management (31), Microsoft Office (30), Microsoft Excel (29), Communication (29), Java (27).
Where the team actually sits
Tavily people are concentrated in New York, United States (31), Tel Aviv District, Israel (22), New York City Metropolitan Area (9), Texas, United States (7).
Search footprint
Tavily attracts about 130 organic search visits a month, traffic worth roughly $0K a month if bought through ads. It gained 98 ranking keywords and lost 53 in the last period.
Frequently asked
Tavily has 107 employees as of September 2026.
Tavily has raised $25M in total, most recently a Series A round in August 2025.
Tavily was founded in 2024 by Rotem Weiss, Assaf Elovic.
Rotem Weiss (Founder & CEO) sits at the top of Tavily's reporting structure, with 14 direct reports.
The most common previous employers of current Tavily staff are Israel Defense Forces (15 people), dbt Labs (10 people), Elastic (4 people).
Former Tavily employees most often move to Mixture of Experts (3), Insight Partners (1), Euno (1).
Tavily attracts about 130 organic search visits a month, worth roughly $0K a month in equivalent ad spend.
The most common skills among Tavily staff are Python (Programming Language), Leadership, SQL, Project Management, Microsoft Office.
Tavily staff are concentrated in New York, United States (31), Tel Aviv District, Israel (22), New York City Metropolitan Area (9).
Tavily has about 34 people in Engineering, up 89% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Tavily has about 13 people in Sales, up 333% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Computed from 103 current and 21 former Tavily profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
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