He was in a coffee meeting with Nexus Venture Partner's Abhishek Sharma at the Blue Bottle in San Francisco's South Park (a favorite VC haunt). While describing the future of the company, he was gesturing so animatedly that his chair tipped over. 'I actually fell out of my chair. And Abhishek, as a great investor does, caught the chair and me as I was falling,' Peffer described with a laugh. That felt like a symbol for how the founder/investor relationship is supposed to work. 'I think that was a clear signal that he was the right partner.' Firecrawl offers a popular open source web crawler for developers and AI agents, with a commercially supported version available through an API. It's used by 350,000 developers, has nearly 50,000 stars on GitHub, and its notable customers include Shopify, Replit, and Zapier as well as 'some of the largest hedge funds in the world,' Peffer told TechCrunch. And, he says, the company is already profitable. 'We saw his email come in,' Peffer said....
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