Context.dev founder Yahia Bakour says the company raised $9 million led by General Catalyst to give AI agents live web data through one API
We raised $9M to give your agents the internet. Led by @generalcatalyst, with @orangecollectv and Robinhood Ventures. Search, scrape, crawl, monitor with one API trusted by 800+ customers. We’re making it ridiculously easy to build with web data.
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Agents are only useful if they can read the live web reliably, and investors are funding startups that handle the scraping and structuring for them.
The customer count and other figures are self reported by Context.dev's founder and chief executive. Context.dev was in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch and was called Brand.dev until it rebranded earlier this year.
Deep dive
On October 19, Yahia Bakour posted that his company raised $9 million to give your agents the internet, led by General Catalyst with Orange Collective and Robinhood Ventures. He said its single API lets developers search, scrape, crawl and monitor the web, is trusted by more than 800 customers, and aims to make it ridiculously easy to build with web data.
The company's blog post says it is a seed round. It says Context.dev started as Brand.dev, an API for company logos, colors and fonts, and became Context.dev this year as customers asked for products, page text and whole site crawls, and as agents needed a way to read the internet. It says teams use it to keep data on more than 20 million companies fresh and to power more than 3,000 integrations, and that it has never shipped a breaking change. New sign ups in the next 24 hours get 50,000 free credits.
Its Y Combinator launch page, from about three months ago, cited more than 400 customers and a team of four, and said Bakour previously led engineering at Sunrun, worked at Amazon, and built and sold two startups.
The launch video shows Bakour explaining the product, with diagrams of the web sources it collects from.
What to expect next
Watch whether Context.dev can turn its customer count into large, lasting usage against rivals that Dealroom names, such as Firecrawl, Exa and Parallel. Dealroom also notes reports that big websites are starting to block AI agents, which could make reliable access more valuable or harder to provide. Also watch how the team grows with the new funding, since it was four people at launch.