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Raised $12B in Q4</h1>
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<a href="/author/sarah-perez/">Sarah
</a></span>...# AI Startups Raised $12B in Q4
**By Sarah Perez** | January 15, 2024
AI startups raised a record $12 billion in Q4 2024,
driven by enterprise demand for autonomous agents
and infrastructure tooling.
## Key Highlights
- **Total funding:** $12.1B across 847 deals
- **Largest round:** Anthropic ($2B Series D)
- **Fastest growing:** AI agents (+340% YoY)
- **Top investors:** a16z, Sequoia, Accel
## Enterprise AI Leads the Pack
The enterprise segment accounted for 63% of
total funding, with companies building...You Handle the AI.
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curl "https://api.webscraperapi.ai/v2/scrape\
?api_key=YOUR_KEY\
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&output=markdown\
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Chain endpoints together to build complete data pipelines. Search, scrape, extract, verify. Four API calls to go from a query to qualified leads.
Step 1: Search
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Customer Discovery
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{
"mcpServers": {
"webscraperapi": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["webscraperapi-mcp"],
"env": { "API_KEY": "your-api-key" }
}
}
}Find the top 5 AI startups that raised Series A this month, get their founders' emails, and put it in a spreadsheet.
I'll search for recent AI Series A rounds, scrape the details, and verify the contact info.
Done. Here are the 5 AI startups with verified founder contacts:
| Company | Founder | Raised | |
|---|---|---|---|
| NeuralFlow | Sarah Chen | sarah@neuralflow.ai | $12M |
| AgentKit | James Park | james@agentkit.co | $8.5M |
| DataMesh | Priya Sharma | priya@datamesh.io | $15M |
| SynthLab | Alex Rivera | alex@synthlab.ai | $10M |
| CortexAI | Ming Wu | ming@cortexai.com | $20M |
One API Instead of Five
Other tools do scraping. Or search. Or extraction. WebScraperAPI does all of it, plus email verification and tech detection, with MCP tools for AI agents. One API key, one bill.
| Feature | WebScraperAPI | Firecrawl | Jina Reader | ScrapingBee | DIY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scrape any URL to markdown | Partial | DIY | |||
| JavaScript rendering | DIY | ||||
| Anti-bot bypass + captchas | |||||
| LLM-powered extraction | Partial | ||||
| Google Search API | Partial | ||||
| Google Shopping API | |||||
| Email verification | |||||
| Tech stack detection | |||||
| MCP tools (Claude/Cursor) | |||||
| Maintenance required | None | None | None | None | Constant |
| Free tier | 500 credits | 500 credits | limited | None | n/a |
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- Scraping + JS rendering
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- All output formats
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- Email verification
- Tech detection
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