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Diffbot is an AI-powered web data extraction and knowledge graph company that transforms unstructured web data into structured, usable data for enterprise applications. The platform offers a suite of tools including Extract, which uses computer vision models to classify any web page and return clean structured fields in approximately 300ms without rules or scrapers; Crawl, which walks entire sites to produce…

High Tech · AI Infrastructure, · Palo Alto, United States

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Diffbot is an AI-powered web data extraction and knowledge graph company that transforms unstructured web data into structured, usable data for enterprise applications. The platform offers a suite of tools including Extract, which uses computer vision models to classify any web page and return clean structured fields in approximately 300ms without rules or scrapers; Crawl, which walks entire sites to produce structured datasets; Natural Language API for entity and relationship extraction; and a Knowledge Graph that serves as the largest structured database of the public web with billions of people, organizations, products, and articles. Diffbot also offers a self-hostable Web Search API that returns results in under 300ms P90 latency, packaged into just 4TB of essential web content for offline-capable local search. The platform serves use cases including market intelligence, news monitoring, machine learning training data, e-commerce, sales brief generation, financial due diligence, and OSINT. Founded and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Diffbot has raised approximately $12.5 million in Series A funding from investors including Tencent, Felicis Ventures, Amplify Partners, Valor Equity Partners, Bloomberg Beta, Matrix Partners, and Vertex Ventures.

Business model

Web Scraping Software > Web Scraper,

Big Data Analytics > Data Analytics > Text Analytics,

AI Infrastructure > Enabling Technologies > Software > Data Extraction

Team background

Company Wise > eBay,

College Wise > University of California (Berkeley)

Institutional investors

SSETencentFelicis VenturesAmplify PartnersValor Equity PartnersBloomberg BetaMatrixWebb Investment NetworkVertex VenturesDG VenturesSpider CapitalAndy BechtolsheimBill LeeGeorges HarikSky Dayton

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