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Diffbot

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…

📍 Palo Alto, United States · AI Infrastructure,

Funding snapshot

Last roundSeries A
Amount$10M
Date11 February 2016
Total raised$12M
Team size31

About

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

SSE Tencent Felicis Ventures Amplify Partners Valor Equity Partners Bloomberg Beta Matrix Webb Investment Network Vertex Ventures DG Ventures Spider Capital Andy Bechtolsheim Bill Lee Georges Harik Sky Dayton

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