Firecrawl Raises $75M Series B, Launches Alexandria Data Platform for AI Agents

The pitch here is less about Firecrawl's crawler than about Alexandria's claim to be a pre-packaged, agent-readable corpus — a shift from live web retrieval toward curated data supply, which is where defensibility and vendor lock-in tend to concentrate. The 21% quality edge is self-reported and benchmarked on directory-style questions, so it says little about open-ended research. Whether Alexandria's aggregated sources stay licensed, current and differentiated from what frontier model providers bundle natively is the open question.