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  "markdown": "Founder and CEO, Tavily (a Nebius company).\n\nRotem Weiss is founder and CEO of Tavily, whose API gives AI agents real-time web search, extraction and crawling. A data scientist, he founded the company in 2024. It grew out of the open-source GPT Researcher project, raised a $20 million Series A led by Insight Partners in 2025 and agreed to join Nebius in February 2026.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rotem-weiss/\n\n## What Rotem builds\n\n- [Tavily API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tavily-mcp.md), graded BB, 77/100, in Web search APIs. Tavily's REST API for web search, URL extraction, site mapping, crawling and cited research reports, with the official MCP server hosted at mcp.tavily.com or run locally from npm. Founder and CEO, Tavily (a Nebius company), researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Insight Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/insight-partners/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Rotem Weiss?\n\nRotem Weiss is founder and CEO of Tavily, whose API gives AI agents real-time web search, extraction and crawling. A data scientist, he founded the company in 2024. It grew out of the open-source GPT Researcher project, raised a $20 million Series A led by Insight Partners in 2025 and agreed to join Nebius in February 2026.\n\n### What does Tavily make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Tavily API + MCP from Tavily. Tavily's REST API for web search, URL extraction, site mapping, crawling and cited research reports, with the official MCP server hosted at mcp.tavily.com or run locally from npm.\n\n### Who has invested in Tavily?\n\nThe sources our research read name Insight Partners.\n\n### How are Rotem's tools graded?\n\nTavily API + MCP is graded BB, 77 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rotem-weiss/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/company/tavily/\n- https://x.com/tavilyai\n- https://www.tavily.com/\n- https://www.tavily.com/contact\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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