# Rotem Weiss

> Rotem Weiss is founder and CEO of Tavily (a Nebius company). Tavily API + MCP on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Founder and CEO, Tavily (a Nebius company).

Rotem 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.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rotem-weiss/

## What Rotem builds

- [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.

## Backed by

- [Insight Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/insight-partners/)

## Questions

### Who is Rotem Weiss?

Rotem 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.

### What does Tavily make?

Anchor 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.

### Who has invested in Tavily?

The sources our research read name Insight Partners.

### How are Rotem's tools graded?

Tavily API + MCP is graded BB, 77 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rotem-weiss/
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/tavily/
- https://x.com/tavilyai
- https://www.tavily.com/
- https://www.tavily.com/contact

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