{"id":658512,"date":"2025-03-23T23:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T20:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/browser-use-the-tool-making-it-easier-for-ai-agents-to-navigate-websites-raises-17m\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T23:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T20:30:24","slug":"browser-use-the-tool-making-it-easier-for-ai-agents-to-navigate-websites-raises-17m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/browser-use-the-tool-making-it-easier-for-ai-agents-to-navigate-websites-raises-17m\/","title":{"rendered":"#Browser Use, the tool making it easier for AI ‘agents’ to navigate websites, raises $17M"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We may not have an agreed-upon definition of AI \u201cagent\u201d yet, but a multitude of startups want to create \u201cagentic\u201d tools to automate various tasks online. One such firm, Browser Use<\/a>, has attracted a ton of interest from developers and investors thanks to its solution that makes websites more \u201creadable\u201d for AI agents.<\/p>\n

Browser Use told TechCrunch that it has raised a sizable $17 million seed funding round led by Felicis\u2019 Astasia Myers with participation from Paul Graham, A Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners. The company\u2019s funding hasn\u2019t previously been reported.<\/p>\n

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Browser Use, part of Y Combinator\u2019s 2025 winter batch, has gained notoriety in recent months. Chinese startup Butterfly Effect\u2019s use of Brower Use in its viral Manus tool drove awareness to new heights.<\/p>\n

Magnus M\u00fcller and Gregor Zunic founded Browser Use last year through ETH Zurich\u2019s Student Project House accelerator. M\u00fcller had been working on web-scraping tools for years, and met Zunic in 2024 while the pair were getting their master\u2019s degrees in data science<\/a>. Together, according to M\u00fcller, they came up with the idea of combining web scraping with data science to prompt a browser to perform a task.<\/p>\n

M\u00fcller and Zunic built a Browser Use demo in five weeks \u2014 and it took off. Subsequently, they open-sourced it. <\/p>\n

Browser Use essentially breaks down the buttons and elements of a website into a more digestible, \u201ctext-like\u201d format for agents. This helps the agents understand the different options and make decisions autonomously.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of agents rely on vision-based systems and try and navigate websites through screenshots, and in [the] process, things break,\u201d M\u00fcller said. \u201cWe convert [websites] into something agents can understand. This app<\/a>roach means we can run the same tasks again and again at a cheaper cost.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an increasing number of AI companies that want to make their agents interact with websites more gracefully, and M\u00fcller thinks Browser Use can become a \u201cfundamental layer\u201d serving this need. He added that more than 20 companies in the current Y Combinator Winter batch used Browser Use for their own requirements.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are companies coming to us and saying, \u2018What can we do to make it easier for agents to navigate our website?\u2019\u201d M\u00fcller said. \u201cThere are sites \u2014 for example, LinkedIn \u2014 that change the way the website works all the time, so agents often fail on sites like those.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Myers, Felicis has been actively looking at the AI agents space for the past several years, and Browser Use felt like the right opportunity to grow the firm\u2019s portfolio there. She said that the company\u2019s founding team \u2014 and its open-source-first approach \u2014 sealed the deal<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think web AI agents are the next frontier that really helps with the end-to-end automation of human tasks,\u201d Myers told TechCrunch. \u201c[W]eb AI agents are this dynamic bridge between static pre-trained models that are mostly text-focused in the ever-changing digital landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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