Browser Use, an AI startup, raised $17 million in funding led by Felicis Ventures. Other investors included A Capital, Liquid2, Nexus Ventures, Paul Graham, Pioneer Fund, SV Angel, and Y Combinator.
The company works on changing website interfaces into structured text that AI models can easily understand and process. In just five weeks, they created a demo and made it available to the public. This technology turns website elements into a “text-like” format, allowing AI agents to understand and make decisions on their own.
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In a media post, the company said: “The internet is the largest unstructured data source in the world, but interacting with it still requires human effort—clicking buttons, filling out forms, and navigating through websites manually. With the rise of LLMs and autonomous agents, this is changing. We are building the infrastructure that enables AI to interact with the web as seamlessly as humans do.”
The startup’s approach is said to be faster and more accurate than vision-based automation. It aims to create a more reliable system by avoiding the errors that often happen with pixel-based navigation.
Müller said: “A lot of agents rely on vision-based systems and try and navigate websites through screenshots, and in [the] process, things break. We convert [websites] into something agents can understand. This approach means we can run the same tasks again and again at a cheaper cost.”
About Browser Use
Browser Use was founded in 2024 by Magnus Müller and Gregor Zunic through ETH Zurich’s Student Project House accelerator. The company aims to combine web scraping and data science to help a browser complete tasks.
