
Diffbot is a leading AI company focused on building an autonomous system that synthesizes human knowledge. They operate the world's largest automated Knowledge Graph by crawling the entire public web, providing structured data for various applications. Their products, including Extract, Crawl, and Knowledge Graph, enable organizations to access and utilize vast amounts of web data efficiently. With a strong emphasis on machine learning and natural language processing, Diffbot serves over 400 companies across multiple industries, positioning itself as a key player in the data extraction and knowledge management space.

Diffbot is a leading AI company focused on building an autonomous system that synthesizes human knowledge. They operate the world's largest automated Knowledge Graph by crawling the entire public web, providing structured data for various applications. Their products, including Extract, Crawl, and Knowledge Graph, enable organizations to access and utilize vast amounts of web data efficiently. With a strong emphasis on machine learning and natural language processing, Diffbot serves over 400 companies across multiple industries, positioning itself as a key player in the data extraction and knowledge management space.
Core product: Automated web extraction APIs and a web-scale Knowledge Graph
Founded / leadership: Founded by Michael (Mike) Tung (CEO); early cofounder Leith Abdulla referenced
Customers: Serves over 400 companies
Funding (known): $2.0M seed (2012); $10.0M Series A (2016) — total disclosed ~$13.0M
Employees (snapshot): 34
Automated web data extraction, knowledge graph construction, and knowledge-as-a-service for AI and enterprise data needs.
Artificial intelligence / Data infrastructure
$2,000,000
Seed/angel round with technology veteran investors
$10,000,000
Series A announced to scale the company's global index and AI efforts
“Includes institutional lead investors (Tencent, Felicis Ventures) and notable technology angel investors in earlier round(s) such as Andy Bechtolsheim and others”