Browser Use Secures $17 Million in Seed Funding to Revolutionize AI Web Automation

San Francisco, CA – Browser Use, a pioneering startup co-founded by Magnus Müller and Gregor Zunic, has successfully raised $17 million in seed funding to advance its mission of enabling AI agents to interact seamlessly with the web. The funding round was led by Felicis’ Astasia Myers, with significant participation from prominent investors including Paul Graham, A Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners. This substantial investment underscores the growing confidence in Browser Use's innovative approach to web automation for artificial intelligence.

Magnus Müller, co-founder of Browser Use, recently highlighted the simplicity and power of their technology on social media, stating, > "It was never easier to create tools for your agent. 1. Do it once 2. This agent watches & turns it into a parameterized API 3. Rerun reliable, fast & as often as you want." He further posed the ambitious question, "Can we turn the entire web into tool calls?" This vision is central to Browser Use's platform, which allows AI agents to observe user actions and convert them into reusable, parameterized APIs for efficient and reliable task execution.

Founded in 2024 through ETH Zurich’s Student Project House accelerator and a participant in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch, Browser Use addresses a critical challenge in AI development: making the dynamic web accessible to intelligent agents. The company's open-source Python package integrates Playwright with an LLM-driven control loop, transforming complex website elements into a "text-like" format that AI can readily understand and interact with. This method offers a more robust alternative to traditional vision-based automation, which often breaks due to minor UI changes.

Browser Use has rapidly gained traction within the developer community, boasting over 50,000 stars on GitHub and engaging more than 15,000 active developers. The platform's ability to facilitate tasks such as login automation, data extraction, and quality assurance testing has positioned it as a foundational layer for the next generation of AI agents. Investors and industry experts view Browser Use as a key enabler for end-to-end automation of human tasks, predicting a future where AI-driven workflows increasingly outnumber human interactions online.