Neeva

DISAMBIGUATION / DUPLICATE NOTICE: This profile (profile_id 10268196, source domain 'neeva.co') refers to the SAME company already fully researched under profile_id 10087990 (source domain 'neeva.com') — the ad-free, privacy-focused search engine founded by Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan, later acquired by Snowflake. There is no evidence of a second, distinct company also named 'Neeva' operating at the domain neeva.co. Multiple independent checks confirm this: (1) Greylock's own official portfolio page for its 'Neeva' investment (greylock.com/portfolio/neeva/) describes the ad-free search engine founded by Ramaswamy and Raghunathan, headquartered in Mountain View, CA, and links out to the LinkedIn handle 'linkedin.com/company/neevaco/' — the vanity slug 'neevaco' (Neeva + Co) is the most plausible origin of the 'neeva.co' domain string that ended up in this source database row, i.e. a scraping/data-entry artifact conflating a LinkedIn vanity URL fragment with an actual second-level domain, rather than a genuine second company. (2) A live check of https://neeva.co (August 2026) shows it 301-redirects to https://doquizzes.com/neeva-quiz/, an unrelated online trivia/quiz website with no connection to search technology, Greylock, or the Neeva founders — consistent with 'neeva.co' being either a domain that was never owned by the real Neeva Inc., or one that lapsed and was subsequently acquired by an unrelated domain-parking/content operator. (3) Illustrating how thoroughly the original company's web presence has decayed post-acquisition, even the canonical neeva.com domain is no longer under the original owner's control: RDAP lookup shows neeva.com was re-registered on 2024-08-07 via registrar Dynadot with nameservers pointing to ParkLogic.com, a domain-parking service — meaning Snowflake/Neeva did not renew the original domain after winding down the consumer product, and it was picked up by a third party. Given all of this, 'neeva.co' should be treated as a duplicate/erroneous alias row for the same underlying company as profile_id 10087990, not as an independent portfolio company, and this entry has been researched and populated in full (per project requirements that every profile_id carry complete data) using the same verified facts as the canonical neeva.com profile.

Founding story: Neeva was founded in 2019 by Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan, two veterans of Google's advertising business. Ramaswamy joined Google in 2003 working on AdWords infrastructure and rose over 15 years to become Senior Vice President of Ads & Commerce, before leaving in 2018 and spending roughly a year as a venture partner at Greylock Partners. He holds a B.Tech in computer science from IIT Madras and a PhD in computer science from Brown University. Raghunathan held engineering and monetization leadership roles at Google/YouTube prior to co-founding Neeva. The company was headquartered in Mountain View, California, and had about 25 employees as of a June 2020 New York Times profile, growing to roughly 50 employees by the time of its 2023 shutdown announcement.

Product and funding: Neeva's thesis was that ad-supported search inherently conflicts with users' interests, and that a subscription-funded, ad-free, tracker-free search engine could better serve users while respecting privacy. The company raised a total of $77.5 million from investors across two named funding rounds (per Crunchbase): a Series A and a Series B, the latter led by Greylock and Sequoia Capital, with Inovia Capital also participating (Inovia partner and former Google CFO Patrick Pichette joined as a board observer). Greylock's own portfolio page identifies Series A as the round in which it first partnered with Neeva. The company publicly launched its ad-free subscription search product in the U.S. in June 2021, later adding a free ad-free tier, and offered a paid Neeva Premium tier (~$4.95/month) bundling a password manager and VPN via partnerships with LastPass and Bitdefender. It expanded to the UK, France, and Germany in October 2022, and launched a generative AI answer engine, NeevaAI, in the U.S. in January 2023, expanding internationally in February 2023 amid the broader ChatGPT-driven AI wave.

Business model

Subscription (freemium) consumer search engine: a free ad-free tier monetized indirectly by user growth, and a paid Neeva Premium tier (~$4.95/month) bundling privacy tools (password manager, VPN via partnerships with LastPass and Bitdefender). Initially sourced results via Microsoft Bing's API and partner data (Yelp, Weather Channel, Apple Maps) before building proprietary ranking/crawling technology; later added a generative AI answer engine (NeevaAI). In 2023 pivoted away from consumer subscriptions toward enterprise/generative AI search technology shortly before being acquired by Snowflake.

Consumer subscription fees (Neeva Premium, ~$4.95/month); reportedly generated less than $1 million in subscription revenue in total before shutting down consumer search, per co-founder Sridhar Ramaswamy's sworn testimony in the US v. Google antitrust case.