Octen
California, US · 2 known investors
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Octen builds LLM-native web search infrastructure for AI agents, offering real-time multimodal search across text, images, and video, along with text and vision embedding models and tools to convert URLs into clean markdown. It provides a unified API for retrieval and access to top-tier models with integrated search.
Founders & leadership
KZ

Kuan ZouFounder
Investors · 2
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$10M disclosed across 1 round · 2026
- $10MseedApr 2026 · 3 sourcesSource ↗
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Octen do?
- Octen builds LLM-native web search infrastructure for AI agents, offering real-time multimodal search across text, images, and video, along with text and vision embedding models and tools to convert URLs into clean markdown. It provides a unified API for retrieval and access to top-tier models with integrated search.
- Who founded Octen?
- Octen was founded by Kuan Zou.
- Who are Octen's investors?
- Octen's investors include Broom Ventures, Square Peg Capital.
- How much funding has Octen raised?
- Octen has disclosed $10M raised across 1 round.
- Where is Octen headquartered?
- Octen is headquartered in California, US.
