Search Startups

Exa is an AI-powered search API that retrieves high-quality information from the web in real-time, designed for AI agents, developers, and applications that require precise natural-language search capabilities. The company serves developers, AI teams, and applications like Cursor, Cognition, and HubSpot that need semantically intelligent search infrastructure.

9 investors

Reducto provides document processing APIs that parse, classify, extract, and edit data from documents at enterprise scale. The platform combines OCR and vision language models to transform unstructured documents into structured data for AI teams across finance, healthcare, legal, and other industries.

6 investors

Shaped is a relevance engine that powers personalized content feeds, hybrid search, and AI agent memory retrieval for real-time personalization applications. It serves product teams, developers, and AI applications requiring behavioral-based recommendations and contextual retrieval.

3 investors

Undermind provides AI-powered research discovery tools that help R&D teams find relevant scientific papers and research quickly. The platform serves biotech and pharmaceutical companies conducting drug discovery and development work.

3 investors

Origami is an AI-powered platform that helps sales teams identify and enrich prospective customers through intelligent prospecting and signal-based lead generation. The company serves modern go-to-market teams seeking to accelerate their sales workflows.

2 investors

Pally is a personal assistant that lives in iMessage and connects to multiple communication and productivity tools to automatically organize information from emails, messages, calendars, and documents. It proactively handles reminders, research, task management, and can make calls or complete bookings on behalf of users.

2 investors

Phind offers a search engine that applies reasoning algorithms to locate relevant information and generates interactive visual presentations of results.

2 investors

Trieve provides backend infrastructure for implementing search, retrieval augmented generation, and recommendation systems, offering pre-built tools for ranking tuning, model customization, and hybrid semantic-keyword search.

2 investors

Andi AI is an AI-powered search engine that uses proprietary indexing technology to deliver search results with fact-verified answers. It serves individual users and developers through both consumer search and API products, competing in the AI search market.

1 investor

Artemis is an AI-powered prospecting tool that helps users identify and reach decision makers on LinkedIn and Sales Navigator. It streamlines the process of finding target stakeholders for sales outreach.

1 investor

Branch AI provides search box software for websites that generates AI-powered answers, recommendations, and product comparisons to increase user conversions and organic search visibility.

1 investor

Capuchin is an AI-powered enterprise search and knowledge management platform designed for engineering organizations that work with hardware, antennas, RF systems, optics, robotics, and similar technical products. The system operates entirely on-premise, indexing product data from PDM/PLM systems, ERPs, and collaboration tools while maintaining ITAR and CMMC compliance for defense and government-facing engineering teams.

1 investor

Cerenovus unifies scattered corporate data—documents, emails, spreadsheets, chat messages—into a knowledge graph that both people and AI can query, then analyzes organizational workflows to surface operational inefficiencies and recommend improvements for executive decision-making.

1 investor

Glimmer provides an AI-powered search tool for large PDF documents that uses natural language queries to locate information across hundreds or thousands of pages and returns results with source citations. The service targets professionals in construction, law, finance, and healthcare who regularly need to extract specific information from lengthy documents.

1 investor

Lumona is a search engine that aggregates social media discussions and applies AI processing to surface relevant insights, allowing users to quickly review crowdsourced opinions on consumer products without manually searching across platforms.

1 investor

Onyx is an open-source application platform for large language models that enables teams to leverage any LLM while maintaining data transparency and customization. The platform integrates internet search, internal knowledge connectors, code execution, and model context protocol integrations to provide enterprise and startup teams with flexible AI deployment options.

1 investor

Serafis indexes podcasts, interviews, and independent media to extract structured intelligence about companies and themes. The platform provides programmatic access via API, AI agent tools, and data warehouse integrations for financial and investment professionals seeking market-moving narratives.

1 investor

Shepherd is an AI assistant that integrates with a team's existing tools (messaging, code editors, CRM platforms) to create a unified memory system. It automatically captures messages, calls, and commits, allowing teams and AI agents to query and act on company information without manual tagging.

1 investor

Structured Labs builds knowledge infrastructure for AI agents by converting business data into structured, high-fidelity datasets used for search, recommendations, and intelligent applications. They provide the training-data layer for the agentic internet through products including Waldium and Preswald.

1 investor

Webhound develops AI agents designed to conduct extended research tasks and produce either organized datasets or fully sourced reports, with output quality improving as computational resources and time increase.

1 investor