Keenable Raises $26 Million to Build a Search Engine Made for AI Agents
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San Francisco-based startup Keenable has secured $26 million in seed funding to develop a specialized search engine tailored for artificial intelligence agents. Accel led the round, with Conviction Partners and angels from Amazon, Google, and Databricks also participating. Keenable's mission is to address the limitations of conventional search engines, which struggle to keep up with the demands of AI agents that require scanning vast amounts of web content for comprehensive answers.
Andrey Styskin and Matthias Petri, both former search engineers at Yandex and Amazon respectively, founded Keenable in 2025. They recognized the need for a more efficient search solution when they observed the financial burdens and performance issues associated with crawling the entire web for large language model (LLM) training. With their expertise in search systems and compression algorithms, they aim to revolutionize the way AI agents access and process information from the internet.
The newly raised capital will allow Keenable to expand its team to 30 members by the end of 2026. Currently, the startup employs about fifteen individuals. The funds will be used to build and scale a massive library of over one hundred billion documents from the web, offering AI labs access to their API for training and real-time searches.
Keenable is also developing a "Web Query Language" to enable AI agents to utilize multiple answers from various sources and provides "point-in-time retrieval" to enable AI systems to view the historical versions of web pages.
Keenable's pricing starts at $1 per 1,000 API requests, making it a cost-effective solution for AI applications that require rapid and comprehensive web searches. As Google and Microsoft tighten access to their search APIs, Keenable offers a viable alternative for AI companies seeking efficient and affordable web search infrastructure.
With its focus on "unbundling" search from big tech, Keenable aims to democratize access to powerful web search capabilities for AI applications across various industries, including market mapping, price monitoring, and lead research.
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