Top 34 Startups developing AI for search
Nov 10, 2025
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These startups use AI to create better text and image search engines. They also develop conversational search tools that provide better experience.
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Country: USA | Funding: $14.5M
Firecrawl is an API service designed to transform URLs into clean markdown or structured data for easy integration with LLMs.
Firecrawl is an API service designed to transform URLs into clean markdown or structured data for easy integration with LLMs.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $357.8M
Coveo provides cloud-based AI-powered search and recommendations.
Coveo provides cloud-based AI-powered search and recommendations.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.5B
Perplexity is an AI-chat-based conversational search engine that delivers answers to questions using language models.
Perplexity is an AI-chat-based conversational search engine that delivers answers to questions using language models.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.4B
AlphaSense is a market intelligence and search platform that uses artificial intelligence allowing professionals to make critical decisions.
AlphaSense is a market intelligence and search platform that uses artificial intelligence allowing professionals to make critical decisions.
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Country: France | Funding: $334.2M
A powerful hosted search engine API, Algolia provides product teams with the resources & tools they need to create fast, relevant search.
A powerful hosted search engine API, Algolia provides product teams with the resources & tools they need to create fast, relevant search.
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Country: China | Funding: $264.9M
Mobvoi is an AI company that developed Chinese voice recognition, natural language processing, and vertical search technology in-house.
Mobvoi is an AI company that developed Chinese voice recognition, natural language processing, and vertical search technology in-house.
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Country: USA | Funding: $161.1M
Hebbia's neural search lets you execute research 10X faster and 10X more accurately.
Hebbia's neural search lets you execute research 10X faster and 10X more accurately.
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Country: USA | Funding: $159.1M
Pryon is an AI company focused on enterprise knowledge management. It uses AI to index and analyze enterprise data
Pryon is an AI company focused on enterprise knowledge management. It uses AI to index and analyze enterprise data
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Country: USA | Funding: $101M
Brain Technologies is an AI company that develops a generative interface allowing software to be in sync with its users' intentions.
Brain Technologies is an AI company that develops a generative interface allowing software to be in sync with its users' intentions.
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Country: South Korea | Funding: $77.1M
Twelve Labs is helping developers build programs that can see, listen, and understand the world as we do.
Twelve Labs is helping developers build programs that can see, listen, and understand the world as we do.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $71M
AnyClip is a video analytics platform that provides media companies with tools to analyze and catalog their video libraries.
AnyClip is a video analytics platform that provides media companies with tools to analyze and catalog their video libraries.
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Country: USA | Funding: $50M
Daydream focuses on providing personalized shopping results through generative AI, machine learning, and computer vision.
Daydream focuses on providing personalized shopping results through generative AI, machine learning, and computer vision.
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Country: Germany | Funding: $45.6M
Next-level semantic search for enterprises fueled by latest NLP and open-source
Next-level semantic search for enterprises fueled by latest NLP and open-source
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Country: USA | Funding: $45M
You, a search engine that uses AI to understand search queries, rank the results and parse the queries into different languages (including programming languages).
You, a search engine that uses AI to understand search queries, rank the results and parse the queries into different languages (including programming languages).
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Country: Germany | Funding: $37.8M
Оpen-source neural search engine making Deep Metric Learning practical to bring the applied AI to the next level.
Оpen-source neural search engine making Deep Metric Learning practical to bring the applied AI to the next level.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $35M
Twiggle is using the most advanced technologies in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing to power next generation e-commerce experiences. Twiggle's solutions are the only search technologies built on both human-like understanding of linguistic structure and a deep retail awareness — allowing your search engine to mimic how an experienced salesperson would (and should) behave.
Twiggle is using the most advanced technologies in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing to power next generation e-commerce experiences. Twiggle's solutions are the only search technologies built on both human-like understanding of linguistic structure and a deep retail awareness — allowing your search engine to mimic how an experienced salesperson would (and should) behave.
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Country: Singapore | Funding: $34M
ViSenze develops advanced visual search and image recognition solutions to help businesses in eCommerce, mCommerce and online advertising.
ViSenze develops advanced visual search and image recognition solutions to help businesses in eCommerce, mCommerce and online advertising.
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Country: Germany | Funding: €12.2M
Nyris is an image search engine that is used as a software as a service.
Nyris is an image search engine that is used as a software as a service.
