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Keenable raises $26M to index for agents

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Ex-Yandex search lead Andrey Styskin's Keenable raised a $26M Accel-led seed to build a 100B+ document web index specifically for AI agents.

By Rami Steitieh Tuesday, 25 August · 20:05 UTC Read 1 min · 1 source

Keenable exited stealth with a $26 million Accel-led seed round to build a web-scale search index built for AI agents rather than human search. Co-founded by former Yandex search lead Andrey Styskin, the company says its 100-billion-document index is already used in production by several AI labs and inference providers, as Google and Microsoft pull back access to their own search APIs.

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01Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agentstechcrunch.com · reporting

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