Keenable Secures $26 Million Seed Round for 100 Billion-Document AI Search Index

1 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Aug 25

$26 million in seed funding led by Accel will help Keenable expand its web-search infrastructure for AI agents, after the startup recently emerged from stealth.
More than 100 billion documents are already indexed, and Keenable says its API is in production at several AI labs and inference providers for both model training and runtime retrieval.
Founder Andrey Styskin, a former Yandex and Amazon search executive, argues AI chatbots need cheaper, AI-optimized indexing and retrieval because scanning the open web at scale is prohibitively expensive.
Google and Microsoft have tightened access to search APIs, according to Accel, leaving few web-scale infrastructure options for AI companies and strengthening Keenable's pitch.
A 15-engineer team across the U.S. and Europe plans to double headcount by year-end as Keenable chases a broader shift away from traditional 'ten blue links' toward agent-focused search.