Keenable, a new startup founded by Andrey Styskin and Matthias Petri, has announced it has secured $26 million in seed funding. Accel led the investment round, which also saw participation from Conviction Partners and various business angels.
The company is focused on creating a web search index optimised for AI agents, departing from traditional search engines built for human users. Keenable states its index already contains more than 100 billion documents, with its API being utilised by several AI labs and inference providers.
Andrey Styskin, who previously led Yandex's search, AI, and cloud division, highlighted that AI chatbots perform better when their responses are grounded in source documents. Keenable recently partnered with voice AI company Gradium to support live information retrieval.
The startup plans to double its current team of 15 engineering staff by the end of the year, using the new funding to build its go-to-market strategy.