Agentic web search infrastructure startup Keenable raises $26M
Artificial intelligence startup Keenable.ai Inc. said today it has exited stealth with $26 million in funding to try and revamp a web search infrastructure that was built for humans, rather than the billions of autonomous agents that many believe will soon dominate the internet.
The seed round was backed by investors including Accel, Brightwing Capital, Conviction Partners and scOp Venture Capital, and saw participation from a number of unnamed Google LLC and Amazon.com Inc. executives as angels.
Keenable has developed an independent web search index that spans more than 100 billion documents. Through its index, it optimizes search for the type of low-latency, high-frequency queries conducted by AI agents, serving use cases including market mapping, pricing monitoring and lead enrichment.
The startup has developed application programming interfaces for each of these use cases that support straightforward, natural language searches as well as cleaned content fetching. It’s able to delivery “model-ready inputs” with minimal delay. It’s priced at $1 per 1,000 API requests, aimed at “frontier-scale” users, the company said. Keenable also supports point-in-time historical queries, which means models can search the internet as it existed at a specific point in time, instead of accessing it as it exists right now.
