Agentic AI search and workspace
2023·Palo Alto
Genspark builds an agentic search product and AI workspace, founded by former Bing and Google AI leaders. It raised a $275M Series B in November 2025 at a $1.25B post-money valuation, and secondary sources report a later extension at a higher valuation.
Conversational AI search and discovery for fashion commerce
2024·New York·$50M
Daydream is a chat-based shopping agent for fashion founded by former Stitch Fix COO Julie Bornstein, competing with traditional product search and discovery. It raised a $50M seed round in 2024 and launched in public beta in June 2025. Not related to the AI-native SEO agency of the same name.
AI news aggregation with multi-source summarization
2023·San Francisco·$11M
Particle is an AI news reader that clusters and summarizes coverage across sources with attribution, relevant to how AI intermediaries surface publisher content. Aggregated sources report a $10.9M Series A.
AI answer engine
2022·San Francisco
Perplexity operates a conversational answer engine with cited sources, a Comet browser and publisher revenue-sharing programmes, and is one of the largest referrers of AI-driven traffic to publishers. Aggregators report total funding of roughly $1.7B across eleven rounds, with a September 2025 round of $200M at a $20B valuation.
AI answer engine for developers
2022·San Francisco
Phind is a Y Combinator-backed answer engine focused on technical and programming questions, returning cited answers rather than link lists. Funding details were not verified against a primary source.
AI search and agent platform for enterprises
2020·Palo Alto
You.com operates an AI search product and a web-search API for enterprises and AI developers, founded by former Salesforce chief scientist Richard Socher. Funding details were not verified against a primary source.