AI search and agent platform for enterprises
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.
You.com was founded in 2020 by Richard Socher and is based in Palo Alto.
No funding has been publicly disclosed for You.com, or none that could be verified against a primary source. Absence here means "not disclosed", not "not funded".
Direct and adjacent competitors tracked in the Atlas.
Agentic AI search and workspace
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
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
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.
Ad-free generative answer engine
Andi is a small independent generative search engine that returns conversational answers with sources and no advertising. No funding has been publicly disclosed in the sources reviewed.
AI answer engine
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
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.