68 Best Search Engine Computing Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Search Engine Computing Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 68 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $5.9b. The average funding per company in this subset is $86.5m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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yummly logo

yummly

A company offering a visual and semantic recipe search engine and aggregator.

5

Funding Rounds

$30.8m

Money raised

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Elastic

Elastic is a software company that creates products for searching for information on the Internet. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam.

4

Funding Rounds

$165.0m

Money raised

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DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is a company developing an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding filtered results to meet personalized search results.

3

Funding Rounds

$113.0m

Money raised

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Algolia

Algolia is a company designing and building search and discovery API for websites and mobile apps. It participated in the W14 cohort of Y Combinator.

9

Funding Rounds

$462.2m

Money raised

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BenchSci

BenchSci is a biotechnology company with a machine learning platform for researching biological compounds. It was founded in 2015 and is located in Toronto, Canada.

6

Funding Rounds

$83.3m

Money raised

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Etherscan

Etherscan is a block explorer for Ethereum.

2

Funding Rounds

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AlphaSense

AlphaSense is a technology company that has developed an artificial intelligence platform for market intelligence and analysis. It was founded in 2011 and is located in San Francisco, California.

7

Funding Rounds

$918.0m

Money raised

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Zomato

Zomato is a company providing a search engine application that offers information on restaurants and online food delivery.

5

Funding Rounds

$528.0m

Money raised

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Vespa.ai

Vespa.ai is a company developing a platform for low-latency computations over large, evolving data sets.

2

Funding Rounds

$62.0m

Money raised

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Q-Sensei

Q-Sensei is a Brooklyn-based software company developing an enterprise search and analytics software.

5

Funding Rounds

$11.7m

Money raised

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Teleport (company)

Teleport is a Palo Alto, California-based company developing a software to assist users to find their ideal place to live and work based on their preferences for income, living costs, and quality of life.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

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ThoughtSpot

ThoughtSpot is a business intelligence platform for exploring, analyzing, and sharing real-time business analytics data.

6

Funding Rounds

$613.7m

Money raised

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Ecosia

Web search engine that uses profits to plant trees

3

Funding Rounds

$21.5k

Money raised

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Rockset

Rockset is a San Mateo, California-based developer of a real-time analytics platform built to operate in the cloud and offer users quick queries on real-time data and user-facing analytics.

3

Funding Rounds

$21.5m

Money raised

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Marqo

Marqo is an open-source, multimodal vector search engine that allows users to store and query unstructured data (text, images, code, etc.) with a single API.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.2m

Money raised

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Planplan

Planplan is a company founded in 2023 offering an open source product and ecommerce search engine

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Swiftype

Swiftype is a company building search software for enterprises, websites and applications. It participated in the W12 cohort of Y Combinator.

5

Funding Rounds

$22.2m

Money raised

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Giphy

Giphy is an online database and search engine that allows users to search, share, and discover GIFs.

1

Funding Rounds

$72.0m

Money raised

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Talkwalker

Talkwalker is a social media analytics and monitoring tool.

3

Funding Rounds

$9.5m

Money raised

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Twiggle

Twiggle is using the most advanced technologies in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing to power next generation e-commerce experiences. Twiggle's solutions are the only search technologies built on both human-like understanding of linguistic structure and a deep retail awareness allowing your search engine to mimic how an experienced salesperson would (and should) behave.

4

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

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Syte

Syte is a visual AI Platform for Retail founded in 2015 by Lihi Pinto Fryman, Ofer Fryman, Idan Pinto and Helge Voss.

9

Funding Rounds

$131.4m

Money raised

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Traveloka

Traveloka is an online flight search engine for routes and airlines.

6

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

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Ask.com

Ask.com is a search engine founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener, David Warthen and Fred Davis.

2

Funding Rounds

$25.0m

Money raised

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ROSS Intelligence

ROSS Intelligence is a company offering an artificial intelligent system for legal research.

7

Funding Rounds

$13.1m

Money raised

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Insight Engines

Insight Engines is a digital research company.

1

Funding Rounds

$15.8m

Money raised

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Omgili

Omgili (oh my god I love it) was a vertical search engine that focuses on user-generated content platforms.

1

Funding Rounds

$600.0k

Money raised

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Adthena

Adthena is a company founded in 2012 by Ian O’Rourke.

5

Funding Rounds

$36.5m

Money raised

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Rentable

Developer of a hyper-local apartment platform designed to connect renters and property managers. The company's platform provides localized flat listing services, search aids, map-based searches, and shortlisting tools to browse through apartment listings.

3

Funding Rounds

$30.1m

Money raised

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Octopart

Octopart is an industrial and electrical parts search engine.

2

Funding Rounds

$300.0k

Money raised

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Sinequa

Enterprise search platform designed for large and complex organizations.

3

Funding Rounds

$51.3m

Money raised

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Glean

Glean offers fast data exploration for data teams and more.

4

Funding Rounds

$162.0m

Money raised

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Lyst (fashion company)

Fashion search platform that allows users to browse through thousands of online fashion stores.

1

Funding Rounds

$85.0m

Money raised

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KITE EDGE LTD

Kite Edge provides an SaaS platform designed to analyze written information.

2

Funding Rounds

$9.3m

Money raised

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Diem

Diem is a new social media platform designed inclusively for women & non-binary folks.

4

Funding Rounds

$39.5m

Money raised

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Tellius

Tellius is a Reston, Virginia-based developer of artificial intelligence-based predictive analytics and business intelligence services.

3

Funding Rounds

$23.5m

Money raised

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Gjirafa

Video content and e-commerce platform for the Balkans built on an Albanian language specialized search engine.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.7m

Money raised

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Milo

Milo is a company founded in 2008 by Theodore Dziuba, John Evans and Jack Abraham.

3

Funding Rounds

$22.0m

Money raised

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Mobvoi

Mobvoi is an AI company that developed Chinese voice recognition, natural language processing, and vertical search technology in-house.

3

Funding Rounds

$460.0m

Money raised

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Cinnamon AI

Cinnamon is an AI startup that develops products aimed at reducing the amount of time people spend on mundane tasks. Its Flax Scanner takes lengthy documents and extracts only the most pertinent information, while Lapis Engine is an natural language processing (NLP) based search engine designed to give recommendations for applications such as e-commerce or a recruiting platform, and Scuro Bot is a chatbot which can also process natural languages.

2

Funding Rounds

$25.7m

Money raised

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MachEye

MachEye is a company founded by Ramesh Panuganty.

3

Funding Rounds

$4.6m

Money raised

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HotPads

Provider of map based housing search engine. The company offers rentals, homes for sale, foreclosures, vacation rentals and hotels.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

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Airstack

Airstack is the web3 API platform.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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Botify

Suite of tools helping businesses improve their search engine rankings at every step.

2

Funding Rounds

$75.0m

Money raised

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MyScienceWork

In addition to allowing you to share your research with others, MyScienceWork provides access to over 60 million articles, 25 million of which are open access.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.4m

Money raised

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Qdrant

Qdrant is an open source vector database paltfor for developers founded in 2021.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

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PlaceTell

PlaceTell is a company that provides a map search engine that is made from Artificial Intelligence and made for Augmented Reality.

1

Funding Rounds

$150.0k

Money raised

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Brain Technologies

Brain Technology is a company that defines a technology that employs findings in neuroscience.

6

Funding Rounds

$101.0m

Money raised

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HomeToGo

Marketplace for the world's largest selection of vacation rentals.

2

Funding Rounds

$176.7m

Money raised

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Gravete

Gravete is a company founded in 2016 by Nour De Vos.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

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One Llama Media

One Llama Media is a Champaign, Illinois-based company founded by Nikhil Pandit.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

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Ask Ziggy

Ask Ziggy is a company founded by Shai Leib.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.5m

Money raised

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Cliqz

Cliqz is a web browser founded in 2008 by Jean-Paul Schmetz.

1

Funding Rounds

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Livehive, Inc

Livehive, Inc is a San Jose, California-based company founded in 2011.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.7m

Money raised

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Actacell

Company

3

Funding Rounds

$9.8m

Money raised

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TickX

TickX is a Manchester-based company founded in 2015.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.1m

Money raised

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FoodBoss

FoodBoss is an all in one online food and alcohol delivery search engine that comprises data from food services companies

1

Funding Rounds

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Yebol

Yebol is a technology company.

1

Funding Rounds

$600.0k

Money raised

Yamli logo

Yamli

Yamli is a Cambridge, Cambridgeshire-based company founded in 2007.

1

Funding Rounds

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Command E

A keyboard shortcut to open any document, contact, file or record from the cloud.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.3m

Money raised

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Mojeek

Mojeek is a United Kingdom-based company founded in 2009.

2

Funding Rounds

$71.9k

Money raised

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Clicpiso

Clicpiso is a proptech platform that buys and sells flats, offering a quick, simple and transparent proposal.

1

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

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Neuvoo

Neuvoo is a job search engine available in over 60 countries. It offers a job search website where people can search for types of employment and for particular salaries.

1

Funding Rounds

1

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

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Captify

Captify is a London-based search engine company.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.8m

Money raised

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SearchButton.com

SearchButton.com is a Mountain View, California-based search engine company.

1

Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

Fashion Republic logo

Fashion Republic

Fashion Republic is a Beijing-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

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Danti

Danti is an Atlanta-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.8m

Money raised

1

Funding Rounds

$3.6m

Money raised