Keenable Emerges from Stealth with $26M Seed Round to Power AI Search

A startup called Keenable has emerged from stealth mode with $26 million in seed funding to build search infrastructure for AI agents. The company claims its independent web search index, spanning over 100 billion documents, is optimized for low-latency and high-frequency queries that AI agents need.

Keenable's approach focuses on delivering model-ready inputs with minimal delay through APIs that support straightforward language searches and cleaned content fetching. Pricing starts at free trial tiers and scales to $1 per 1,000 API requests for 'frontier-scale' users.

The team behind Keenable includes CEO Andrey Styskin, who previously ran Yandex's search division, and Chief Scientist Matthias Petri, who comes from Amazon AGI. The company claims its quality performance already surpasses peers like Tavily, Exa, and Perplexity in terms of delivering relevant results optimized for machine consumption.