GoKawiilKeenable raises $26M to build a web search index built for AI agents
Startup Keenable, founded by former Yandex search executive Andrey Styskin and AI scientist Matthias Petri, has emerged from stealth with $26 million in seed funding led by Accel, with participation from Conviction Partners and angel investors. The company has built a search index spanning over 100 billion documents designed specifically for AI systems rather than human users, and its API is already being used by AI labs and inference providers for training and live retrieval, including a new partnership with voice AI company Gradium.
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Most existing search infrastructure was optimized for human attention spans and browsing habits, but AI agents can process far more data and need different retrieval mechanisms to ground their answers in real sources. Keenable's bet is that as chatbots and agents become primary consumers of web content, a new layer of AI-native search infrastructure will be needed alongside traditional search engines like Google.
- Keenable raised $26M in seed funding led by Accel to build AI-focused web search.
- Its index covers over 100 billion documents and is already used by AI labs in production.
- The startup partnered with voice AI company Gradium for live information retrieval.
Source: techcrunch.com — Anna Heim, 2026-08-25
Published there as: “Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents”
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