Funding

AI Startup Keenable Raises $26M in Seed Funding Round

Aug 26, 2026 | By Devin Jacobs

SUMMARY

Keenable raised $26M in Seed funding.
The funding will support AI search technology and team growth.
Keenable builds web search infrastructure for AI systems.

Keenable, a San Francisco, CA-based independent web search infrastructure for AI, has raised $26 million in a seed funding round led by Accel.

The round also saw participation from Conviction and angels from Amazon, ClickHouse, Databricks, Google, Snowflake and SpaceXAI.

The company plans to use the capital to expand its engineering team, grow its independent web index and crawling infrastructure, and further develop the retrieval systems behind its Web Query Language.

Funding Snapshot

Metric	Details
Fundraise Amount	$26 million
Funding Stage	Seed
Valuation	Not disclosed
Company	Keenable
Sector	AI Infrastructure / Web Search
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, USA
Founded	2025
Lead Investor	Accel
Web Index	100B+ documents

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About Keenable

Founded in 2025 by Andrey Styskin and Matthias Petri, Keenable is developing search and knowledge-access infrastructure specifically for large-scale AI applications.

Instead of relying mainly on information stored during model training, Keenable aims to help AI systems access fresh, live information from across the web.

The company's independent search index contains more than 100 billion documents, providing the foundation for its AI-focused retrieval infrastructure.

Core offerings include:

Independent web search infrastructure
Web-scale crawling
AI retrieval systems
Web Query Language
Live web information access
Search infrastructure for AI labs

Core Technologies / Products / Services

Capability/Product	Application/Use Case
Independent Web Index	Provides AI systems with access to large-scale web information
Web Crawling Infrastructure	Continuously collects fresh web content
Web Query Language	Enables AI systems to retrieve relevant information
AI Retrieval Systems	Connects models with external knowledge

Leadership Comments

“Today’s leading AI models are excellent summarisation machines. They can answer almost any question, but ask them about a subject you know deeply, and you’ll quickly find their limits. The next frontier, that will take average answers to outstanding ones, will come from giving AI dramatically better access to the world’s knowledge, said Andrey Styskin, Co-Founder and CEO of Keenable.

“Search is becoming foundational infrastructure for the next generation of AI, but today’s systems were never designed for the way models access and use information, said Zhenya Loginov, Partner at Accel.