Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents
Search engines were built and optimized for people, who can’t spare the time or attention required to scan entire webpages. But as people increasingly use AI chatbots to search the web and do tasks, there’s a line of thinking that the Internet’s current infrastructure needs to be updated to cater to AI instead, as these bots can read and process much larger portions of information.
Andrey Styskin, who previously led Russian search giant Yandex’s search, AI and cloud division, and German AI scientist Matthias Petri are working to solve that problem with their new startup, Keenable. The company recently came out of stealth $26 million in seed funding. Accel led the funding round, which also saw participation from Conviction Partners and some business angels.
From Styskin’s perspective, AI chatbots tend to do much better if they can ground their responseswith source documents. “This actually creates a new flywheel...
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