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Liner raises $36.1M to take its evidence-first AI search to enterprise customers

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Liner has raised $36.1M in Series C funding led by LB Investment, bringing total capital to $64.3M. The South Korean AI search startup has 14M registered users across 220 countries and scored 95.3 on OpenAI’s SimpleQA benchmark. Its enterprise push includes integration into HUMAIN ONE, the Saudi government-backed AI platform. Liner focuses on the citation layer between the user’s question and the model’s answer rather than building new foundation models.

Liner, a South Korean AI search startup, has raised $36.1 million in Series C funding as it seeks to turn its consumer research platform used by millions into an enterprise AI business.

LB Investment led the Series C round, joined by returning investors InterVest, Atinum Investment and CJ Investment. New funding participants included Korea Development Bank, KB Securities, Daishin Securities, STIC Ventures and Helios Private Equity. With this financing round, Liner has raised roughly $64.3 million in total...

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