Keenable Raises $26 Million to Build Web Search Index for AI Agents

Keenable, founded by former Yandex search, AI and cloud executive Andrey Styskin and German AI scientist Matthias Petri, is building web-search infrastructure for AI agents rather than human users. The startup argues that chatbots and autonomous systems need low-latency access to source documents at web scale to ground answers and complete tasks. The opportunity has widened as Google and Microsoft restrict existing search APIs and favor more tightly bundled services.

Keenable emerged from stealth on Aug. 25, 2026, with a $26 million seed round led by Accel, with participation from Conviction Partners and angel investors. The company says its index spans more than 100 billion documents and its API is already used in production by several AI laboratories and inference providers for training and runtime retrieval. Keenable has also partnered with voice-AI company Gradium for live information access and plans to double its 15-person engineering team by year-end.