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You.com

Application

AI search engine whose ARI research agent scans hundreds of sources at once to produce a cited research report, alongside a conversational search assistant and web/answer APIs.

Total funding$195M

Valuation$1.5B

Employees—

Founded2020

HeadquartersPalo Alto, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• You.com ARI API service

  AI research agent and search API that scans hundreds of sources simultaneously to produce a cited research report, alongside web search and answer APIs for building search into other products.

• You.com Web Search API API service Sold on its own

  Real-time web search results returned as structured data for an AI application to consume, priced per call rather than bundled into a chat subscription.

• You.com Answer API API service Sold on its own

  Returns a synthesized, citation-backed natural-language answer grounded in real-time web results in a single call.

• You.com Contents API API service Sold on its own

  Extracts clean HTML or Markdown content from a supplied list of up to 10 URLs on demand, for LLM consumption.

• You.com Finance Research API API service Sold on its own

  Researches financial questions using a specialized financial-data index.

• You.com Research API API service Sold on its own

  Runs multi-step research across sources with a configurable effort level (lite through frontier) and structured JSON output.

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Sources

Total funding

Wikipedia · 31 Aug 2026

Article lists an initial $20M round, a $25M Series A (July 2022, led by Radical Ventures), a $50M Series B (September 2024, led by Georgian) and a $100M Series C (September 2025, led by Cox Enterprises) -- $20M+$25M+$50M+$100M = $195M.

Valuation

Wikipedia · 31 Aug 2026

"In September 2025, You.com raised $100 million in Series C funding led by Cox Enterprises at a $1.5 billion valuation, achieving unicorn status."

Founded

Wikipedia · 31 Aug 2026

Infobox gives founded 2020.

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