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Vectara
Large language model search-as-a-service
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- SaaS
- Ventura, Palo Alto, CA
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Company mission
Vectara’s mission is to help the world find meaning through search.
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135% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
With AI poised to revolutionise all sorts of business processes and day-to-day tasks, Vectara delivers neural search-as-a-service technology to compete with keyword-based searching.
The company, which emerged from stealth in 2022, leverages large language models (a type of AI algorithm) to determine the intent behind queries, with the aim to bring meaning to search - and hence generate more relevant results. The platform can be quickly integrated to site and app searches, enhancing product discovery, user navigation, and more.
With substantial seed funding at its back, Vectara has launched both a free-to-use "Growth" product, and paid "Scale" version that enables additional features such as cross language search. As AI cements itself as the "future of search", the company should be afforded plenty of opportunity to grow alongside it, and should be one to watch as it develops in the coming years.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Equity Grants
- Medical, Dental, & Vision - 100% paid medical, dental and vision beginning on your first day!
- Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) and a health savings account (HSA)
- Paid Time Off - plus paid sick time, holidays, and company rest days
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Fun - We want this to be a fun place to work and we think creatively about how to achieve that
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2024
$25m
SERIES A
May 2023
$28.5m
SEED
Total funding: $53.5m
Leadership
Amr Awadallah
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former VP of Developer Relations (Google Cloud) at Google. Previously co-founded Cloudera, where they were CTO.
Amin Ahmad
(Co-Founder)Has previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer for Google, and an Independent Consultant at a number of firms including IBM.