Keenable has emerged from stealth with $26 million in seed funding, a round that closed on November 5, 2025, to develop web-search infrastructure designed for AI systems rather than human users. Accel led the financing, which included Conviction Partners, Brightwing Capital, ScOp Venture Capital and angel investors from Google and Amazon. Co-founded by former Yandex search, AI and cloud executive Andrey Styskin and German AI scientist Matthias Petri, Keenable says it has built an independent index of more than 100 billion documents. Its Web Search API and AI-focused WebQueryLanguage are now available, with access offered free through the end of September. The platform supports natural-language searches, cleaned content fetching and point-in-time historical queries, with pricing ranging from free trial tiers to $1 per 1,000 requests for frontier-scale users. The company targets high-frequency, low-latency workloads such as lead enrichment, market mapping and pricing monitoring, and says its results outperform peers including Tavily, Exa and Perplexity for relevance and machine-ready output. Keenable says AI labs are already using the service in production, although customers have not been named, and it has partnered with voice AI company Gradium for live information retrieval. The startup is also developing WebQueryLanguage to combine information from multiple sources when no single webpage contains a complete answer. With 15 engineering staff across the U.S. and Europe, Keenable plans to double headcount by the end of the year. It competes with Brave and Exa as Google and other major technology companies redesign search and reconsider access to traditional search APIs.