The Intelligent Search Company (TISC) has emerged from stealth with a $2.1 million pre-seed round to expand its AI platform, designed to give decision-makers and AI agents rapid access to mission-critical insights in environments where seconds matter. The funding was co-led by OVO Fund and n49p with participation from Panache Ventures. The company’s technology is built to extract the most relevant context from fragmented, fast-changing data streams, enabling real-time decisions across industries such as sports, emergency response, and defense.
Founded in May 2024 by CEO Arpan Bhattacharya and COO Mahbod (Moe) Sabbaghi, the company has built its core technology, hired its founding machine learning researcher, and begun early deployments with professional and collegiate sports organizations. TISC’s system has already supported the national basketball team of a Caribbean nation, delivered insights during NCAA Division I basketball games, and is being used by the Women’s Premier Basketball Association (WPBA). The company is now expanding pilot programs and pursuing new partnerships with organizations in adjacent, high-complexity, high-pressure markets.
TISC’s approach departs from traditional systems that rely on slow, query-driven search across disconnected data sources. Instead, its world model architecture is designed to learn which information is worth retrieving, when to retrieve it, and how to fuse it, allowing it to deliver context instantaneously. By processing multimodal inputs such as text, video, and sensor data, TISC reduces redundant follow-up queries and accelerates the path to a confident decision.
The use cases span multiple verticals, including real-time play-calling and in-game analysis in sports, emergency response routing, and command decision support for defense operations. The company positions its platform as the retrieval layer that provides human teams and AI agents with the domain fluency required for rapid action.
The WPBA is preparing to use TISC’s platform as a cornerstone of its tech-forward competitive strategy. Beginning in 2026, the league plans to introduce an AI assistant coach powered by TISC, capable of answering natural language questions with instant access to clips, scouting insights, and live trends. The league will also centralize film and scouting materials for WNBA scouts, replacing manual workflows with unified search.
With infrastructure in place to support new partners, TISC is focused on expanding its presence in professional and collegiate sports while cultivating relationships in emergency services, defense, and other data-intensive markets. The company is offering private demos to organizations interested in evaluating its technology.
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“TISC exists because the most important, time-constrained decisions that impact human lives are still being made on hunches or rigid playbooks even though the data to guide those calls already exists. In real time, our technology finds the right needles in every kind of data haystack and puts them in front of people or makes them accessible to AI agents using our API. Think of it as AI with intuition. It understands intent, predicts deception, and prescribes counter moves, from play calling in sports to military command and control.”
Arpan Bhattacharya, CEO, The Intelligent Search Company (TISC)
“Coaches, medics, and commanders are swimming in data while the clock is running. Software should feel fast and fluent in the domain, not like a slow, generic tool that forces people to think in keywords. We are building the retrieval layer that lets humans and AI act with speed and confidence.”
Mahbod (Moe) Sabbaghi, COO, The Intelligent Search Company (TISC)
“While I had felt that search was a solved problem, the team at TISC convinced me otherwise. From TISC’s perspective, search today forces users to adapt their language and mental models to the designer of the system, leaving the long tail of “intent” unexplored and underutilized. This is a critical market inefficiency that TISC is addressing to bring the rest of the world closer to the products, experiences, and outcomes they are looking for.”
Gianfranco Filice, Partner, OVO Fund
“Arpan and Moe are executing on a compelling vision that bridges cutting-edge research with practical deployment. The team has category-defining ambition, and technology that will enable any human or AI to find exactly what it’s looking for from any source or data stream, no matter how fragmented or complex that data is or how abstract the search query is.”
Alex Norman, Managing Partner, n49p
“The future of sports lies at the intersection of athletic performance and technology. What TISC is building directly supports that vision, helping us elevate the WPBA ecosystem and empower our athletes with the tools, data, and development resources to reach elite levels of performance, whether in the WNBA or on international stages.”
“We aim to be a premier developmental league for top female athletes and believe the future of women’s sports is AI-powered. TISC points to where the game is headed and how coaches and leagues will compete.”
Faatimah A., CEO and Founder, Women’s Premier Basketball Association (WPBA)
