You.com announced it has closed a $100 million Series C funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by Cox Enterprises with continued support from Georgian, Salesforce Ventures, and Norwest. David Yang of Socium Ventures has also joined the board as part of this investment. The financing will accelerate the development of the company’s AI infrastructure platform, explicitly designed for autonomous agents.
Traditional search services were built for humans clicking on links, not for AI agents that require contextual information to make decisions and take actions. You.com’s platform fills this gap by integrating private company data and live public web data, selecting the optimal AI model for each task, and delivering accurate, trusted results at enterprise scale.
Since December 2022, You.com has been connecting large language models to live web data with verifiable citations, reducing hallucinations and building reliable AI. Customer demand for this capability led You.com to launch APIs and evolve into a full-fledged AI infrastructure provider.
This platform offers enterprise-grade privacy and security with zero data retention, model flexibility that ensures organizations are never locked in, and comprehensive data access that combines internal and external sources. These features help build trust at scale and meet the rigorous requirements of modern businesses.
You.com now processes over one billion queries each month through its API, powering applications for companies such as DuckDuckGo, Windsurf, and Harvey across industries like e-commerce, finance, media, and manufacturing. Internal benchmarks indicate that the platform outperforms major alternatives in both accuracy and response speed, while remaining cost-effective.
Developers can leverage You.com’s composable infrastructure for web and news search, deep research that synthesizes hundreds of sources, image search, private retrieval-augmented generation systems, and custom agent capabilities. Enterprises can partner with You.com to design end-to-end AI applications tailored to their unique workflows, drawing on experience building solutions for major news, finance, retail, and healthcare organizations.
