AI-Powered Productivity Engine Secures $50M in Latest Investment Round

You.com, a collaborative AI-powered productivity engine, recently secured a substantial $50M in a series B funding round led by Georgian, a prominent growth-stage B2B investor. Notable participants in the funding round included Salesforce Ventures, NVIDIA, Gen Digital, SBVA, DuckDuckGo, and Day One Ventures. This innovative platform offers advanced proprietary AI agents that are recognized for their accuracy through third-party benchmarks. Users can leverage You.com to develop customized AI agents utilizing any AI model to tackle a variety of tasks.

Since its launch in 2021, You.com has amassed millions of active users across various industries, including hedge funds, tech unicorns, and publicly traded companies. With over 1 billion queries answered to date, the platform has demonstrated its efficacy in research and problem-solving. The latest investment has facilitated several updates, including the introduction of a multiplayer AI feature within the Team plan, fostering a collaborative work environment for enhanced productivity.

Through the multiplayer AI feature, teams can collaborate to create, share, and discover Custom Agents, engage in chat threads, upload files without data retention concerns, and more. You.com's product offerings include AI research agents that execute multiple searches from a single prompt, an AI genius agent capable of solving complex problems through conversation, and an AI custom Agent utilizing models from industry leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google.

Margaret Wu, Lead Investor at Georgian, emphasized the time-saving benefits of You.com for extensive market research and synthesis tasks, underscoring the platform's technical excellence and competitive edge in a dynamic market landscape. Co-founded by former Salesforce executives Richard Socher and Bryan McCann, You.com aims to revolutionize online discovery by providing users with more comprehensive and efficient search experiences.

Socher highlighted the platform's mission to enhance productivity for millions of knowledge workers by offering fast, accurate answers, research capabilities, problem-solving tools, and content creation support. As pioneers in the field, Socher and McCann were instrumental in embedding LLMs into the search experience before ChatGPT and introducing real-time access to verifiable information. Their groundbreaking contributions, such as contextualized word vectors and prompt engineering, have revolutionized the search landscape, yielding significant advancements in digital information retrieval.