Andi

Andi is an AI-powered search engine founded in 2021 by Angela Hoover (CEO) and Jed White (CTO), headquartered in San Francisco. The company participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch and is designed to return direct, cited answers to search queries rather than ranked lists of links.

Andi combines large language models with live web search to generate summarized, sourced responses to natural language queries. The service is free, ad-free, and privacy-focused, not collecting personally identifiable information or logging user searches. In September 2024, Andi achieved the top score for factual accuracy in the SearchBench AI benchmark, outperforming Google Gemini, ChatGPT, and Perplexity.

Andi raised $2.5 million in seed funding from investors including Y Combinator, Gaingels, GoodWater Capital, K20 Fund, Acacia Venture Capital Partners, Fepo Capital, and BBQ Capital, along with a family and friends round. The company operates with a team of under ten people.