Andi
Headquarters
San Francisco, CAFounded
2021CEO / Founder
Angela HooverEmployees
1-10Funding
Seed — $2.5MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
6.7/10Website
andisearch.com/
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About 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.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Andi competes with, and how they differ.
The category leader in conversational AI search with the same cited-answer format as Andi, but backed by far larger funding rounds and monetized via a paid Pro tier and API access; Andi stays free with no accounts.
2 products reviewed on TopReviewed
A paid, ad-free search engine ($5-25/month subscriptions) layering AI-assisted answers on a licensed index, monetizing via user subscriptions rather than Andi's free, ad-free consumer model.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Pairs its own independent web index with an AI summarizer (Leo) inside the Brave browser, monetizing through the broader Brave browser/ad-revenue-share business rather than a standalone search app like Andi.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in Andi's history, with sources.
- Milestone
Relocated headquarters from Miami to San Francisco
CEO Angela Hoover said Andi opened offices at 600 California Street to be near Bay Area AI talent and VCs; first reported by the San Francisco Business Times.
therealdeal.com - Launch
General availability launch after stealth beta
Andi opened to the public after a months-long stealth period that drew 50,000 users by word of mouth, positioning itself as a conversational, ad-free alternative to Google and ChatGPT.
martechcube.com - Funding
Seed funding — $2.5M from Y Combinator, Gaingels and others
Andi raised $2.5M including Y Combinator, Gaingels, GoodWater Capital, K20 Fund, Acacia Venture Capital Partners, Fepo Capital and BBQ Capital, plus a small friends-and-family round, to fund AI development and hiring.
techcrunch.com - Founded
Andi founded by Angela Hoover and Jed White
Hoover and White met at the Denver airport and founded Andi to build an AI-powered search assistant that answers questions instead of returning links; the company later joined Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch.
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