Voyage AI
Headquarters
Palo Alto, CAFounded
2023CEO / Founder
Tengyu MaEmployees
11-50Funding
AcquiredProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
8.1/10Website
www.voyageai.com
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About Voyage AI
Voyage AI was founded in 2023 by Tengyu Ma, a Stanford computer science professor, to build state-of-the-art embedding and reranking models specialized for retrieval-augmented generation use cases. The company released a series of voyage-* embedding models (voyage-3, voyage-large-2, voyage-code-2, voyage-finance-2, voyage-law-2, voyage-multimodal) and reranking models targeting domain-specific RAG workloads.
MongoDB acquired Voyage AI in February 2025 for approximately $220 million to integrate native embedding generation and reranking into MongoDB Atlas vector search. Voyage AI continues to offer its models as a standalone API.
Pre-acquisition, Voyage AI was headquartered in Palo Alto, California and raised approximately $20 million in seed and Series A rounds from CRV, Wing Venture Capital, and others.
Financials
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Products by Voyage AI
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Competitive Landscape
Who Voyage AI competes with, and how they differ.
Cohere ships its own Embed and Rerank model lines via API, competing directly in both embeddings and reranking; Voyage's own January 2025 benchmarks reported voyage-3-large beating Cohere-v3-English by ~20.7% and rerank-1 beating Cohere's rerank-english-v3/rerank-multilingual-v3.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
OpenAI's text-embedding-3 models are the default embeddings choice for developers already on the OpenAI API; Voyage's January 2025 benchmarks claimed voyage-3-large outperforms OpenAI-v3-large by ~9.7% on retrieval tasks across 100 datasets.
2 products reviewed on TopReviewed
Jina AI ships open-weight embedding models (jina-embeddings-v5, Apache-2.0/CC-BY-NC licensed) deployable outside a hosted API, competing with Voyage on the self-hostable segment Voyage's proprietary models don't serve.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in Voyage AI's history, with sources.
- Acquisition
Acquired by MongoDB in ~$220M deal
MongoDB announced its acquisition of Voyage AI to integrate embedding and reranking models directly into MongoDB Atlas; deal terms were not disclosed by either company but Bloomberg reported a price of approximately $220 million. Voyage models remain available via voyageai.com and AWS/Azure marketplaces.
blog.voyageai.com - Launch
voyage-3-large embedding model launched
Voyage AI released voyage-3-large, a general-purpose embedding model supporting Matryoshka dimensionality (2048/1024/512/256) and quantization; the company reported it outperforming OpenAI-v3-large and Cohere-v3-English by 9.74% and 20.71% respectively across 100 evaluation datasets.
blog.voyageai.com - Funding
Series A — $20M led by CRV, total raised to $28M
Voyage AI raised a $20M Series A led by CRV with participation from Wing VC, Conviction, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks Ventures, Pear VC, Tectonic Ventures, Mayfield Fund and Fusion Fund, bringing total funding to $28M.
blog.voyageai.com - Launch
rerank-1 reranking model launched
Voyage AI launched rerank-1, a general-purpose and multilingual reranker supporting 27 languages and an 8k context window, reported to outperform bge-reranker-v2-m3 and Cohere's rerank-english-v3/rerank-multilingual-v3.
blog.voyageai.com - Launch
Initial embedding model (voyage-01) launched
Voyage AI launched its first embedding model and API, voyage-01, built on research from Stanford AI Lab and MIT NLP, claiming over 5 points of benchmark improvement over OpenAI text-embedding models for retrieval-augmented generation.
blog.voyageai.com - Founded
Voyage AI founded by Stanford professor Tengyu Ma
Voyage AI was founded in 2023 by Tengyu Ma, a Stanford University assistant professor, to build embedding and reranking models for retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search.
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