You.com

You.com is an AI-powered search engine and API platform founded in 2021 by Richard Socher and Bryan McCann, both former Salesforce AI researchers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and operates both a consumer-facing search product and a suite of developer-facing APIs.

The company's primary consumer product is an AI search engine that generates summarized answers alongside traditional web results, with support for multimodal queries and AI chat assistants. On the developer side, You.com offers web search APIs — including its Smart, News, and RAG APIs — used by AI application builders to ground large language model outputs in real-time web data. The platform competes with Bing Search API and Google Custom Search in the developer API market.

You.com raised a $25 million Series A round in 2022 and subsequently closed a $50 million Series B in 2023, bringing total disclosed funding to approximately $165 million across multiple rounds including earlier seed financing. The company has positioned its API business as a primary revenue driver, targeting AI developers and enterprises building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications.