You.com Secures $100 mn to Build ‘Highways of the Agentic Era’ for AI Agents

AI-powered search company You.com has raised $100 million in Series C funding at a $1.5 billion valuation. The round was led by Cox Enterprises, with participation from existing investors including Georgian, Salesforce Ventures, and Norwest. David Yang from Socium Ventures, Cox Enterprises’ venture arm, also joins the company’s board.

Founded by former Salesforce AI scientist Richard Socher, You.com initially entered the market with a consumer-facing search engine that let users browse results both vertically and horizontally, with a dedicated section for open-source code files.

Last year, the company secured $50 million in funding and shifted its focus to enterprises. Today, its portfolio includes APIs that enable businesses to build AI-powered applications.

Offering zero data retention, model flexibility, and integration of private and public data, You.com claims its APIs outperform Bing and Google’s search APIs in speed, accuracy, and cost.

Framing its mission as building the “highways of the agentic era,” You.com provides APIs and end-to-end AI solutions designed to deliver trusted, accurate, and contextual results.

Unlike traditional search, which was built for humans to click links, You.com’s infrastructure is tailored for AI agents that require deeper reasoning powered by both private company data and public web sources.

"Soon there will be more AI agents using the web than humans, but today's search wasn't built for this. Agents need deep, contextual information from both public web and internal private data to make real decisions.Our web search API delivers the most up-to-date, accurate, and fastest search results for LLMs and agents," Socher said.

The company began addressing LLM limitations in late 2022 by connecting models to live web data with verifiable citations. This shift reduced hallucinations and laid the foundation for You.com’s APIs, which now process over one billion monthly queries for clients including DuckDuckGo, Windsurf, and Harvey across industries such as finance, e-commerce, media, and healthcare.