50 Best Search Engine Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent search engine companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 2,602 companies tracked on Fsome.

2,602
Total Companies
$86.2B
Total Funding
$33.1M
Avg Funding
San Francisco
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
Perplexity
Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine designed to provide accurate, real-tim…
San Francisco 251 - 500 $1.5B Secondary Market 2026-04-01
2
Glean
Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data …
Palo Alto $768.2M Series F 2025-06-10
3
OpenEvidence
OpenEvidence is a medical AI company that builds a search engine to support clin…
Cambridge 11 - 50 $767.0M Series D 2026-01-21
4
Phinge
Phinge® Creating Netverse®, Patented App-less, Integrated Technologies & Verifed…
Incline Village 1 - 10 $2.1M Convertible Note 2026-04-17
5
Exa
Exa is a software development company that offers an AI-centered search engine t…
San Francisco 51 - 100 $107.0M Series B 2025-09-03
6
Coveo
Coveo is an AI-search and generative experience platform for advanced search, pe…
Quebec 501 - 1K $357.8M Post Ipo Equity 2025-07-10
7
You.com
You.com is a personalized AI search engine that delivers customized recommendati…
Palo Alto 51 - 100 $195.0M Series C 2025-09-03
8
Siren
Siren offers an Investigative Intelligence Platform that facilitates search, bus…
Galway 51 - 100 $27.6M Corporate Round 2025-12-02
9
SeatGeek
SeatGeek operates a mobile-focused ticket platform and search engine that lets f…
New York 501 - 1K $400.1M Series E 2022-08-31
10
Constructor
Constructor is an AI-enabled product search and discovery platform that provides…
San Francisco 101 - 250 $86.1M Series B 2024-06-17
11
MainFunc
MainFunc is an AI company delivering autonomous automation for SMEs and is the m…
Palo Alto 11 - 50 $460.0M Series B 2026-01-29
12
DuckDuckGo
Independent online protection company. Get our browser with protections built-in…
Paoli 251 - 500 $182.4M Seed 2023-04-03
13
Google
Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, …
Mountain View c 10001 max $26.1M Series Unknown 1999-06-07
14
Naver
Naver operates as a search engine and e-commerce platform providing fintech, dig…
Seongnam 1K - 5K $438.4M Post Ipo Debt 2026-04-15
15
Baidu
Baidu is a search engine that enables individuals to obtain information and find…
Beijing c 10001 max $2.6B Post Ipo Equity 2025-12-08
16
Tabnine
Tabnine is an AI coding assistant that accelerates and simplifies the software d…
Tel Aviv 51 - 100 $57.0M Series B 2023-11-08
17
Veera
Veera is India's first mobile-focused browser that aims to bring users a faster …
Mumbai 11 - 50 $10.0M Seed 2026-01-16
18
Malt
Malt is a curated local marketplace that connects the best freelancers and custo…
Paris 101 - 250 $195.3M Series D 2022-07-31
19
Weaviate
Weaviate powers semantic search, RAG, and intelligent agents in one AI-native ve…
Amsterdam 51 - 100 $67.7M Series B 2023-04-20
20
Lucidworks
Lucidworks connects experiences throughout the entire user journey to meet custo…
San Francisco 101 - 250 $209.0M Series F 2019-08-12
21
Algolia
Algolia is the Search-as-a-Service platform that enables companies to deliver fa…
Palo Alto 1K - 5K $334.2M Series D 2021-07-28
22
Omio
Omio offers a multi-mode search tool that compares and combines rail, air, bus, …
Berlin 251 - 500 $596.0M Debt Financing 2024-12-02
23
Truecaller
Truecaller is a mobile app that lets you see who's calling and block unwanted ca…
Stockholm 251 - 500 $101.2M Secondary Market 2021-04-28
24
Inkeep
AI Agents for customer operations
San Francisco 11 - 50 $13.0M Seed 2025-09-05
25
The Zebra
The Zebra is an online insurance comparison platform providing real-time rates a…
Austin 251 - 500 $258.6M Series Unknown 2024-08-06
26
AlphaSense
AlphaSense is a platform harnessing AI to deliver insights, helping professional…
New York 1K - 5K $1.4B Series F 2024-06-11
27
Tavily
Tavily is a search engine for LLMs and RAG that connects AI agents to the real-t…
New York 11 - 50 $25.0M Series A 2025-08-06
28
Apartment List
Apartment List is a smart, simple and seamless renting platform that’s dedicated…
San Francisco 251 - 500 $169.0M Series D 2020-12-21
29
Brave
Brave Software focuses on increasing browsing speed and safety for users, while …
San Francisco 101 - 250 $42.2M Series B 2022-04-01
30
Clikalia
Clikalia is a proptech platform that buys and sells flats, offering a quick, sim…
Las Rozas De Madrid 51 - 100 $1.2B Debt Financing 2025-04-08
31
Fintool
Fintool is a AI platform that offers a financial copilot tool for institutional …
San Francisco 1 - 10 $7.2M Series Unknown 2026-01-06
32
Onton
Onton is an e-commerce search engine that uses knowledge graphs and language mod…
San Francisco 1 - 10 $9.3M Seed 2025-11-26
33
Vespa.ai
Vespa.ai is the fastest, most resilient search and retrieval system on the plane…
Trondheim 51 - 100 $31.0M Series A 2023-11-01
34
Holidu
Holidu is a travel technology company focused on the search and booking of vacat…
Munich 501 - 1K $252.3M Series Unknown 2025-06-04
35
Wego
Wego is an online travel marketplace that enables travelers to find, compare, an…
Singapore 251 - 500 $66.0M Series C 2017-10-15
36
LotLinx
LotLinx’ is a SaaS provider of Digital Retailing and Marketing technologies and …
Chicago 101 - 250 $9.0M Series Unknown 2016-07-25
37
Diem
Diem is building a social search engine, inspired by the way women have exchange…
New York 11 - 50 $4.5M Seed 2024-06-12
38
AthenaHQ
AthenaHQ is the one-stop-shop for marketers on everything AI Search.
San Francisco 1 - 10 $2.7M Seed 2025-03-15
39
Grata
Grata is a business-to-business search engine for finding and targeting private …
New York 51 - 100 $34.5M Series A 2022-02-22
40
Jobright
Jobright is an AI-native job platform providing a career agent that finds, custo…
Santa Clara 1 - 10 $7.7M Seed 2025-06-24
41
Consensus
Consensus is a search engine that uses AI to find answers in scientific research…
San Francisco 1 - 10 $15.7M Series A 2024-07-23
42
Adthena
Adthena is a competitive intelligence solution for search marketers.
London 101 - 250 $36.6M Debt Financing 2022-02-10
43
Neural Command
Neural Command helps companies surface in AI answers and search results across s…
Santa Monica 11 - 50 $2.5M Pre Seed 2025-02-03
44
Rechat
Rechat’s software offers brokers the ability to search data from the MLS system,…
Dallas 51 - 100 $2.0M Series A 2019-06-18
45
Skyword
The Skyword Platform makes it easy to produce, optimize, and promote content at …
Boston 101 - 250 $71.5M Private Equity 2021-01-19
46
Atolio
The only AI-powered enterprise search engine that keeps your data in your cloud.
Denver 11 - 50 $24.0M Series A 2025-09-08
47
TourRadar
TourRadar is the world's leading Organized Adventure company
Vienna 101 - 250 $66.5M Series C 2018-06-26
48
VectorShift
VectorShift Builds, designs, prototypes, and deploys custom generative AI workfl…
San Francisco 1 - 10 $3.0M Seed 2024-02-21
49
Bragg Gaming Group
Bragg Gaming Group is a technology provider of semantic search, machine learning…
Concord 501 - 1K $30.8M Post Ipo Debt 2025-09-12
50
Linkup
Linkup is an AI search engine and web integration platform that enables LLMs and…
Paris 11 - 50 $13.2M Seed 2026-02-02