You.com
You.com is an AI search and infrastructure company founded by Richard SocherRichard SocherRichard Socher is an AI researcher, entrepreneur and investor. He is co-founder and CEO of Recursive, founder and CEO of You.com, and co-founder and managing partner of AIX Ventures. A Stanford computer science PhD, he contributed to the Stanford Sentiment Treebank and GloVe, founded MetaMind, and served as chief scientist at Salesforce.Open the full entry and Bryan McCannBryan McCannBryan McCann is an AI researcher, entrepreneur and philosopher, and a You.com co-founder, director and adviser. He previously served as its CTO and as a research lead at Salesforce Research.Open the full entry. It provides search, content extraction and research tools connecting AI models and agents with web information.
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Key facts
2020Founding
Richard Socher and Bryan McCann founded You.com in 2020 after Socher left SalesforceSalesforceSalesforce is a U.S. enterprise software company headquartered in San Francisco, providing cloud applications, data platforms and AI agent tools centered on customer relationship management (CRM).Open the full entry, applying their experience in language-model research to web search.[1]
November 2021Public beta
You.com opened its public beta on November 9, 2021, announcing $20 million in funding.[2]
2022Series A and customizable search
You.com raised $25 million in July 2022.[3]
In July 2022, the company completed a Series A led by Radical VenturesRadical VenturesRadical Ventures is an artificial intelligence-focused venture capital firm founded by Jordan Jacobs and Tomi Poutanen shortly after the 2017 launch of the Vector Institute in Toronto. It invests from incubation and seed through growth and pre-IPO stages, and its portfolio includes companies such as Cohere, Waabi, and World Labs. In 2026, it co-led the investment in Discovery Loop, founded by Jeff Dean and others, and completed the first close of its late-stage Radical Breakouts Fund.Open the full entry. The investor described a customizable search experience combining control over sources with applications for writing and coding.[4]
September 2024Series B and AI work tools
On September 4, 2024, You.com announced a $50 million Series B led by Georgian, advancing AI research assistance, custom agents and team features for knowledge work.[5]
September 2025Series C and enterprise infrastructure
On September 3, 2025, it announced a $100 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by Cox EnterprisesCox EnterprisesCox Enterprises is an American family-owned business group headquartered in Atlanta.Open the full entry with Georgian, Salesforce VenturesSalesforce VenturesSalesforce Ventures is Salesforce’s corporate venture capital arm. Active since 2009, it backs companies from seed through growth across enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, data, security and AI. Salesforce supplies all of its capital.Open the full entry and Norwest participating. It emphasized infrastructure connecting enterprises and AI agents with live web content.[6]
March 2026Technology leadership transition
Saahil JainSaahil JainSaahil Jain is You.com’s CTO. He joined as a founding engineer in 2020 and subsequently led engineering and AI teams, after researching NLP and medical machine learning at Stanford.Open the full entry became CTO on March 17, 2026. Bryan McCann became an adviser and remained a director, while Richard Socher continued as CEO.[7]
Products: Search and AI infrastructure
You.com offers search, web-content extraction and research services for AI applications, with APIs connecting web information to models and agents. Its website also retains a user-facing chat interface.[8]
Public access: Website and developer resources
Its website is https://you.com/ (opens in a new window) and its public open-source organization is https://github.com/youdotcom-oss (opens in a new window).[8]
Sources
- How Richard Socher, Inventor of Prompt Engineering, Built a $1.5B AI Search Company (opens in a new window)
- You.com lands $20M to reimagine the search engine (opens in a new window)
- You.com raises $25 million to challenge Google’s search dominance (opens in a new window)
- Building a Better Search Engine (opens in a new window)
- You.com raises $50M Series B (opens in a new window)
- You.com Raises $100M Series C at a $1.5 Billion Valuation to Build the Infrastructure for the Agentic Era (opens in a new window)
- Welcoming Saahil Jain as the Next You.com CTO (opens in a new window)
- You.com (opens in a new window)