INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Searchable.ai wants to solve an old problem around search in the enterprise
The stealthy startup announced a $2 million seed round.Defy Partners led the round with a slew of other participants, including Paul
English, co-founder of Kayak; Wayne Chang, co-founder of Crashlytics; Brian Halligan, co-founder and CEO of HubSpot; Jonathan Kraft,
president and COO of the Kraft Group and the New England Patriots; MIT Prof
Edward Roberts; Eric Dobkin, founder and chairman emeritus of Goldman Sachs Global Equity Capital Markets; and Susquehanna International
Group.The prestigious group of investors saw that Searchable.ai is trying to solve a big problem around findability
Company co-founder Brian Shin says that knowledge workers have been struggling for years trying to find a way to better utilize all of the
part could be particularly valuable because it lets you ask a natural language question and find a specific piece of information within a
document, rather than just the document itself
be a huge boost to knowledge workers who have continually struggled to find a nugget of information they know is out there across the myriad
documents in an organization.Shin is an experienced entrepreneur who has helped launch and sell three companies
He reports he has raised $100 million in venture capital and most recently has worked as a venture capitalist himself, but he saw this
but he and his co-founders decided this was worth it
