You.com is a Palo Alto, CA-based enterprise AI infrastructure company that offers an AI-powered, chat-first search and productivity platform. Led by Richard Socher and Bryan McCann, its assistant integrates real-time web search, multimodal AI capabilities, and customizable solutions for consumers and enterprises. The company processes over 1 billion queries monthly via its API for customers including DuckDuckGo, Windsurf, and Harvey across technology, e-commerce, financial services, media, manufacturing and hospitality. You.com raised $100M in a Series C at a $1.5B valuation, which it plans to use to expand operations and accelerate development efforts. The round was led by Cox Enterprises with participation from existing investors Georgian, Salesforce Ventures and Norwest. Its product and API positioning target both consumer productivity and enterprise deployments. You.com builds an AI search "productivity engine" focused on answering complex, research-style queries that require fetching and evaluating up-to-date documents. The product chains searches and retrievals, returning deep-linked citations that highlight relevant source text to improve traceability. The company relies on external LLMs (including Claude and ChatGPT) and tightly controls prompting to reduce hallucinations and ensure more reliable outputs. It also demonstrated a collaborative “multiplayer” workspace where multiple users can add documents, summarize, and query with shared visibility. Commercially, You.com says subscribers are five times higher than at the start of the year, some enterprise customers use the service millions of times per day, and unit economics for large enterprise deals are positive. CEO Richard Socher says the company is monetizing selectively and is preparing to scale. You.com builds an AI-driven search engine that uses models to understand queries, rank results, and analyze inputs in multiple languages, including programming languages. The company is developing multimodal search so users can add elements beyond text and receive richer, app‑style answers within a chat. Founder Richard Socher says the product can surface interactive apps (for example, a stock app) directly inside conversations rather than inventing information. You.com positions itself as an open, user‑focused alternative to Google, emphasizing apps and reduced advertising. The firm launched in late 2020 and is headquartered in Silicon Valley. The article does not disclose revenue or user metrics; it notes a $25M financing raised last year to advance product development. You.com bills itself as an open search engine that leverages natural language processing (NLP) to understand queries, rank results, and summarize content from across the web. The platform offers extensibility through built-in search apps so users can complete tasks without leaving the results page and can parse queries into different languages including programming languages. The company emphasizes user control and personalization, and it currently offers a “zero trace” incognito mode and an ad-free experience while committing not to sell personal information or run targeted, privacy-invading ads. You.com launched a public beta and says it will use recently raised funds for user growth, product development, and technology to scale the platform. Founded in 2020 by Richard Socher and Bryan McCann, the company has about 30 employees. The team positions You.com as a privacy-forward alternative to incumbent search engines and aims to give users and content creators more agency over first-page search results.

Total raised

$195M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Sep 2025