Our next chapter: The AI Productivity Engine
You.com has raised a $50M Series B led by Georgian, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, NVIDIA, Gen Digital, SBVA (formerly Softbank Ventures Asia), DuckDuckGo, Day One Ventures, and others, bringing our total funding to $99 million.
We've made incredible strides in the decade-plus since my early days in deep learning and AI research. Collectively, we're living through the most significant technological revolution in human history. And with You.com, you can be part of it and future-proof your business.
This is just the beginning.
Productivity in the Age of AI
The age of AI requires new ways of thinking and learning, and with that comes a new vocabulary. You.com is not a search engine focused on links — we're a productivity engine focused on helping knowledge workers accomplish more.
What does that mean? You.com doesn't just find information — our AI Agents conduct research, solve problems, write and run code, create content, and more. This capability is transforming workflows across industries.
"In our field, these extra moments with patients can be the difference between recovery and relapse, between life and death. You.com has enabled us to focus on what truly matters: healing lives."
— Donald Prince, VP of Marketing, Guardian Recovery
Guardian Recovery is a great example. By integrating You.com into their substance use disorder treatment practice, they’re able to reclaim 15 minutes per case from paperwork and spend more time on patient care.
"Integrating You.com's AI into our substance use disorder treatment has revolutionized our workflow. By streamlining documentation and administrative tasks, we've significantly increased time for direct client care. In our field, these extra moments with patients can be the difference between recovery and relapse, between life and death. You.com has enabled us to focus on what truly matters: healing lives,” said Donald Prince, VP of Marketing at Guardian Recovery.
Another great example is in biomedical research, particularly in genetic sequencing. Elucidata, a biomedical data analysis company, highlights the challenges of managing vast amounts of sequencing data and how You.com can be part of the solution.
"The volume of Sequencing data alone will exceed that of Twitter and YouTube combined. Even if we keep the value of human sequencing data vs a tweet aside, there are unique challenges associated with human genome data concerning its acquisition, storage, analysis, and distribution. These challenges make it very hard for scientists to leverage the data. In the best-case scenario, a typical pharma scientist would spend hours and days trying to retrieve information from sequencing data. Very valuable scientific questions are often not asked because the data is unstructured,” explained Abhishek Jha, Elucidata CEO.
Jha added: "You.com and Elucidata are unveiling a game-changing LLM solution designed specifically for biomedical researchers. The new solution promises to revolutionize how researchers navigate the vast ocean of sequencing data alongside publications and other modalities of data. We imagine the future where this data will be a few keystrokes away. This will enable scientists to bring better therapies for patients."
Multiplayer AI: The You.com Team plan
You.com is a step function for productivity. Millions of knowledge workers already use and love it. Now, we're scaling to their teams and organizations.
"The You.com Team platform has empowered us to embrace AI as a transformative tool, ensuring we remain at the forefront of innovation in our industry."
— Paul Heard, Mimecast CIO
Twenty-five years ago, knowing "how to Google" gave you an edge. Today, the equivalent is knowing how to write prompts and create AI Agents. The best part? This prompting is even more powerful when collaborating with others.
We introduced our Team plan – bringing multiplayer AI and AI Agents to organizations of all sizes. This plan allows teams to create and share AI Agents and collaborate within one AI-powered conversation. Enterprise teams can use the public web and proprietary data without data retention concerns.
This collaborative approach is proving invaluable, especially in fast-paced industries like cybersecurity.
"We realized that if we don't become competent in Generative AI within the next 2 years, we won't be competent at our jobs. Through our collaboration with You.com, we've gained practical insights and hands-on experience that are crucial for staying ahead in this rapidly evolving landscape. The You.com Team platform has empowered us to embrace AI as a transformative tool, ensuring we remain at the forefront of innovation in our industry,” said Paul Heard, Chief Information Officer at Mimecast, an email security and cyber resilience company.
A commitment to accuracy and innovation
What sets You.com apart is our relentless focus on accuracy and user experience. We've built an entire AI Operating System that's model-agnostic and can make any Large Language Model more accurate and trustworthy. Our live web access, search capabilities, dynamic prompting, and advanced citation logic ensure you get reliable, up-to-date information every time.
This commitment to accuracy and innovation is particularly crucial in fields like education. At Maryville University, You.com is helping to shape the future of learning.
"At Maryville University, we are committed to not only adapting to cutting-edge technology but also leading the charge in innovation. We believe that to effectively 'teach' with AI, it's essential to establish a shared language of its use. You.com has empowered our faculty by streamlining the choice of AI models and addressing data security concerns. The Team platform fosters a unified approach among our faculty and staff, allowing them to concentrate on what truly matters—our students. Through our partnership with You.com, we've been able to innovate and develop new strategies that ensure our students thrive in an AI-powered world,” said Michael Palmer, Instructor of Computer Science and AI-Innovator-In-Residence.
Why does accuracy matter? If each step of an AI agent is only 95% accurate, none of the 30-step workflows will work reliably. Going from 95% to 99.9% accuracy is similar to the last-mile problem in self-driving cars. It's easy to hack up a prototype, but making it work reliably at scale is hard. We've been doing that for knowledge work at You.com for the last 14 months.
Industry recognition and collaboration
Our approach to AI-driven productivity has caught the attention of industry leaders, including Gen Digital, a key participant in our Series B funding with 500 million users worldwide.
Howie Xu, Chief AI and Innovation Officer at Gen, said: "At Gen Digital, we are building both AI-native consumer products and AI-native organizations. There is great synergy between the LLM and agentic capabilities of you.com and the 'AI electricity' needs of Gen Digital."
Make your business future-proof
Since our launch, we've served 1 billion queries, and our ARR has grown by 500% since January 2024. What sets our B2B offering apart is our focus on customer success, enabling our enterprise customers to make use of this technology and not just deploy proof-of-concepts that don't get adopted.
Our Series B will enable us to continue building the most trusted AI productivity engine and expand into the enterprise.
For organizations ready to experience the power of an AI Productivity Engine, sign up for our Team plan. For enterprises, our consumption-based pricing aligns incentives so that you only pay when your employees get more productive.
Thank you to everyone who has been part of the You.com journey so far. We are grateful for your support and, more importantly, your trust.
Better, better. Never done.
Many wishes,
Richard Socher
CEO/co-founder, you.com
