
High accuracy search API over unstructured data.
What they do: Developer-first retrieval infrastructure: rerankers, embeddings, and end-to-end search systems
Flagship products: ze-rank-1 (reranker) and zembed-1 (embedding model)
Funding: $4.2M seed announced July 9, 2025; company-stated total raised ≈ $4.4M
Founders: Ghita Houir Alami (Founder & CEO) and Nicholas Pipitone (Co-founder & CTO)
Accelerator: Y Combinator (Winter 2025)
Location & year: San Francisco; founded 2024
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Search and retrieval over unstructured data (dense retrieval, hybrid search, reranking).
2024
AI infrastructure
$4.2M
Company announcement lists participating investors and states the round brings total raised to approximately $4.4M.
“Seed round led by Initialized Capital with participation from Y Combinator, Transpose Platform, 22 Ventures, an a16z Scout, and multiple angel investors (including Thomas Wolf, Mathilde Collin, Jean Lafleur, Laura Modiano, Tyler Bosmeny, Richard Aberman, and Kulveer Taggar).”