Funds for AI Search Agent Firm Onyx

In San Francisco, 'deep research agent' Onyx has announced a $10m seed round of funding, with which to continue developing its software and expand its engineering, developer relations and go-to-market teams. The firm says its workplace AI agent is 'the first... to search for answers like a human would'.

Onyx provides an open source enterprise search solution, using an agent which 'explores parallel pathways and iteratively digs down promising directions' to retrieve knowledge scattered across an enterprise and answer questions with detailed and appropriate context. The system indexes knowledge across more than 40 tools including Salesforce, Sharepoint, GitHub and Gong, to provide instant answers for queries from technical or non-technical individuals.

The round was co-led by Khosla Ventures and First Round Capital, with participation from Y Combinator and a number of angel investors. Co-founder Yuhong Sun comments: 'We are excited to work with this impressive set of investors who have deep expertise in AI and open source technology to help us bring enterprise search and GenAI to more teams around the world. Having worked at high growth tech companies, we experienced first hand the challenges of knowledge getting buried in disparate knowledge bases and becoming lost. We built Onyx as an open-source solution for companies to solve this challenge without needing to send all their data to external parties'.

The company is online at www.onyx.app .

Pictured are co-founder and co-CEOs Chris Weaver and Yuhong Sun.

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