Linkup
Category: AI Search / Retrieval
Production-grade web search API purpose-built for AI systems, delivering verified real-time 'information atoms' instead of links. Linkup was founded in 2024. The company is led by Philippe Mizrahi. Based in Paris, France. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $13.2M. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include Gradient (lead, 2026 seed), Seedcamp, Elaia, Leblon Capital, Weekend Fund, Axeleo Capital, Motier Ventures, OPRTRS Club, Financière Saint James, Kima Ventures.
- Founded
- 2024
- Headquarters
- Paris, France
- Team size
- 11-50
- Total funding
- $13.2M
Value proposition
Provides AI agents and LLM applications with fast, structured, verified real-time web information (not just links) via a sub-second search API.
Products and solutions
Linkup Search (incl. /fast sub-second mode), Linkup Fetch, Linkup Research, Linkup Tasks, Linkup Extract, Enterprise Private Index / Bring Your Own Cloud
Unique value
Indexes 'information atoms' (individual verified facts with source/timestamp/credibility) rather than full web pages, enabling AI systems to retrieve current, structured, trustworthy information at sub-second latency.
Target customer
AI companies, enterprises building AI agents/products (e.g. consulting firms, fintech, AI agent platforms)
Industries served
AI Infrastructure, Enterprise AI, Consulting, Fintech, Legal Tech
Technology advantage
Proprietary 'information atom' indexing + embeddings for semantic retrieval; #1 ranking on OpenAI's SimpleQA benchmark; sub-second /fast API architecture.
How they differentiate
Focuses on extracted 'information atoms' with source/credibility metadata rather than raw page links, optimized specifically for AI agent consumption vs. human-oriented search.
Main competitors
Exa AI, Tavily, Perplexity (Sonar API)
Key partnerships
Microsoft GenAI Studio (Microsoft, Nvidia, GitHub, Mistral AI, Cellenza), SambaNova (real-time web search grounding for SambaCloud LLMs)
Notable customers
McKinsey, SNCF, Cohere, Legora, Polymarket, Artisan AI, KPMG
Major milestones
2024: Founded in Paris, selected for Microsoft GenAI Studio (Oct 2024), raised €3M seed (Nov 2024). 2026: Launched Linkup /fast sub-second search API, ranked #1 on OpenAI's SimpleQA benchmark, raised $10M seed round led by Gradient (Mar 2026).
Growth metrics
Reported ~$990K revenue with a 9-person team as of 2025 (Getlatka); grown to ~23 employees by 2026 (PitchBook); thousands of API users; powering hundreds of companies globally.
Market positioning
AI-native web search infrastructure layer positioned as 'Google Search for AIs', competing directly with Exa and Tavily in the emerging AI-search-API category.
Geographic focus
Global, HQ Paris with offices/hiring in New York and San Francisco
About Philippe Mizrahi
Ex-Lyft, Group Product Manager (built graph-based data search systems); Columbia University in the City of New York.
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Official website: https://www.linkup.so