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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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