Nozomio
Category: AI Developer Tools
A product and research lab solving context for AI agents, starting with Nia — a search and index API. Nozomio was founded in 2025. The company is led by Arlan Rakhmetzhanov. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team size: 1-10. Total funding raised: $6.2M. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include ["Y Combinator","CRV","BoxGroup","LocalGlobe","Paul Graham"].
- Founded
- 2025
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Team size
- 1-10
- Total funding
- $6.2M
Value proposition
To provide AI agents with continuous, up-to-date context from docs, research papers, datasets, codebases, and more so they never rely on stale data — starting with Nia, a search and index API.
Products and solutions
["Nia","AgentSearch"]
Unique value
Nozomio focuses on 'context augmentation' for AI agents, addressing the common limitation of stale or missing context. Nia is a scalable, 5x cheaper retrieval API that indexes any source — code, docs, PDFs, datasets — so agents always have the right context.
Target customer
Software developers, engineers, and enterprise engineering teams.
Industries served
["Software Development","Technology"]
Technology advantage
Nia is an MCP server that indexes entire codebases and documentation sites, performs deep research, and provides context so agents like Cursor, Continue, and Cline 'just know' the right answer. In internal evals, Nia improved Cursor's performance by 27% once it indexed external docs models couldn't access from training data or web search.
How they differentiate
Nozomio differentiates itself by being a context-aware coding assistant that analyzes entire codebases to provide intelligent, architecture-level insights, going beyond simple code completion to understand the broader structure and logic of the software.
Main competitors
["GitHub Copilot","Tabnine","Amazon CodeWhisperer"]
Key partnerships
["Y Combinator","Cursor (performance benchmark collaboration)"]
Notable customers
["Not publicly available."]
Major milestones
["Raised an oversubscribed $6.2M seed round.","Backed by Y Combinator.","Founder, Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, was named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list."]
Growth metrics
Not publicly available.
Market positioning
Nozomio is positioned as a high-end, intelligent tool for professional software engineers and teams, focusing on deep codebase analysis and architectural understanding rather than just autocompletion.
Geographic focus
Global, with a primary focus on North America and other major technology hubs.
Patents and IP
Information on patents is not publicly available. As an early-stage startup, any IP is likely held as a trade secret.
About Arlan Rakhmetzhanov
Founder of Nozomio (YC S24). Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2024 for Enterprise Technology. Conducted research at Stanford University. Dropped out of high school to build the company.
Official website: https://www.nozomio.com/