Every day, AI developers grapple with the complexities of building reliable, accurate retrieval systems for large, unstructured data. Despite massive advancements in generative AI, retrieving precise, relevant information from messy knowledge bases has remained a persistent bottleneck, until now.

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that ZeroEntropy has raised a $4.1M Seed round led by Initialized Capital, with support from Y Combinator, Transpose Platform, 22 Ventures, a16z Scout, Thomas Wolff (Hugging Face), Mathilde Collin (Front), Jean Lafleur (Airbyte), Laura Modiano (OpenAI, Sequoia Scout), Tyler Bosmeny (Clever), Founders Future, Kima Ventures, Batch Ventures, Richard Aberman (WePay), Kulveer Taggar (Zeus), and other strategic angel investors. This funding brings our total raised capital to approximately $4.3M, empowering us to accelerate our mission to revolutionize how AI retrieves and understands information.

Why Retrieval Matters: The Invisible Layer of AI Intelligence

Before founding ZeroEntropy, we were building advanced AI systems at startups and in academia. Repeatedly, we encountered the same frustration: even sophisticated models failed to deliver reliable answers due to poor retrieval from unstructured data sources. Everyone was reinventing complex retrieval pipelines, wasting significant resources, and still struggling with suboptimal results.

ZeroEntropy was founded to solve this foundational, often overlooked challenge. We built our API to instantly provide highly accurate, low-latency retrieval across even the messiest internal documents. Our platform seamlessly manages the entire retrieval process—from ingestion and preprocessing to embedding and reranking—making it possible for developers to deploy state-of-the-art search capabilities in just an afternoon.

Already Trusted by Leading AI Teams

In a few short months, we've already begun serving innovative companies and AI developers who rely on precise retrieval to power their RAG and AI agent applications. Our customers have replaced fragile, complicated systems with our streamlined, fully integrated solution, dramatically improving accuracy and reducing latency.

What's Next: Building the Future of Reliable AI Retrieval

With this round of funding, ZeroEntropy will grow our talented team, further enhance our cutting-edge retrieval models, and expand our infrastructure to serve even more customers. Our vision is clear: create the invisible layer that powers reliable, intelligent AI retrieval, helping developers focus on building transformative products instead of struggling with retrieval challenges.

We’re actively hiring passionate engineers who share our mission. If you’re excited about revolutionizing AI retrieval, we’d love to meet you.

Stay tuned for more updates as we build the future of intelligent retrieval.

Learn more at zeroentropy.dev