Type of site | Search engine |
|---|---|
| Dissolved | 2 June 2023 |
| Founder(s) | Sridhar Ramaswamy, Vivek Raghunathan |
| Current status | Inactive |
Neeva was an internetsearch engine founded in 2019 that emphasized protecting searchers'privacy.[1] It utilized variousAPIs of other websites to show quick results to queries and for traditional links it used the help of its partners and its owncrawler.[2] It shut down in 2023 and was bought bySnowflake Inc.
The company was based inMountain View, California and had 25 employees as of June 19, 2020.[3]
Neeva was founded in 2019 bySridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan. Neeva had raised $77.5m from investors.[4]
In 2023, the co-founders announced the shutdown of the search engine on June 2.[5] According to them, the main reason for that decision was how hard it was to persuade normal users to make the switch. They thanked customers and announced that they would be compensating users for the unused portion of Neeva accounts and reallocating their tools and technologies to other industries.[6]
In May 2023,Snowflake announced the acquisition of Neeva, for $185.4M in cash.[7] This was to accelerate the search in the Cloud through Artificial Intelligence.[8] Following the acquisition, Neeva co-founderSridhar Ramaswamy later became the CEO of Snowflake.
Neeva's search results were a compilation of various partners includingYelp, Ignite, Intrinio,Microsoft Bing, and its ownWeb crawler.[2] It included weather information fromThe Weather Channel[3] and maps data fromApple Inc.[3] Neeva also allowed customers to link personal items which could then be searched.[9]