When was Jina AI founded?

Jina AI was founded in 2020 and raised its 1st funding round within a year of its incorporation.

Where is Jina AI located?

Jina AI is headquartered in Germany.

Who is the current CEO of Jina AI?

Han Xiao of Jina AI. They have also founded 1 company.

How many employees does Jina AI have?

As of May 31, 2026, the latest employee count at Jina AI is 44.

Is Jina AI a funded company?

Jina AI is a funded company, having raised a total of $39M across 2 funding rounds to date. The company's 1st funding round was a $***** Seed round, raised on Sep 23, 2020.

When was the latest funding round of Jina AI?

Jina AI's latest funding was a $***** Series A round on Nov 22, 2021, with participation from 5 investors.

Where does Jina AI rank among its competitors?

Jina AI ranks 15th amongst 423 active competitors, of which 51 are funded. It stands 11th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was LangChain, which secured $125M in Oct, 2025.

Who are the top competitors of Jina AI?

Jina AI's top competitors include Hugging Face, You Technologies and Elastic. Among them, LangChain secured the most recent funding round in October, 2025.

Jina AI - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding, Competitors & Financials

Company Details

Developer of search foundation providing embeddings, reranker, and reader capabilities. The company offers tools to convert URLs to LLM-friendly input. It provides multimodal multilingual embeddings and a reranker for maximizing search relevancy. The platform allows users to read URLs and fetch content, search the web, and get SERP. It offers an API to access its services in LLMs.

Website: jina.ai
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Email ID: *****@jina.ai

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Founded Year

2020

Location

Germany

Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$39M in 2 rounds

Latest Funding Round

Series A, Nov 22, 2021, $*****

Investors

Canaan & 5 more

Ranked

15^th among 423 active competitors

Employee Count

44 as on May 31, 2026

Similar Companies

Hugging Face & 550 more

Exit Details

Acquired by Elastic (Oct 09, 2025)

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Jina AI is associated with 3 legal entities given below:

Legal Entity Name	Date of Incorporation	Revenue	Latest Employee Count
JINA AI (GLOBAL) PTE. LTD CIN: 202109958C , Singapore, Active	Mar 19, 2021	-	-
JINA AI GMBH CIN: HRB218021 , Germany, Active	Jun 08, 2020	-	31 (As on Dec 31, 2023)
Jina AI GmbH CIN: F1103_HRB218021B , Germany, Active	Jun 09, 2020	-	-

Jina AI got acquired by Elastic on Oct 09, 2025.

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Jina AI has raised a total funding of $39M over 2 rounds. Its first funding round was on Sep 23, 2020. Its latest funding round was a Series A round on Nov 22, 2021 for $*****. 5 investors participated in its latest round. Jina AI has 6 institutional investors.

Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Jina AI:

Date of Funding	Funding Amount	Round Name	Post-Money Valuation	Revenue Multiple	Lead Investors	Other Investors
Nov 22, 2021	3777520	Series A	8591744	1320477	3731019	9927546
Sep 23, 2020	5482423	Seed	5089424	7249827	SAP.iO	8704632

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The founders of Jina AI are Nan Wang and Han Xiao. Han Xiao is the CEO of Jina AI.

Here are the details of Jina AI's key team members:

Nan Wang: Co-Founder of Jina AI.
Han Xiao: Founder and CEO of Jina AI.

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Jina AI's employee count trend

Jina AI has 44 employees as of May 26. Here is Jina AI's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Jina AI include Hugging Face, You Technologies and Elastic. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Jina AI, ranked by Tracxn score:

Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	Tracxn Score
1st	Hugging Face 2016, Paris (France), Series D	Platform offering collaborative tools for sharing and deploying machine learning models	$400M	Lux Capital, Addition & 32 others	77/100
2nd	You Technologies 2020, Palo Alto (United States), Series C	AI-enabled key-word based private search engine	$199M	Georgian, Radical Ventures & 19 others	74/100
3rd	Elastic 2012, San Francisco (United States), Public	Cloud based text analytics platform	$104M	New Enterprise Associates, ADS Ventures & 9 others	72/100
4th	Stability AI 2021, London (United Kingdom), Seed	Developer of generative AI models for image, video, audio, and 3D	$181M	Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue & 17 others	72/100
5th	LangChain 2022, San Francisco (United States), Series B	Developer of tools for building, testing, and deploying AI agent applications	$260M	IVP, Benchmark & 13 others	70/100
6th	Lucidworks 2007, San Francisco (United States), Series F	Provider of AI-powered search and discovery platform for digital experiences	$218M	Granite Ventures, Walden International & 10 others	70/100
7th	Coveo 2004, Quebec City (Canada), Public	Provider of AI-powered search and recommendation solutions for enterprise businesses	$358M	Elliott Management, OMERS & 17 others	70/100
8th	Sanalabs 2016, Stockholm (Sweden), Acquired	Developer of AI agents and an AI-native learning management system	$136M	New Enterprise Associates, Menlo Ventures ... & 18 others	68/100
9th	Fetch.ai 2017, Cambridge (United Kingdom), Series C	Blockchain-based network for application and AI infrastructure	$61.9M	DWF Labs, Gda Group & 14 others	68/100
10th	deepset 2018, Berlin (Germany), Series B	Developer of a platform for building custom artificial intelligence solutions	$45.6M	Lunar Ventures, Google Ventures & 15 others	65/100
15th	Jina AI 2020, Germany, Acquired	Developer of search foundation providing embeddings, reranker, and reader capabilities	$39M	Mango Capital, Canaan & 4 others	58/100