Trieve - About the company
Trieve is an acquired company based in San Francisco (United States), founded in 2023 by Nicholas Khami and Denzell Ford. It operates as an Infrastructure for building AI search into applications. Trieve has raised $3.5M in funding from Y Combinator and Root Ventures. The company has 1813 active competitors, including 129 funded and 17 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Perplexity, Genspark and Fireworks.
Company Details
Infrastructure for building AI search into applications. It combines search language models with tools for human fine-tuning, offering features such as date recency biasing, re-ranker models, semantic search, and sub-sentence capabilities. It offers a source available search platform with dense-vector semantic capabilities and RAG support compared to Algolia.
- Website
- www.trieve.ai
- Social
- Email ID
- *****@trieve.ai
- Phone Number
- +1 **********
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2023
Location
San Francisco, United States
Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$3.5M in 1 round
Latest Funding Round
Investors
Ranked
115th among 1813 active competitors
Employee Count
10 - 49 as on Mar 01, 2026
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Exit Details
Acquired by Mintlify (Jul 24, 2025)
Trieve's acquisition details
Trieve got acquired by Mintlify on Jul 24, 2025.
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Trieve's funding and investors
Trieve has raised a total funding of $3.5M over 1 round. Its latest funding round was a Seed round on Sep 11, 2024 for $*****. 7 investors participated in its latest round. Trieve has 4 institutional investors and 6 angel investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Trieve:
Date of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 11, 2024 | 6351926 | Seed | 8757464 | 4798942 | 8825389 | 7872773 |
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Trieve's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of Trieve are Nicholas Khami and Denzell Ford.
Here are the details of Trieve's key team members:
- Nicholas Khami: Former Co-Founder of Trieve. Contact Info: 1 email address
- Denzell Ford: Former Co-Founder of Trieve. Contact Info: 1 email address
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Trieve's employee count trend
Trieve has 10 - 49 employees as of Mar 26. Here is Trieve's employee count trend over the years:
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Trieve's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of Trieve include Perplexity, Genspark and Fireworks. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Trieve, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st | Perplexity 2022, San Francisco (United States), Series E | AI-powered search and answer generation | $1.72B | 85/100 | |
2nd | Genspark 2023, Palo Alto (United States), Series B | Provider of AI-powered productivity and workspace solutions | $645M | 74/100 | |
3rd |  Fireworks 2022, Redwood City (United States), Series D | Generative AI platform as a service for accelerating product innovation and disruption | $1.81B | 72/100 | |
4th | Goodfire 2024, San Francisco (United States), Series B | Interpretability tooling for generative AI models | $209M | 71/100 | |
5th |  Cartesia 2023, San Francisco (United States), Series A | Provider of real-time text-to-speech API with AI laughter and emotion | $86M | 67/100 | |
6th | An AI-driven knowledge discovery platform leveraging proprietary generative answer technology to provide real-time accurate information in various subjects | $18.2M | 67/100 | ||
7th | Provider of licensed data-trained AI platform for visual content generation | $65M | 66/100 | ||
8th | Developer of AI models for text, speech, video, and music generation | $1.15B | 62/100 | ||
9th | Arcee.ai 2023, Miami (United States), Series A | Platform to train, and deploy language models | $29.5M | 62/100 | |
10th |  Braintrust 2023, San Francisco (United States), Series B | Provider of an AI observability platform for building quality AI products | $121M | 61/100 | |
115th | Trieve 2023, San Francisco (United States), Acquired | Infrastructure for building AI search into applications | $3.5M | 34/100 |
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Trieve's Investments and acquisitions
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News related to Trieve
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Mintlify Acquires Trieve to Advance AI-Powered Knowledge AccessibilityGlobeNewswire•Jul 24, 2025•Trieve, Mintlify
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