San Francisco, March 12, 2025 (Globe Newswire) – Onyx, the first AI deep search agent designed for the workplace, today announced funding for a $10 million seed round. The round was co-led by Khosla Ventures and First Round Capital, with participation from prominent angels like Gokul Rajaram (Coinbase, Pinterest), Arash Ferdosi (Dropbox), Amit Agarwal (Datadog), and Kulveer Taggar (Zeus Living).
Using funds, Onyx will continue to develop AI research agents and play a key role in engineering, developer relationships and to market.
“We’re looking forward to seeing you in the world,” said Yuhong Sun, co-founder of Onyx. “We, who worked at a High Growth Tech company, experienced first-hand the knowledge challenges that get lost and buried in a different knowledge base. We built Onyx as an open source solution for companies to solve this challenge without the need to send all our data to external stakeholders.”
As your team grows, knowledge becomes scattered and irreparable across the spread of SaaS tools. Employees should now search for Slack, Confluence, Google Drive and other tools to find information that is disappointing only through outdated keyword-based searches.
Onyx acts as the most knowledgeable coworker available 24/7. This is the first AI research agent designed for workplaces that search like humans. Onyx agents explore parallel paths and repeatedly delve into promising directions to get the most complete context for each question. We index knowledge across over 40 tools, including Salesforce, SharePoint, GitHub, and Gong. Instead of ping someone into your slack/team and waiting a few minutes or hours to get a response, you can ask Onyx anything and get an answer right away.
From common names like Netflix to security-conscious defense organizations like Thales Group and cybersecurity companies like Bitwarden, dozens of companies choose Onyx to help their teams become smarter.
Adina Tecklu, partner at Khosla Ventures, said: “Onyx is an open source enterprise search solution designed for privacy and security. It enhances customers for immediate access to critical information, eliminating the need to waste time switching apps and searching for answers.”
“In the first round, we invest in founders who have a big vision and look at them differently than anyone else. This is how I describe Yuhong and Chris. It’s very easy.”
About Onyx
Onyx is the largest open source enterprise search solution. They lead the space with the first AI agents designed to search for workplaces like humans. Onyx agents explore parallel paths and repeatedly delve into promising directions to get the most complete context for each question. Dozens of corporate customers have chosen Onyx to help their teams work smarter, from common names like Netflix to security-conscious defense companies like Thales Group. Onyx is based in San Francisco and is supported by Khosla Venture, First Round Capital, Y Combinators and well-known angels. For more information, please visit http://www.onyx.app.
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