Onyx Raises $10M To Help Teams Find Knowledge Faster with Open Source AI Agents
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- , the first AI deep research agent designed for the workplace, announced today a $10M seed round of funding. The round was co-led by Khosla Ventures and First Round Capital, with participation from Y Combinator and prominent angels like Gokul Rajaram (Coinbase, Pinterest), Arash Ferdosi (Dropbox), Amit Agarwal (Datadog), Kulveer Taggar (Zeus Living) and others.Onyx will use the funds to continue to develop its AI research agent and hire for key roles in engineering, developer relations and go-to-market.We are excited to work with this impressive set of investors who have deep expertise in AI and open source technology to help us bring enterprise search and GenAI to more teams around the world, said Yuhong Sun, Co-Founder of Onyx. We built Onyx as an open-source solution for companies to solve this challenge without needing to send all their data to external parties.As teams scale, knowledge becomes scattered, irretrievable across a sprawl of SaaS tools. While they zeroed in on a practical and important use case for agentic AI -- enterprise search -- they knew that companies care deeply about privacy and security, which is one of many reasons why their Open Source approach makes so much sense. Dozens of enterprise customers are choosing Onyx to help their teams work smarter from household names like Netflix to security conscious defense companies like Thales Group.