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Vespa
Vespa began as a project within Yahoo’s and has grown to become the platform of choice for applying AI to big data sets at serving time
About Vespa
Vespa.ai is an AI search platform that enables the development and operation of large-scale applications. The platform combines big data, vector search, machine-learned ranking, and real-time inference to deliver AI-driven search, recommendation, and personalization.
Vespa.ai is designed for businesses that need to make AI-driven decisions using large datasets in real-time and at any scale. The platform provides the building blocks for AI applications, including a vector database, hybrid search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), natural language processing (NLP), and machine learning. The company offers a serverless cloud experience, handling a high volume of user requests per second. The business model is based on providing a scalable AI solution with a 14-day free trial to get started.
Source: Dealroom company dataAt a glance
- Status
- Operational
- Founded
- 2005
- Headquarters
- Trondheim, Norway
- Employees
- 68
- Open positions
- 1
- Dealroom signal
- 80.6/100
- Industry
- Enterprise Software
- Sector
- AI, Developer Tools, Core AI, MLops, AI Data Preparation and Generation, AI Model Deployment and Monitoring, slush24
- Technology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Business model
- SaaS
- Client focus
- b2b
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SERIES A✓Equity / VC | Nov 2023 | $31M | $124M | Blossom Capital | ↗ |
| CORPORATE SPINOUT✓Other financing | Oct 2023 | $0 | — | Yahoo! | ↗ |
Financials
Revenue, earnings and other financial measures where available. Years marked “E” are estimates.
Growth signals
Latest recorded traffic for Vespa is 44K monthly website visits, up 4.8% over the last three months. Vespa's team grew 7.9% over the past year.
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Investments and acquisitions
Recent portfolio relationships for companies that also act as investors or acquirers.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
Blossom Capital
Series B and later1 investor entered at this stage
Yahoo!
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Global footprint
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Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Vespa on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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