QueryLift raises $640K seed for AI-search optimisation
What's the deal? Tokyo-based QueryLiftDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has raised US$769.2K in a seed round from JAFCODealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and Z Venture CapitalDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. The company runs a generative engine optimisation (GEO) platform that tracks how brands and products surface across AI assistants like ChatGPTDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Gemini, ClaudeDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and Google AI OverviewsDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →.
What's the endgame? QueryLift analyses which questions trigger mentions of a company, what sources AI cites, and how products get compared or recommended. It then guides content improvements and measures the results in one product.
Why now? People increasingly ask AI before reading websites one by one, and generative models pull from third-party media and mixed-quality sources — not just official pages. That gap sits beyond what traditional SEO can track, chief executive officer Soudai Noguchi argues.
Show me the results. QueryLift cites Japan's Liberal Democratic PartyDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, which set official-site citation rate as a metric. Over four months, the party's official homepage citation rate in AI answers rose 2.7 times.
What's next? The funding will fund research and development in natural language processing and information retrieval, feeding those results back into the product. QueryLift also plans to strengthen enterprise sales and build a "GEO agent" that runs analysis, improvement, and verification autonomously. One research finding was accepted at the CIKM 2026 conference.
The signal: The round sits in the 24th percentile by size — a modest early bet on a nascent category. But investors are wagering that as search shifts to generative AI, GEO becomes a standard corporate need across industries, from finance to consumer brands.
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