Algolia acquired Australian vector search startup Search.io in late 2022
Bernadette Nixon · Playbook to Achieving CEO - CRO Harmony with @Algolia CEO Bernadette Nixon and CRO Michelle Adams · Nov 22, 2022 · at 19:21
Bernadette Nixon is CEO of Algolia. She discusses Algolia's acquisition of Search.io to combine keyword search with vector-based semantic search.
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“We made an announcement yesterday that we acquired A company called search.io. So we have been the leading API first keyword search platform on the market, and search.io cool startup, about 30 people, mostly out of Australia, and they are, and they have a semantic search, but based on a vector search engine”
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