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The AI search engine that grew from $85M to $250M annualized revenue in three months
HQ: Palo Alto, CA, United States | Founded: 2024 | Employees: ~100 (2026, est.) | Stage: Late Stage VC ($2.6B valuation) | Website: https://www.genspark.ai
Genspark was founded in 2024 by Eric Jing — a senior staff engineer at Google Search who helped build the infrastructure behind the world's most-used product — and Kay Zhu, an ex-Microsoft engineer with deep systems experience. Their founding critique of AI search: most 'AI search' products still returned a chatbot answer plus links, rather than rethinking what search should be in the AI era. Genspark's answer is Sparkpages: when you search, Genspark generates a rich, AI-built page synthesizing the answer from multiple sources — structured, cited, and continuously regenerated — rather than a list of blue links.\n\nThe product grew with exceptional velocity: 2M+ monthly active users, and revenue ramping from $85M annualized at end of 2025 to $250M by March 2026 (Sacra), monetized through a
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