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Mintlify
mintlify.com · filed 2026·05·15
FILED 2026·05·15

Mintlify sells documentation and knowledge infrastructure to software companies, letting developers publish and maintain structured docs that serve both human readers and AI agents consuming product knowledge.

Raised $67M across disclosed rounds.

Series B closed Apr 2026, led by Andreessen Horowitz.

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ExaDeveloper of an artificial intelligence-powered search engine designed to perform web searches at a large scale.
TurbopufferDeveloper of a serverless vector database designed for the technology and data storage industries.
ClickHouseDeveloper of an online analytical processing database management system designed to generate analytical reports using SQL queries.
CursorDeveloper of an artificial intelligence-powered coding platform designed to enhance the productivity and capabilities of programmers and software engineers.
RampDeveloper of a spend-management platform designed to streamline business, improve efficiency, and build healthier enterprises.
MintlifyDeveloper of an intelligent knowledge platform designed to organize, analyze, and surface enterprise knowledge for improved decision-making.

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MintlifyPitchBook

Developer of an intelligent knowledge platform designed to organize, analyze, and surface enterprise knowledge for improved decision-making.

Employees
62
Contacts
2
Deals
5
Investors
11
Year founded
2021
Primary industry
Business/Productivity Software
They say 62. Our sources say 85. LinkedIn agrees.

PitchBook, accessed August 11, 2026.

CS · MINTLIFY · 26FILED2026·08·11
Mintlify
Sells documentation and knowledge infrastructure to software companies.
Large enterprises including Anthropic, Perplexity, Vercel, Fidelity, and Replit.
Nearly half of traffic across Mintlify-hosted docs now comes from AI agents rather than human browsers.
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turbopufferPitchBook
Employees
22 (as of 2025)
Total raised
Post valuation
Revenue

PitchBook, accessed August 11, 2026.

CS · TURBOPUFFER · 26FILED2026·08·11
turbopuffer
Anthropic, Cursor, Notion, Atlassian.
Vector and full-text search on cheap object storage instead of expensive in-memory systems.
Warm, cached queries return in about 20ms (p50).
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Who do they compete with?

ClickHousePitchBook
Databricks
Employees9,000
Total raised$29.52B
Anthropic
Employees5,000
Total raised$161.25B
Grafana Labs
Employees1,600

PitchBook, accessed August 11, 2026.

CS · CLICKHOUSE · 26FILED2026·08·11
ClickHouse
Snowflakesnowflake.com
Named directly as a competitor by Bloomberg and TechCrunch.
bloomberg.com · techcrunch.com
Databricksdatabricks.com
Same buyer evaluating a data platform for analytics and AI workloads.
bloomberg.com · techcrunch.com
Elasticelastic.co
ClickHouse positions against Elasticsearch for log analytics.
clickhouse.com
LangSmithsmith.langchain.com
Langfuse, acquired by ClickHouse, competes directly with LangSmith.
techcrunch.com
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