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Jina AI

Jina AI built and sold API-accessible embedding models, rerankers, and web-reader tools for multilingual and multimodal search, and was acquired by Elastic in October 2025.

jina.ai · Sunnyvale

CALL NO.CS·JINA·26
StageSeries ANovember 2021 · led by Canaan Partners[2][3][5]
Raised$38Mdisclosed rounds[1][2][3][5]
Headcount13as of Apr 2026[1]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2020[1][2][4]
Money

Raised $38M across disclosed rounds.[1][2][3][5]

Series A closed November 2021, led by Canaan Partners.[2][3][5]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Canaan Partners, GGV Capital, Yunqi Partners, Mango Capital, SAP.iO.[2][3][5]

People

Han Xiao, CEO & Founder[2][3][4][13][14]

Nan Wang, Co-Founder & CTO[2][3][4][13][14]

Bing He, Co-Founder & COO[2][3][4][13][14]

Han Xiao, VP of AI at Elastic (post-acquisition)[1][12][13]

Signals
May 11 2026launchElastic Introduces Jina v5 Omni Family: Two Models to Power Text, Image, Video, and Audio Search company claim, not independently confirmed[7]
Feb 20 2026newsJina AI Releases Text Embedding Model Under 1B Params | Benzene.ai[10]
Feb 19 2026launchJina AI releases jina-embeddings-v5-text (677M and 239M models with task-specific LoRA adapters)[1]
Feb 2 2026newsjina-rerankers on Elastic Inference Service - Elasticsearch Labs[11]
Jan 12 2026newsjina-embeddings-v3 is now available on Elastic Inference Service - Elasticsearch Labs[8]
Dec 8 2025launchJina AI releases jina-VLM: 2B vision-language model achieving SOTA on multilingual visual QA[1]
Comps

Cohere · cohere.com · Same product category — API-accessible embedding and reranker models for semantic search and RAG — and named as a direct alternative to Jina AI across multiple competitor lists.[16][17][18]

Voyage AI · voyageai.com · Same buyer workflow — developer teams calling embedding APIs for retrieval-augmented generation — and listed as a Jina AI alternative in competitor analysis sources.[16][18]

Nomic AI · nomic.ai · Overlapping product — open-weights and API embedding models for multimodal and multilingual search — and named as a Jina AI alternative in market comparison sources.[16][18]

Weaviate · weaviate.io · Same buyer and workflow — engineering teams building semantic search and RAG stacks — and listed alongside Jina AI in competitor and alternatives analyses.[17][18]

Risk

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Jina AI

CALL NO.CS·JINA·26

Jina AI built and sold API-accessible embedding models, rerankers, and web-reader tools for multilingual and multimodal search, and was acquired by Elastic in October 2025.

jina.ai · Sunnyvale

StageSeries A
Raised$38M
Headcount13
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2020
CompsCohere +3

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