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.
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]
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]
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]
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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.
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