Algolia, a search-as-a-service provider in real-time, raised 18,3 million dollars, with Accel Partners leading the round. The main ‘job’ of Algolia is to make a website’s search box look attractive and easy to implement, in a quest to make the experience as responsive as possible for its users.
Today, something more than 600 companies such as CrunchBase, Genius.com, Vevo, Medium, WeWork etc. rely on Algolia, which represents more than four billion user-generated queries per month.