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Phind

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Founded 2022Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Phind is an AI search engine. It uses multi-step reasoning to find the best answer for your question and generative UI to present it in the most beautiful and interactive way.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Previously Hello Cognition, Hello, Phind, phind.com

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Michael Royzen

Founder

Founder & CEO at Standard Signal (YC P26), building the first hedge fund where AI runs everything from research to the actual trade execution end-to-end. Previously co-founder & CEO at Phind (YC S22), where I built the first AI search engine and trained LLMs that beat GPT-4 on HumanEval (2024) and had the #1-ranked open-source coding model on Hugging Face for 6 months in 2023. UT Austin Turing Scholar '22 Previously an undergrad NLP researcher, as well as ML at Lyft, Cloudflare, and Microsoft.

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Founded 2022 · Source

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Hacker News · Y Combinator

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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The source reports an inactive or acquired company; current product identity needs review.

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