Keewano raises $12m: Evertrace spotted Mark Kardashov 673 days earlier

Keewano has raised $12m in seed funding. The company is building database infrastructure for AI systems that need to reason about data.

Evertrace spotted Mark Kardashov, co-founder of Keewano, 673 days before the funding announcement.

Before the round

On 11 November 2024, Evertrace detected a stealth signal for Mark Kardashov. Mark was in stealth, working on something new. That was 673 days before Keewano's funding announcement.

What they’re building

KeewanoDB is designed to give AI agents context they can use to answer questions and reason across large datasets. The company is building infrastructure around the needs of machine reasoning rather than treating AI as a layer added after the database.

Its founding team includes Vitaly Bukhovsky, Pavel Bibergal, Mark Kardashov and Dima Karger. The funding announcement also marked the general availability of KeewanoDB.

The round

Keewano announced $12 million in total seed funding led by Hetz Ventures, with participation from a16z speedrun, Remagine Ventures, DIG Ventures and angels. The company is using that backing to develop and bring its database platform to market.

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