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Swiftype funding, valuation and investors
Hosted site search and enterprise search SaaS.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Seed
$1.7M · August 2013
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
$1.7M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
acquired
acquired · San Francisco, California
Investors in latest funding
Other: Andreessen Horowitz , Kleiner Perkins , New Enterprise Associates
Latest tracked event: Acquisition (November 2017). It is shown separately because it is not counted as disclosed equity funding.
Overview
Swiftype provided hosted site search and enterprise search-as-a-service — crawl websites and documents to deliver relevant search results via embeddable widgets and APIs. Y Combinator alumni company raised seed from Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and NEA in 2013. Elastic (ELK stack company) acquired Swiftype in November 2017 for approximately $186M to expand beyond log analytics into site search.
Why Swiftype is interesting
Y Combinator search layer — a16z seed with Kleiner and NEA before Elastic $186M acquisition.
Product & use cases
Swiftype crawled websites and indexed content for customizable site search — used by media companies, ecommerce, and docs sites needing better search than default CMS plugins.
- Website site search replacement
- Enterprise document search
- Ecommerce product discovery
- Media site content search
Key facts
- Elastic acquisition (Nov 2017): ~$186M — TechCrunch
- Seed (Aug 2013): $1.7M from a16z, Kleiner, NEA
- Hosted site search SaaS
- YC alumni company
Funding history (newest first)
Acquisition
2017-11 ~$186M- Elastic (lead)
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/07/elastic-acquires-swiftype/
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Competitive landscape
Edge: Easy embed vs building Solr/Elasticsearch internally for marketing sites.
Site search SaaS consolidated — Algolia won independent path; Swiftype sold to Elastic for ELK ecosystem expansion into customer-facing search.
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Algolia direct
Hosted search API leader; remained independent.
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Elasticsearch incumbent
Acquirer; self-hosted alternative.
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Google Custom Search adjacent
Free/low-cost alternative with ads.
Notable stories
- Swiftype made site search a SaaS upsell for marketing teams who couldn't configure Elasticsearch themselves.
- Elastic bought Swiftype to enter customer-facing search market beyond developer log analytics.
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