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Meet Marqo
Marqo is on a mission to build retrieval technology that powers AI, search and recommendations for the next decade and beyond. Today, Marqo powers thousands of applications, from cutting-edge startups to large-scale enterprises.
Our Story
Working with visual search and robotics at Amazon, we had to build new ways to do product discovery, and that very quickly converged on vector search. In robotics, we used multi-modal search to search through many of our images to identify if there were errant things like hoses and packages.
But, as powerful as vector search was, it took us a lot of time and effort to deploy it. We realized that vector search could be instrumental in realizing the full potential of AI in our day-to-day lives, but it had to be made easier for developers and enterprises. We saw a need to invent a platform that not only generated superior vector embeddings, but also empowered customers to build advanced search experiences within hours, not months. So, we started Marqo.
But, as powerful as vector search was, it took us a lot of time and effort to deploy it. We realized that vector search could be instrumental in realizing the full potential of AI in our day-to-day lives, but it had to be made easier for developers and enterprises. We saw a need to invent a platform that not only generated superior vector embeddings, but also empowered customers to build advanced search experiences within hours, not months. So, we started Marqo.
2021
Founded
Marqo is founded
2022
Marqo Engine Released
Marqo open source vector search engine released
2023
Seed funding
Seed funding, Marqo Cloud becomes generally available
2024
Series A
Marqo receives Series A funding
Our products
Marqo Cloud
Build transformative search, recommendation and RAG applications with an end-to-end cloud platform.
Marqo Open Source
End-to-end vector search engine for both text and images. Vector generation, storage and retrieval are handled out of the box through a single API.
Marqo Ecommerce
Use AI to enhance your existing ecommerce product search to increase relevance, order size, and conversion.
Research
The Impacts of Data, Ordering, and Intrinsic Dimensionality on Recall in Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds
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Binarize CLIP for Multimodal Retrieval and Ranking
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Matryoshka Representation Learning with CLIP for Multimodal Retrieval and Ranking
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Designing Interfaces for Multimodal Vector Search Applications
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...a simple developer API and an enterprise-grade platform.
The world of search is fast moving from ‘keyword-based’ to ‘natural language-based’ thanks to wide adoption of products such as ChatGPT. Marqo’s mission is to bring this transformational technology to every company in the world through a simple developer API and an enterprise-grade platform.
Hemant Mohapatra
Partner at Lightspeed
Individual Investors
Aidan Gomez
CEO and co-founder of Cohere
Ivan Zhang
Cofounder at Cohere
Rob Skillington
Co-Founder & CTO at Chronosphere
Meet Marqo, an open source vector search engine for AI applications
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Ex-Amazon Duo’s Marqo Raises Funding to Build AI Search Tech
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Melbourne AI startup set for global expansion after $12.5 million raise
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