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Khoj

Y Combinator Summer 2023 · Creative & content AI · North America

What it sells

AI for humans

Business model breakdown

Workflow: what inputs become what output?

Products: Open Paper (read and organize research papers with verifiable citations), Pipali (desktop AI co-worker that runs tasks on your computer), Khoj app (open-source AI second brain with agents and scheduled automations).

Distribution: how it reaches customers

Open source on GitHub with hosted app (app.khoj.dev), Discord community, blog.

Funding history and coverage

Round dateStageAmountInvestorsSource
—Y Combinator Summer 2023—Y Combinatorycombinator.com

Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.

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