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Founded in 2012, Algolia is a privately held company created by developers, veterans in the fields of algorithms, search engines and text mining. We develop a search-as-a-service API to help developers deliver an intuitive search-as-you-type experience in their applications and websites.

We enable super fast and relevant search experiences in no time with our worldwide infrastructure deployed in 14 different regions (28 different datacenters). In one click, you can distribute your search on several regions with our [Distributed Search Network](https://www.algolia.com/dsn) infrastructure.

Algolia is backed by international VC funds: Y Combinator (W14), Accel Partners, Storm ventures, Index Ventures, Alven Capital, 500 startups and Point Nine Capital.
