Captain

Captain

Give AI agents accurate knowledge search that scales

San Francisco
2 employees
B2B
Seed · $500K

About Captain

Captain delivers the most accurate file search engine built for AI agents. We’ll index data from the sources folks already use like S3, SharePoint, and Google Drive, and easily scale multimodal, petabyte-level content search. We’re the Snowflake for Unstructured Data.

Captain tops the Open-RAG-Benchmark with over 20% higher accuracy than standard RAG pipelines. We achieve this through robust data processing techniques like embedding normalization across modalities, ensuring that representations cluster by semantic content rather than data type.

Company details

Team Size2
LocationSan Francisco
IndustryB2B

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator
HHandshake Ventures
EEdison Capital
aa16z Scout
SSTAN

Founders

Edgar Babajanyan

Edgar Babajanyan

CTO @ Captain | Published AI NLP Researcher | Built OCR engines @ Boar's Head | Scaled high-performance RAG pipelines for the past 4 years | Built a Cross Region L2 Datacenter

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Lewis Polansky

Lewis Polansky

CEO at Captain (YC W26). Previously founded CyberSpace (CTF hacking group), recognized by U.S. Congress for leadership in community software projects. Dropped out of Purdue University.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.