About
At Kagi, we envision a friendly internet where you can explore, learn, and interact with confidence and ease. Our mission is to humanize the web, making it more accessible, and centered around your needs. We're driven by our core purpose: to inform and educate, empowering you with knowledge and understanding in your digital journey. Every product we build reflects this commitment, designed without ads, trackers, or distractions, and completely free from surveillance.
Kagi (pronounced kah-gee) was founded in 2018 by Vladimir Prelovac in Palo Alto, CA. Our advisory board includes Raghu Murthi, Dr. Norman Winarsky, Stephen Wolfram and Rory Sutherland.
Kagi was bootstrapped from 2018 to 2023 with ~$3M from the founder. In 2023, we raised $670K from our users in our first external fundraise, followed by $1.88M in 2024, again from our users, bringing our user-investors to 93.
We launched in June 2022 and maintain real-time growth and usage statistics at kagi.com/stats.
In early 2024, Kagi became a Public Benefit Corporation.
Kagi has been covered by:
- The Verge in The future of search isn't Google — and it's $10 a month
- Ars Technica in Dumping Google's enshittified search for Kagi
- Daring Fireball in Another periodic suggestion to try, just try, switching to Kagi for search
Selected interviews with our founder and CEO, Vladimir Prelovac:
Read about Kagi's origin story and The age of PageRank is over editorial, which serves as our manifesto.
We want to bring a friendly internet - one that has your best interest in mind - into homes, workplaces, public service and educational institutions worldwide (coming soon!). We're actively hiring.
Kagi has two core products: Kagi Search, a fast, private search engine, and Orion Browser, a fast, zero-telemetry, WebKit-based browser.
But beyond them, there is a whole eco-system of user-friendly products being created. PLease feel free to explore:
We also have a number of open-source projects and developer APIs.
We hope our work impacts your life in some small way for the better. Thank you for your interest in being part of this!
"With Kagi and Orion, we're striving to build better ways to experience the web, ways that are safe yet fun for everyone, including my own kids."
—Vladimir Prelovac
Contact
Kagi Inc.
548 Market St
PMB 477946
San Francisco, CA 94104-5401
Email: vlad@kagi.com (CEO)
Email: support@kagi.com (Support)
Community
Join and engage with the Kagi user community through our Discord server, social media and feedback forums.
What does "Kagi" mean?
The word "kagi" means "key" in Japanese.
Kagi is pronounced kah-gee. You can listen to the pronunciation.
Kagi Search logo
More Kagi assets are available on the Kagi Assets page.
People sometimes ask: why does Kagi have a "g" logo rather than a "k"?
Our brand designer insisted the Kagi logo is "anchored" in the letter "g," and we had to agree. Besides, we can't let Google own the letter "g" too, can we? 😉
Orion Browser logo
More Orion assets are available on the Orion Press Kit page.
Who is Kagi's mascot?
We simply call him "Doggo" for now. He's adorable! We have more assets available.
