Bear

Marketing Stack for AI Agents

usebear.ai

HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA

1-10

B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 30, 2026

Overview

Bear AI is a Y Combinator-backed B2B SaaS company focused on GEO / AI-search visibility: it helps brands track, analyze, and improve how they are mentioned or recommended in AI-generated answers. Public messaging is a bit split between a ‘real-work datasets for reliable agents’ homepage angle and a more detailed AI-search marketing stack on product pages.

Primary product

AI search visibility and generative engine optimization (GEO) platform

Founded

2025

Headquarters

527 Midvale Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90024, United States

Team size

Industry

Marketing technology

Sub-industry

Generative engine optimization (GEO) / AI search optimization

Offices

San Francisco, California, United States

Business model

B2B SaaS

subscription SaaS

self-serve + enterprise custom plans

free trial

Funding

Stage

Seed

Total raised

$500K

Latest round

Angel · Nov 2025

Angel

Nov 2025 · Incisive Ventures

Seed VC - II

Nov 2025

Convertible Note

Oct 2025

Seed VC

Jan 2025 · Y Combinator

People & investors

Leadership

Janak Sunil

Co-Founder & CEO

Siddhant Paliwal

Co-Founder & CTO

Investors

CEAS Investments

Eight Capital Management

Work & culture

Founder-led and fast-moving, with public hiring posts emphasizing in-person San Francisco roles, rapid shipping, and direct work with the founders.

Compensation

Public hiring posts say Bear pays well and hire in-person in San Francisco, but no public salary bands or formal compensation policy were found.

Product & market

Pricing

Subscription SaaS with a self-serve entry plan and a custom enterprise plan

Differentiators

—Granular source analysis that traces which articles and sites drive AI mentions
—An AI Search Score / visibility framework that scores brand presence across models
—Prompt-universe curation and multi-engine querying across major AI search surfaces
—Actionable optimization recommendations instead of monitoring-only dashboards
—Automated PR / outreach workflows to build citations on sources AI trusts
—Lead capture for visitors arriving from AI search
—Competitor benchmarking across AI-generated answers

Technology

PostHog

Google Analytics

Stripe

OpenAI

Anthropic

Google AI

GPT-5

Claude

Gemini

Perplexity

Customers

Browserbase

Wispr Flow

Cal.com

Blee

Competitors

Goodie AI

Scrunch AI

Profound

Evertune

Promptwatch

Peec AI

Scale & contact

janak@usebear.ai

Signals & risks

Other

Jul 2026

An external analysis claimed Bear had shifted away from the original visibility product and that the founders were focusing on Specific Labs; this was not confirmed by the company.

Source

Latest news

The Fall of AI Visibility Platforms: What Happened to Bear AI and Hall AI

Radarkit · Jul 2026

External analysis claiming Bear had shifted away from its original product and that the founders were focusing on Specific Labs.

Turning AI Mentions Into Traffic: Janak Sunil's Journey Building GEO Platform Bear

Every.io · Jun 2026

Founder profile describing Bear’s GEO positioning, actionable optimization workflow, and claims about customer traction and visibility gains.

Bear Launches: Get Recommended by AI Agents 🤖

Fondo · Feb 2026

Launch coverage highlighting Bear’s AI-agent recommendation use case, 60+ customer count, founders Janak Sunil and Siddhant Paliwal, and the company’s 7-day free trial.

This was long overdue. Bear AI is backed by CEAS Investments...

LinkedIn · Sep 2025

Janak Sunil said Bear closed funding in June and named CEAS Investments, Incisive Ventures, Y Combinator founders, and angels from DoorDash, eBay, and Brex among the backers.

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