Ottawa company developing a vector and full-text search engine that keeps indexes on object storage and caches active data in memory and SSD, used as the retrieval layer for AI and search applications.
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Ottawa company developing a vector and full-text search engine that keeps indexes on object storage and caches active data in memory and SSD, used as the retrieval layer for AI and search applications.
Corporations Canada: turbopuffer Inc., CBCA corporation 1545640-1, incorporated 2023-10-19, registered office in Ottawa. Simon Eskildsen is sole director and majority ISC. ised-isde.canada.ca
Describes itself as "a Canadian, remote-first company" with an office at 222 Queen Street, Ottawa. It says it hosts 1T+ documents and serves 25k+ queries/s in production. turbopuffer.com
Notion migrated its search to turbopuffer in October 2024. turbopuffer says Notion now searches 10B+ documents on it, with an 80% cost reduction. turbopuffer.com
TELUS runs its Fuel iX generative AI platform on turbopuffer, with 300K+ namespaces and 200M+ documents, per turbopuffer's case study. turbopuffer.com
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Vector and full-text search database
Search engine with vector, full-text and hybrid search plus metadata filtering. Data is stored on object storage and a memory/SSD cache serves active data. The published limits list unlimited documents and namespaces globally.
Learn more SourceAnnounced rounds only, newest first. Undisclosed amounts are shown as undisclosed.
Dec 19, 2025
Investors: Lachy Groom, Thrive Capital
BetaKit reported that the Ottawa startup secured an undisclosed amount of funding from existing backer Lachy Groom and new investor Thrive Capital. It said clients include Anthropic, Atlassian, Cursor and Notion, and relayed CEO Simon Eskildsen's claim that sales grew tenfold and headcount fivefold in 2025.
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