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Scaling a decentralized search engine focused on privacy, transparency, and user empowerment.

• Privacy-first platform: No tracking, no data collection, ensuring total user anonymity.
• Strong traction: 13M+ monthly searches and 150K monthly active users, with 40,000+ decentralized nodes.
• Strategic acquisition: Expansion into ed-tech through Scout.click and new B2B opportunities.
• AI-driven innovation: Developing proprietary AI search tools, including PreGPT II and unbiased result summarization.
• Experienced leadership: Led by a veteran founder and supported by venture capital backing.

Presearch is raising funds to scale its decentralized, privacy-first search engine, designed to provide users with unbiased search results free from tracking, surveillance, or data collection. The platform leverages blockchain technology and operates a network of over 40,000 community-run nodes, ensuring anonymity and security for its users. With current traction of over 13 million monthly searches and 150,000 monthly active users, Presearch is positioned to expand its market presence by onboarding new advertisers, enhancing its AI capabilities, and improving user experience. The company’s recent acquisition of Scout.click opens up additional growth opportunities in the education technology sector.

Funds raised will support key initiatives, including scaling user acquisition efforts, enhancing advertiser tools, developing proprietary AI-driven search features, and launching advanced decentralized search functionalities. Presearch’s focus is on addressing the increasing demand for transparent, non-profiling search alternatives amid rising concerns over digital privacy and regulatory pressure on mainstream search engines. Backed by venture capital and recognized in programs like Nvidia Inception, the company has demonstrated early success and is poised to disrupt the traditional search engine landscape with its community-driven model and hyper-privacy features.

Company Info

Presearch is a decentralized, privacy-first search engine leveraging blockchain technology and community nodes to provide anonymous, unbiased search experiences.

Presearch is a decentralized, privacy-focused search engine designed to offer users an alternative to mainstream search platforms. Operating on a network of over 40,000 community-run nodes, Presearch anonymizes every search and eliminates tracking and data collection, ensuring that users’ information remains private. The platform supports features such as decentralized AI (PreGPT II), tracking-free maps, and unbiased search results without surveillance-based targeting. Presearch has a monthly active user base of 150,000, processes over 12 million searches per month, and is actively scaling through user retention initiatives, advertiser expansion, and AI enhancements. Recent efforts include the acquisition of Scout.click to enter the education technology space and participation in the Nvidia Inception Innovation Program.

The company’s revenue model includes recurring and one-time sources, with a projected $750,000 in revenue for 2025. Presearch differentiates itself in the competitive search landscape by prioritizing user privacy and decentralization. Its long-term roadmap focuses on further development of AI-first decentralized search capabilities, expansion of its advertiser base, and integration of advanced features like crowdranking. The company is backed by venture capital and supported by experienced leadership, including executives with backgrounds in blockchain, AI, and search technologies. Presearch’s ultimate goal is to disrupt traditional search monopolies and offer a transparent, community-driven search experience.