--- title: Liner raises $36.1M to take its evidence-first AI search... description: South Korean AI search startup Liner raised $36.1M in a Series C round led by LB Investment, bringing total funding to $64.3M. The company has 14 million... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/liner-raises-36-1m-to-take-its-evidence-first-ai-search-to-enterprise-customers-b6rjdgtyo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Liner raises $36.1M to take its evidence-first AI search to enterprise customers | daily.dev og:description: South Korean AI search startup Liner raised $36.1M in a Series C round led by LB Investment, bringing total funding to $64.3M. The company has 14 million... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/liner-raises-36-1m-to-take-its-evidence-first-ai-search-to-enterprise-customers-b6rjdgtyo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/b6RjDGtYO.png og:image:alt: Liner raises $36.1M to take its evidence-first AI search to enterprise customers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Liner raises $36.1M to take its evidence-first AI search to enterprise customers **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary South Korean AI search startup Liner raised $36.1M in a Series C round led by LB Investment, bringing total funding to $64.3M. The company has 14 million registered users across 220 countries and claims a 95.3 score on OpenAI's SimpleQA benchmark. Rather than building foundation models, Liner focuses on the citation layer between user questions and AI answers, grounding responses in traceable sources. Its enterprise push includes integration into HUMAIN ONE, the Saudi government-backed AI platform, positioning it to pursue corporate and government customers who need verifiable AI outputs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is Liner and how much funding has it raised in its Series C round? Liner is a South Korean AI search startup that raised $36.1 million in a Series C round led by LB Investment, bringing its total capital raised to roughly $64.3 million. Returning investors included InterVest, Atinum Investment and CJ Investment, while new participants included Korea Development Bank, KB Securities, Daishin Securities, STIC Ventures and Helios Private Equity. _daily.dev tracks funding moves like this for developers watching the AI search space._ ### How did Liner's AI search score on OpenAI's SimpleQA benchmark? Liner reported a score of 95.3 on OpenAI's SimpleQA benchmark, which evaluates answers to short, fact-seeking questions, and claims it outperformed GPT-4 in search-response generation. Rather than building its own foundation model, Liner focuses on the citation layer that finds source material and grounds AI answers in traceable evidence. _Developers comparing AI search and retrieval tools can follow benchmark results on daily.dev._ ### What is HUMAIN ONE and why does it matter for Liner's enterprise strategy? HUMAIN ONE is an enterprise AI platform developed by HUMAIN, a company backed by the Saudi Arabian government. Liner's AI search technology has been integrated into HUMAIN ONE after being benchmarked against other global technology providers, giving Liner a reference deployment in a setting where data control, source quality and explainability are critical requirements. _daily.dev helps teams evaluating enterprise AI platform deployments stay on top of vendor moves._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100 million fundraise](https://daily.dev/posts/an-ai-agent-startup-just-let-its-agent-run-its-100-million-fundraise-fwjmlsioh) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments](https://daily.dev/posts/hiddenlayer-nabs-100m-as-enterprises-rush-to-secure-their-ai-deployments-t3siamul9) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Linq raises $20M to enable AI assistants to live within messaging apps](https://daily.dev/posts/linq-raises-20m-to-enable-ai-assistants-to-live-within-messaging-apps-v1euij2qr) · TechCrunch · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#startup](https://daily.dev/tags/startup), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#venture-capital](https://daily.dev/tags/venture-capital), [#ai-search](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-search) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/liner-raises-36-1m-to-take-its-evidence-first-ai-search-to-enterprise-customers-b6rjdgtyo) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Liner raises $36.1M to take its evidence-first AI search to enterprise customers","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/liner-raises-36-1m-to-take-its-evidence-first-ai-search-to-enterprise-customers-b6rjdgtyo","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/liner-raises-36-1m-to-take-its-evidence-first-ai-search-to-enterprise-customers-b6rjdgtyo"},"datePublished":"2026-08-25T11:44:10.553Z","dateModified":"2026-08-25T11:44:34.908Z","description":"South Korean AI search startup Liner raised $36.1M in a Series C round led by LB Investment, bringing total funding to $64.3M. 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