On the 20th of May, 2022, ZincSearch, a search engine firm, announced that it had received USD 3.6 million as seed funding. The seed funding round was led by Nexus Venture Partners and saw participation from companies like Dell Technologies capital, Cardinal Ventures, and Secure Octane. In addition, some other tech leaders like Anand Babu Periasamy, Rob Skillington, Anshu Sharma, Balaji Parimi, Alex Gallegos, Luke Kim, Dan Pinto and Awais Nemat participated in this round. In addition, the managing director of Nexus Venture Partners, Abishek Sharma, is said to join the board of Directors at ZincSearch.
The idea behind creating ZincSearch is based on the concept of setting up and running a search engine. The company aims to make these two processes uncomplicated for individuals and organizations. According to the company, setting up a modern search engine should not be time-consuming and should not consume excessive resources. There should be minimal expenses required for such operations, and the result should provide optimal performance.
Zinc can be installed on any device or server within a couple of minutes using a single binary with no dependencies. The platform developed by the company is based on modern technology like Go and VueJS. These technologies allow for rapid development, iteration and simple operations, which lower the resource usage of customers. As a result, Zinc makes use of fewer resources than its competitors.
The founder of ZincSearch, Prabhat Sharma has stated that almost every company he has interacted with has complained about their log storage complexities and the costs associated with them. He elaborated on the need to have easy-to-use, modern yet cost-effective alternatives for countering this issue. ZincSearch tackles this problem whilst improving log search and issues surrounding analytics. Most enterprises today depend on expensive hosting services like Elasticsearch. However, this system was created over a decade ago and has become outdated. With Zinc, companies do not have to face this issue as it provides innovative solutions to all their search engine related problems.
About Nexus Venture Partners
Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm established by ex-entrepreneurs passionate about enterprise technology and consumer internet. The firm was founded in 2006 and is based in California. The founders of this Nexus Venture Partners are Naren Gupta, Survivor Sujan and Sandeep Singhal. So far, it has made over 302 investments and 19 diversity investments.
About Zinc Search
The San Francisco based company was founded by Prabhat Sharma (founder and CEO) and Hengfei Yang (Founding engineer). The company brings together cloud, Kubernetes, engineering expertise, and DevOps to provide solutions to the issues relating to observability in search engines at a low cost. The company was founded in 2022 and, since then, has made great strides in search engine optimization. It has come up with an open-source, easy to use search engine that tackles the issues of observability. One of this platform's best features is the minimal use of infrastructure, resources, and human resources. As a result, the software is easy to use and saves time. It also can be scaled horizontally and provides stateless servers.
