Andrey Styskin left Yandex, passed through Amazon AGI, and surfaced in 2026 with Keenable and a $26 million seed round
Asked:
“who moved from yandex to start a new company this year”
Three independent sources — TechCrunch, Accel, and StorageNewsletter — each name the same person, role, cofounder, product, and funding. Keenable emerged from stealth on August 25, 2026, the date it announced funding; the rows do not establish that 2026 is the year the company was first founded.
At Yandex, Styskin rose to CEO of Search and led the company’s search, AI, and cloud organization.
accel.comAfter Yandex he worked at Amazon’s AGI group before co-founding Keenable with Matthias Petri.
techcrunch.comKeenable is building an independent web-search index and retrieval infrastructure for AI agents rather than human users; TechCrunch reports an index of more than 100 billion documents.
techcrunch.comThe $26 million seed round, led by Accel, was reported again on September 7, 2026 by StorageNewsletter.
storagenewsletter.com
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Corroboration set: 3 rows from 3 independent hosts (TechCrunch, Accel, StorageNewsletter), each naming Andrey Styskin, his Yandex role, cofounder Matthias Petri, the product, and the funding round; dates are announcement or publication dates in 2026 where the source gives one. No URL backs more than one third of rows. Nothing was cut.