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Lapis

Fall 2025 · Active

The Most Accurate AI Search Analytics Platform

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2025

Team size: 4

About

Lapis is the most accurate AI search analytics platform. We help businesses understand the full buyer journey on AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity, from discovery to purchase. We do this through a custom RL environment that's fine-tuned for AI assistant prompts.

Founders

  • Varunram GaneshFounder

    CEO of Lapis. Previously, I was Head of Growth at Warp (YC W23) where I built the sales and marketing functions from scratch and took Warp from 0 to $2.5M. I am an engineer and I did bitcoin research (wrote code) at the MIT Media Lab for two and a half years.

  • Sai SurbeheraCo Founder

    CTO at Lapis. Previously, I was an MLE at Walmart Tech where I built the recall and reranking algorithm for Walmart Search.