Mintlify, a San Francisco-based documentation platform, announced on July 24, 2025, the acquisition of Trieve, a provider of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) infrastructure, to advance AI-powered knowledge retrieval. This acquisition enhances Mintlify’s ability to deliver fast, conversational, and contextual answers for clients like Anthropic, Cursor, and Zapier, integrating Trieve’s vector-based search and RAG capabilities. With over 4 million developers reached annually and $21 million raised in a 2024 Series A, Mintlify is poised to scale in the $67 billion RAG market, reducing search times by up to 50%, per company data.
Announced July 24, 2025: Mintlify acquires Trieve for RAG infrastructure.
Trieve’s tech reduces search times by 50% and improves answer accuracy by 40%.
Mintlify powers docs for 1,000+ companies, reaching 4M+ developers yearly.
Raised $21M in 2024 Series A led by a16z; Trieve raised $3.5M in 2024.
RAG market valued at $1.85B in 2025, projected to reach $67.42B by 2034.
Trieve team joins Mintlify to enhance AI-driven documentation solutions.
Mintlify’s acquisition of Trieve, announced on July 24, 2025, integrates Trieve’s RAG infrastructure, which combines dense vector semantic search and cross-encoder re-ranking, into Mintlify’s AI-native documentation platform. “This acquisition is an investment in our vision for transforming knowledge retrieval,” said CEO Han Wang. Trieve’s capabilities, powering 16,000+ search bars for clients like Mintlify and BillTrack50, enhance Mintlify’s AI assistant, launched in 2024, which supports conversational queries. Nick Khami, Trieve’s CEO, noted, “Mintlify’s commitment to developer experience makes this a natural fit.” The Trieve team joins Mintlify to scale fast, accurate, and context-rich answers across documentation.
Founded in 2022 by Han Wang and Hahnbee Lee, Mintlify powers documentation for over 1,000 companies, including Perplexity and Scale, with 11 employees and a $250 million valuation post-Series A. Its platform, handling 23 million monthly search and AI queries, uses the llms-full.txt format to optimize LLM parsing. Trieve, founded in 2023 with $3.5 million from Root Ventures and Y Combinator, enhances Mintlify’s scalability in the $1.85 billion RAG market, projected to grow to $67.42 billion by 2034 at a 49.12% CAGR. The acquisition follows Mintlify’s summer 2024 launch of RAG-powered search improvements, achieving 40% higher user engagement.
The RAG market faces challenges like data quality and integration complexity, with 60% of enterprises citing these as barriers, per 2025 reports. Posts on X from @handotdev and @skeptrune reflect excitement for the acquisition, emphasizing Trieve’s role in enhancing Mintlify’s search capabilities. Mintlify’s competitors, like Codeant AI and Swimm, focus on code documentation, but its RAG integration offers a broader edge. The acquisition aligns with trends like Perplexity’s Comet Browser, signaling a shift toward AI-driven interfaces, though some X users note concerns about RAG’s accuracy limitations. Mintlify’s prior collaboration with Trieve in 2024, yielding a 50% reduction in search times, sets a strong foundation for this move.
Mintlify’s acquisition of Trieve strengthens its leadership in AI-native documentation, empowering developers with faster, more accurate knowledge retrieval in a rapidly evolving market.
Mintlify helps teams create and manage beautiful, AI-native documentation with minimal engineering effort. Built for developers and collaborators alike, it offers both a docs-as-code and visual editing workflow, AI-powered writing, and a conversational assistant grounded in your content. Trusted by leaders like Anthropic, Cursor, and Zapier.
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