Peec AI
AI Search Analytics for Marketing Teams
Website: https://peec.ai/
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Peec AI |
| Tagline | AI Search Analytics for Marketing Teams |
| Headquarters | Berlin, Germany |
| Founded | 2024 |
| Stage | Series A |
| Business Model | SaaS |
| Industry | Marketing Analytics |
| Technology | AI / Machine Learning |
| Geography | Western Europe |
| Growth Profile | Venture Scale |
| Founding Team | Co-Founders (3) |
| Funding Label | Series A |
| Total Disclosed | ~$29.1M [Tracxn, Nov 2025] |
Links
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- Website: https://peec.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/peec-ai/
- Documentation: https://docs.peec.ai/intro-to-peec-ai
- Careers: https://peec.ai/careers
Executive Summary
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Peec AI is a Berlin-based SaaS platform that helps marketing teams measure and improve how their brands appear inside answers generated by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude, a category increasingly referred to as Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). The company was founded in 2024 by Marius Meiners, Tobias Siwonia, and Daniel Drabo out of Antler's Berlin Winter 2024 cohort, and it has moved unusually quickly: total disclosed funding now stands at roughly $29.1M across pre-seed, seed, and a $21M Series A closed in November 2025 [Tracxn, Nov 2025] [TechCrunch, Nov 2025]. The product tracks brand visibility across generative engines, benchmarks share of voice against named competitors, and surfaces the source citations that influence model outputs [Peec AI]. Investor backing skews toward European growth specialists with strong consumer and SaaS pedigrees, including 20VC Fund, Singular, Combination VC, identity.vc, S20, and Foreword VC [Tracxn, Nov 2025]. Founder Marius Meiners has publicly stated the company reached more than $4M in ARR within roughly ten months of launch [YouTube Marius Meiners, 2025], a pace consistent with the company's own claim of being in "the top 1% of startups in terms of growth" [Peec AI]. Over the next 12 to 18 months the questions worth tracking are whether Peec can move upmarket from agency and mid-market marketing teams into enterprise procurement cycles, whether GEO consolidates into a standalone software category or gets absorbed into incumbent SEO suites, and how durable visibility metrics remain as the underlying LLM providers continue changing how they cite and rank sources.
Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Confirmed by TechCrunch, Tracxn, and the company's own published statements.
Taxonomy Snapshot
| Axis | Value |
|---|---|
| Stage | Series A |
| Business Model | SaaS (subscription, usage-tied to tracked prompts) |
| Industry / Vertical | Marketing analytics / GEO |
| Technology Type | AI / Machine Learning, data analytics |
| Geography | Western Europe (Berlin HQ) |
| Growth Profile | Venture Scale |
| Founding Team | Three co-founders, Antler Berlin alumni |
| Funding | ~$29.1M disclosed across three rounds |
Company Overview
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Peec AI was incorporated in Berlin in 2024 after its three founders, Marius Meiners, Tobias Siwonia, and Daniel Drabo, met through Antler's Berlin-based Winter 2024 cohort [Startup Intros]. The thesis they converged on was that consumer search behavior was migrating from keyword queries on Google to conversational queries inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude, and that brands lacked any equivalent of the analytics stack (Google Search Console, Ahrefs, Semrush) they had relied on for two decades of SEO [TechCrunch, Nov 2025].
The company moved through three financing events inside roughly seven months of going public with the product. A pre-seed of approximately $1.8M was reported in April 2025 [EU-Startups, Jul 2025], followed by a $5.2M seed in July 2025 led by Harry Stebbings' 20VC Fund [Nordic 9], and a $21M Series A in November 2025 that brought total disclosed capital to about $29.1M [Tracxn, Nov 2025]. TechCrunch's coverage of the Series A described Peec as "one of Europe's hottest startups" in the emerging AI search category [TechCrunch, Nov 2025]. The company states on its careers page that it is currently around 50 people and growing, with capital raised from "top-tier investors" [Peec AI].
Key publicly disclosed milestones include the launch of the core analytics product in early 2025, the seed round led by 20VC in July 2025, the public launch of an "Actions" feature for filtering visibility by model, topic, country, and campaign tags [Peec AI], a public pricing reset described in the company's "Pricing update: More value for everyone" post [Peec AI], the Series A in November 2025, and the inclusion of one of its founders in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe Media and Marketing 2026 list [Forbes, Apr 2026].
Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Confirmed by TechCrunch, Tracxn, Crunchbase, and the company's own blog.
Product and Technology
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Peec AI's core product is a web application that lets a marketing team define a set of prompts (commercial and transactional queries it cares about), then runs those prompts on a recurring basis against the major generative engines and records how the brand and its competitors are mentioned, cited, and ranked inside the model's answer [Peec AI] [PUBLIC]. The platform supports analysis across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini as headline integrations [Peec AI] [PUBLIC], with Claude also referenced in third-party listings [startups.gallery] [PUBLIC]. Outputs include visibility scores over time, competitor benchmarking, and a "source gap analysis" that identifies which third-party domains the models are pulling from when answering a given prompt, so marketers can target those sources for placement [Peec AI] [PUBLIC].
The pricing model is usage-tied rather than seat-based. The Starter plan is listed at €85 per month for 50 tracked prompts, three AI models, one project, unlimited users, and daily tracking [aipeekaboo.com, 2026] [PUBLIC]. Higher tiers add per-prompt discounts and dedicated support, and tracking across additional countries or languages does not incur extra charges; pricing scales with prompt volume rather than geographic coverage [Peec AI] [PUBLIC]. Annual billing carries a 15% discount [Peec AI] [PUBLIC]. A recent "Actions" release added filters by model, topic, country, and campaign tag, suggesting the product is moving toward more granular workflow integration rather than only dashboard reporting [Peec AI] [PUBLIC].
The underlying technology stack is not disclosed publicly in detail. Based on the product's behavior (recurring prompt execution, citation parsing, longitudinal storage of model outputs), the architecture plausibly involves orchestrated API calls to the major LLM providers, a parsing layer that extracts citations and brand mentions, and a time-series analytics layer (inferred from product description, not confirmed by the company) [MIXED]. The company is hiring engineers in Berlin and runs a relocation program for international hires [Peec AI] [PUBLIC].
Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Product features and pricing confirmed by Peec AI's own site and a third-party pricing aggregator; technology stack inferences are flagged.
Market Research and Opportunity
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The market matters now because the substrate of consumer and B2B discovery is shifting in real time from keyword search to conversational AI, and brands have effectively no measurement layer for that new substrate.
No named third-party analyst report sizing the GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) software category specifically was located in the cited research, so this section uses adjacent and analogous public markets to triangulate. The most directly comparable public market is SEO software, which Peec is implicitly positioned to either complement or eventually displace. TechCrunch's framing of the Series A is the strongest demand signal in the cited record: it explicitly links Peec's growth to consumers "ditching Google for ChatGPT" and to product discovery moving onto generative surfaces [TechCrunch, Nov 2025]. The company's own framing reinforces this: "People are having conversations with AI instead of searching with keywords. This means visibility works differently now" [Peec AI].
| Sizing reference | Value | Source |
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| Peec AI total funding raised | ~$29.1M across 3 rounds | [Tracxn, Nov 2025] |
| Reported ARR (founder statement) | $4M+ within ~10 months of launch | [YouTube Marius Meiners, 2025] |
| Reported team size | ~50 people | [Peec AI] |
The analyst takeaway from the available numbers: investor willingness to deploy roughly $29M into a category where no public TAM report yet exists is itself the market signal. The size and velocity of the Series A, led against a backdrop of multiple competing entrants (AthenaHQ, Profound, Scrunch AI, SE Visible, Superlines), implies that institutional investors are pricing GEO as a category large enough to support several venture-scale outcomes, even without a named third-party TAM number on the table.
Demand drivers cited or directly implied by the research include: (1) measurable shifts in consumer query volume from Google to ChatGPT and Perplexity [TechCrunch, Nov 2025]; (2) the absence of native analytics tooling from the LLM providers themselves, which leaves an opening for an independent measurement layer [Peec AI]; (3) the maturation of marketing budgets that already fund SEO and PR teams who now need a defensible answer to "how do we appear in AI answers"; and (4) agency demand, evidenced by Peec offering a dedicated agency pricing page [Peec AI]. Adjacent and substitute markets include traditional SEO suites (Semrush, Ahrefs), brand monitoring tools (Brandwatch, Meltwater), and the in-house analytics that LLM providers may eventually ship themselves; the last of these is the most material substitution risk because it could compress the independent-measurement opportunity. Regulatory and macro forces are not yet acute in this category, though EU AI Act transparency obligations on large model providers could, over time, change what citation and source data is exposed to third parties like Peec.
Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Demand-side framing is well-cited; no named third-party TAM report for the GEO category was located in the source set.
Competitive Landscape
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Peec AI sits inside a young but already crowded GEO measurement category where roughly half a dozen well-funded entrants are racing to define the default analytics layer for AI search.
| Company | Positioning | Stage / Funding | Notable Differentiator | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peec AI | GEO analytics for marketing teams and agencies | Series A, ~$29.1M | Usage-based pricing tied to prompts; multi-model coverage including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude | [Tracxn, Nov 2025] [Peec AI] [PUBLIC] |
| Profound | AI search visibility platform | Venture-funded (US) | Early US enterprise traction in the category | [Crunchbase] [PUBLIC] |
| AthenaHQ | Brand visibility in AI answers | Early stage | Brand-monitoring framing | [Crunchbase] [PUBLIC] |
| Scrunch AI | AI search analytics | Early stage | Competitor named in structured facts | [Crunchbase] [PUBLIC] |
| SE Visible | AI search visibility tracking | Early stage | Competitor named in structured facts | [Crunchbase] [PUBLIC] |
| Superlines | GEO and AI search analytics | Early stage | Competitor named in structured facts | [Crunchbase] [PUBLIC] |
The segment-by-segment competitive map breaks into three groups. The first is the dedicated GEO challenger cohort that Peec belongs to: Profound, AthenaHQ, Scrunch AI, SE Visible, and Superlines, each building purpose-built analytics for AI answer engines. The second is the incumbent SEO suite, principally Semrush, Ahrefs, and Similarweb, which already own the marketer's daily workflow and have begun shipping AI-search modules on top of existing dashboards; their defensive advantage is distribution into hundreds of thousands of paying seats. The third is the LLM providers themselves (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity), who could in principle ship first-party analytics for brands appearing in their answers; they have not yet done so at scale.
Where Peec has a defensible edge today: capital and pace. The $21M Series A is among the larger disclosed rounds in this specific category in Europe, and the company's reported pace of $4M+ ARR in roughly ten months [YouTube Marius Meiners, 2025] suggests product-market fit ahead of most named European peers. The multi-model coverage (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude) and the source-gap analysis feature are the most concrete product differentiators in the cited material. The durability of that edge is mixed: capital is durable for roughly 24 to 36 months at current burn assumptions, but feature parity in this category is achievable on a quarter-by-quarter cadence, so the moat will need to come from data accumulation (longitudinal visibility data per brand and per prompt) and from distribution into agencies.
Where Peec is most exposed: incumbent distribution. If Semrush or Ahrefs ship a credible GEO module bundled into existing seats, the independent-tool buying decision becomes a harder sell to mid-market marketers. The second exposure is geographic: Profound and AthenaHQ are reportedly building a US enterprise base faster, and US enterprise marketing budgets remain the largest single pool in this category. The most plausible 18-month scenario: Peec wins if it converts its European agency channel into a defensible distribution moat and lands a first cohort of named enterprise logos before incumbents ship comparable modules. Peec loses ground if a US competitor closes a substantially larger Series B in 2026 and uses it to undercut on price into the same agency channel.
Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Competitor names confirmed by the structured facts; relative funding and traction comparisons are directional rather than precise.
Opportunity
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If consumer and B2B discovery genuinely shifts from keyword search to conversational AI over the next five years, the company that becomes the default measurement layer for that shift could be worth a meaningful fraction of what the SEO analytics category is worth today.
The headline opportunity. The single largest plausible outcome for Peec AI is to become the Google Analytics or Semrush of generative search: the standard dashboard that every marketing team, agency, and in-house brand manager opens to answer the question "how do we appear in AI answers, and how is that changing week over week." The cited evidence makes that outcome reachable rather than aspirational for three reasons. First, the category is real and funded: TechCrunch's framing of consumers shifting from Google to ChatGPT is the demand-side validation [TechCrunch, Nov 2025]. Second, Peec's reported pace, $4M+ ARR within roughly ten months of launch [YouTube Marius Meiners, 2025], is consistent with the early growth curves of category-defining SaaS analytics tools. Third, the absence of a first-party analytics layer from the LLM providers themselves leaves a structural opening for an independent measurement standard, similar to the opening Google left when it did not ship deep third-party SEO analytics inside Search Console.
Growth scenarios.
| Scenario | What happens | Catalyst | Why it's plausible |
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| Become the European GEO standard | Peec converts its Berlin base and agency pricing tier into the default GEO tool across European marketing agencies | A roster of named agency partnerships and a mid-market enterprise tier | $21M Series A capital and reported $4M+ ARR in 10 months suggest the GTM motion is already working [TechCrunch, Nov 2025] [YouTube Marius Meiners, 2025] |
| Land-and-expand into US enterprise | Peec opens a US presence and competes head-to-head with Profound and AthenaHQ for Fortune 1000 marketing teams | A US sales hire and a first cohort of named enterprise logos | Series A capital is sized for international expansion; relocation program signals talent ambition [Peec AI] |
| Become the data layer for agencies and consultancies | Peec's API becomes embedded inside the workflow of the major SEO and digital agencies as the GEO data source | An agency-focused API and white-label tier | Dedicated agency pricing page already exists [Peec AI] |
What compounding looks like. The flywheel in this category is longitudinal data. Every prompt Peec tracks for every customer adds another data point about how generative engines cite, rank, and surface brands over time, and that historical visibility data becomes more valuable the longer it accumulates because it allows benchmarking, anomaly detection, and predictive modeling that a new entrant cannot replicate by simply running the same prompts today. A second compounding loop is the agency channel: each agency that standardizes on Peec brings in dozens of underlying brand customers, and the agency itself becomes a switching-cost anchor. A third loop is source-gap analysis: as Peec maps which third-party domains feed which model answers, it accumulates a knowledge graph of the GEO citation web that is itself a defensible data asset.
The size of the win. The cleanest public comparable is the SEO analytics category. Semrush trades as a publicly listed company with a market capitalization in the low single-digit billions of dollars, and Ahrefs is a privately held business widely reported to generate hundreds of millions in annual revenue. If GEO matures into a category one-quarter the size of SEO analytics over the next five to seven years, and if Peec captures a meaningful share of the European segment plus a defensible US foothold, an outcome in the high hundreds of millions to low single-digit billions of dollars in enterprise value is conceivable (scenario, not a forecast). The downside scenario, in which GEO gets absorbed as a feature inside Semrush or Ahrefs, would compress the category and likely route Peec toward a strategic acquisition outcome rather than a standalone public company. Both scenarios are venture-returnable from the current funding base.
Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Scenarios are grounded in cited funding, ARR, and category framing; valuation comparables are directional and explicitly labelled as scenarios rather than forecasts.
Sources
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[Peec AI] Peec AI - AI Search Analytics for Marketing Teams | https://peec.ai/
[Peec AI] Welcome to Peec AI - Peec.ai Docs | https://docs.peec.ai/intro-to-peec-ai
[TechCrunch, Nov 2025] As consumers ditch Google for ChatGPT, Peec AI raises $21M to help brands adapt | https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/17/as-consumers-ditch-google-for-chatgpt-peec-ai-raises-21m-to-help-brands-adapt/
[Startup Intros] Peec AI: Funding, Team & Investors | https://startupintros.com/orgs/peec-ai
[Crunchbase] Peec AI - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/peec-ai
[Peec AI] We raised $21M Series A to help brands win in AI search | https://peec.ai/blog/we-raised-21m-series-a-to-help-brands-win-in-ai-search
[Peec AI] Careers at Peec AI | https://peec.ai/careers
[Tracxn, Nov 2025] Peec AI - 2025 Funding Rounds & List of Investors | https://tracxn.com/d/companies/peec-ai/__GI_FO8uxvVQx0mUWur5w1N6bN2IRPrMwDPBUUvg283U/funding-and-investors
[Forbes, Apr 2026] 30 Under 30 Europe Media & Marketing 2026 | https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexyork/2026/04/14/30-under-30-europe-media--marketing-2026-how-gen-ai-and-the-creator-economy-are-forging-the-next-frontier-of-media/
[EU-Startups, Jul 2025] Peec AI pre-seed coverage | https://www.eu-startups.com/
[Nordic 9] Peec AI funding profile | https://nordic9.com/
[YouTube Marius Meiners, 2025] Founder statement on $4M+ ARR in 10 months | https://www.youtube.com/
[aipeekaboo.com, 2026] Peec AI pricing breakdown | https://aipeekaboo.com/
[Peec AI] Pricing for Peec AI | https://peec.ai/pricing
[Peec AI] Introducing Actions | https://peec.ai/blog/introducing-actions
[Peec AI] A beginner's guide to source gap analysis in AI search | https://peec.ai/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-source-gap-analysis-in-ai-search
[Peec AI] Peec AI Relocation Program | https://peec.ai/careers/relocation
Articles about Peec AI
- Peec AI Wants Every Marketing Team Watching What ChatGPT Says About Their Brand — The Berlin startup hit $4M ARR in ten months selling visibility analytics for an index Google does not control.