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  "markdown": "Founder and COO; board chair.\n\nKim O. Johansen is a founder and the COO of Vespa.ai, the search and vector database company that Yahoo spun out as an independent business in 2023. He has more than 20 years of experience managing the development of large distributed systems.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimomar/\n\n## What Kim builds\n\n- [Vespa](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vespa.md), graded BB, 70/100, in Retrieval \u0026 vector search. Vespa is an open-source search engine from Vespa.ai AS for vector, text and hybrid retrieval with ranking, run self-hosted or on Vespa Cloud. Agents reach it through HTTP query and document APIs, the Vespa CLI and a Python client. Founder and COO; board chair, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Frode Lundgren](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/frode-lundgren/), Founder and CTO\n- [Jon Bratseth](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jon-bratseth/), Founder and CEO; architect and main contributor\n- [Kim O. Johansen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/kim-o-johansen/), Co-founder, Vespa.ai AS\n- [Kristian Aune](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/kristian-aune/), Founder and Head of Customer Success\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Blossom Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/blossom-capital/)\n- [Yahoo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/yahoo/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Kim Omar Johansen?\n\nKim O. Johansen is a founder and the COO of Vespa.ai, the search and vector database company that Yahoo spun out as an independent business in 2023. He has more than 20 years of experience managing the development of large distributed systems.\n\n### What does Vespa.ai AS make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Vespa from Vespa.ai AS. Vespa is an open-source search engine from Vespa.ai AS for vector, text and hybrid retrieval with ranking, run self-hosted or on Vespa Cloud. Agents reach it through HTTP query and document APIs, the Vespa CLI and a Python client.\n\n### Who has invested in Vespa.ai AS?\n\nThe sources our research read name Blossom Capital and Yahoo.\n\n### How are Kim's tools graded?\n\nVespa is graded BB, 70 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://vespa.ai/company/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-bratseth-6a6585/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimomar/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/frodelu/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/kraune/\n- https://vespa.ai/\n- https://vespa.ai/support/\n- https://vespa.ai/get-in-touch/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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