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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Meilisearch.\n\nThomas Payet is co-founder and COO of Meilisearch, the open-source search engine. He announced its first public beta in December 2019, after a year in which the founding team won a Louis Vuitton search hackathon, and in April 2022 announced Meilisearch Cloud, the company's first hosted service.\n\n## What Thomas builds\n\n- [Meilisearch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/meilisearch.md), graded A, 78.8/100, in Retrieval \u0026 vector search. Open-source search engine from Meili SAS in Paris with typo-tolerant keyword search, vector and hybrid search, filters and facets. It runs self-hosted or as Meilisearch Cloud, with a REST API, SDKs and an experimental built-in MCP route. Co-founder, Meilisearch, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Clément Renault](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/clement-renault/), Co-founder, Meilisearch\n- [Quentin de Quelen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/quentin-de-quelen/), Co-founder, Meilisearch\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [LocalGlobe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/localglobe/)\n- [Seedcamp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/seedcamp/)\n- [Kima Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kima-ventures/)\n- [Tiny.vc](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tiny-vc/)\n- [CRV](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/crv/)\n- [Mango Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mango-capital/)\n- [Felicis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/felicis/)\n- [Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/guillermo-rauch-ceo-of-vercel/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Thomas Payet?\n\nThomas Payet is co-founder and COO of Meilisearch, the open-source search engine. He announced its first public beta in December 2019, after a year in which the founding team won a Louis Vuitton search hackathon, and in April 2022 announced Meilisearch Cloud, the company's first hosted service.\n\n### What does Meilisearch make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Meilisearch from Meilisearch. Open-source search engine from Meili SAS in Paris with typo-tolerant keyword search, vector and hybrid search, filters and facets. It runs self-hosted or as Meilisearch Cloud, with a REST API, SDKs and an experimental built-in MCP route.\n\n### Who has invested in Meilisearch?\n\nThe sources our research read name LocalGlobe, Seedcamp, Kima Ventures, Tiny.vc, CRV, Mango Capital, Felicis and Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel.\n\n### How are Thomas's tools graded?\n\nMeilisearch is graded A, 78.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/enterprise-license\n- https://www.meilisearch.com/careers\n- https://www.fame.so/connect/guest/clement-renault\n- https://kubecon.meilisearch.com/blog/the-history-of-meilisearch-cloud\n- https://fr.linkedin.com/in/kerollmops\n- https://www.meilisearch.com/\n- https://www.meilisearch.com/service-level-agreement\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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