Marqo
About
Multimodal vector search.
Marqo is an end-to-end, multimodal vector search engine.
With Marqo, users can easily implement AI-powered search, leveraging the latest machine learning models. With offices in Melbourne, London, and San-Francisco Marqo brings together a global team of experts across AI and machine learning, search analytics and engineering, to develop the next generation of search.
- Location
- Melbourne
- Website
- Visit website
- Employees
- 11-50
- Industry
- Artificial Intelligence
The Matchstiq Top 2025
Snapshot of Marqo
*Search that actually understands you.
Marqo is on a mission to revolutionise the way we find information.
Built by two former Amazon engineers, Marqo is pioneering vector search, a smarter, AI-native alternative to traditional keyword search that understands meaning, not just matches.
Whether it's powering the search bar in your favourite online store or helping teams surface buried insights, Marqo’s open-source platform makes semantic and multimodal search (text, image, or both) accessible to any business. It’s not just faster and more accurate, it’s intuitive. The kind of search that feels like it knows what you meant.
Launched in 2022, the Melbourne-based startup has raised over $17 million USD from leading investors including Blackbird Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Creator Fund, and January Capital. Early adopters like Redbubble and Temple & Webster are already seeing major performance gains and happier customers.
Why work at Marqo
Big ambition, small team energy
With roots in some of the world’s most advanced machine learning teams (think Amazon Robotics), Marqo’s founding team knows what it takes to build world-class infrastructure. But they’ve kept the culture lean, fast, and curious, ideal for anyone who wants to shape the future of search from the ground up.
Solving real, hairy problems Search is broken. We’re here to fix it. Marqo gives engineers and ML researchers the chance to solve problems that affect millions of people daily, how we discover, explore, and make sense of the web.
Open source + open minds Marqo believes great technology should be accessible. The platform is open-source, and the culture is open-door. It’s a place where good ideas rise fast, and learning is baked into the rhythm of work.
Smarter search isn’t just possible. It’s inevitable. Marqo is building the infrastructure to power it.
Working with us
Values
From first principles
We solve problems by working back from first principles.
Customer obsession
Customers of Marqo are the center of Marqo. We go above and beyond to ensure their current and future needs are met.
Ownership
We value taking ownership. Marqoians never say “it’s not my job”.
Bias for action
Moving fast with conviction is critical to our momentum. Two-way door decisions should not delay anyone and one-way door decisions should be made as efficiently as possible.
Quality
Marqo has high standards across the company, from code to content as well as from hiring to helping the community.