Search upstart challenges Googlewith help from international array of investors.

Hakia said it has raised $11 million in its first phase of funding from a panoply of investors scattered across the globe who were attracted by the company’s semantic search technology, which the upstart aims to make superior to Google’s search engine.

The company is currently beta testing the search engine at its web site and previewed it at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco last week.