Exa
Search engine designed for AI — meaning-based web search optimized for AI agents and applications.
AI
📍 San Francisco, USA
Founded 2021
Current Valuation
$700M
as of 2025-Q3
PRIVATE
Exa is a meaning-based web search API designed specifically for AI applications and agents, returning semantically relevant results rather than keyword matches. Used by AI-agent builders and RAG application developers. Raised an $85M Series B led by Benchmark in September 2025 at a $700M valuation; revenue grew ~10x year-over-year to ~$10M ARR.
Company Profile
Est. Revenue
$10M (2025-Q3)
Last Round
Series B — $85M (Sep 2025) · Lead: Benchmark
Founders & Key People
Will BrykJeff Wang
Investors
Benchmark · Lightspeed Venture Partners · Y Combinator · Nvidia
Products
- Exa Search API
- Exa Websets
- Exa Crawl
Competitors
Perplexity API · Tavily · Brave Search API · You.com
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Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2025-Q3. Refreshed quarterly.