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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

IPO Outlookprivate

Is Exa going public?
No. Exa is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Exa's valuation in 2026?
Exa is valued at $700M as of 2025-Q3, set by its Series B ($85M, Sep 2025). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Exa filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Exa.
Who are Exa's investors?
Exa's investors include Benchmark, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Nvidia.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
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

CEO
Will Bryk
Founded
2021
HQ
San Francisco, USA
Employees
~30
Total Raised
$100M
Est. Revenue
$10M (2025-Q3)
Growth
~1010% YoY
Last Round
Series B — $85M (Sep 2025) · Lead: Benchmark
IPO Status
private

Fundraising Status

Series B · $85M · 11 mo ago
privateTotal raised $100M

Secondary Market

Implied price / share
$57.9
Last round price / share
$36.73
vs last round
+57.6%
Open interest
7
Last round price vs secondary price
Last round vs current secondary price per share$36.73Last round$57.90Current
Secondary price return by period
Secondary market period returns3-month+13.4%6-month+27.4%1-year+65.4%All-time+65.4%
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Series B$85MSep 2025Benchmark—

Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML

Open models
0
verified organization
Downloads (30d)
0
across all models
Followers
33
Attributed to Hugging Face organization "Exa AI" as of 2026-08-19. Open-weights footprint only — closed-model usage is not publicly measurable. Verify on Hugging Face ↗

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
● First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
50
via ashby
Product-build share
44%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
balanced build + GTM — 44% builders vs 56% go-to-market/G&A — scaling both sides.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month50Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionEngineering15Sales & GTM9Marketing7Ops & People5Research5Other5Design2Finance & Strategy1Support1
■ product-building   ■ go-to-market / G&A
Brand DesignerSoftware Engineer, BackendForward Deployed EngineerSoftware Engineer, Web CrawlingResearch, MLResearch Engineer, Generalist
Counted from Exa's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

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.