Exa raised $250 million in a Series C at a $2.2 billion valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz, reporting 400,000 developers and 5,000 company adopters for its AI agent search platform
Token usage grew 20x for agent-driven queries.
#214swyx🛬 SFO@SWYXbtw we did a bake off of Exa vs competitors and it took all of 1.5 hrs for the team to unanimously converge on exa lol.
so proud to see my former landlords crush it - time travel back to last year and listen to a pre pmf @WilliamBryk to understand how to spot companies on a generational tear
Jeffrey Wang@jeffzwangExa raised $250M at a $2.2B valuation, led by a16z, to continue organizing the web for agents: - Exa now serves search to Cursor, Cognition, Openrouter, 5000+ other companies, 500k+ developers - We’re SOTA in many important verticals (code, companies, people, news, more very soon) - We make agents smarter and cheaper by returning 90% less text with little to no tradeoff in RAG quality - We’re building out web agents that are Pareto optimal on price x performance x latency, possible because we own our search stack fully end to end We used to tell candidates that without innovation in search, we may live in a world where we have both AGI and fake news. Funnily enough, I think that we’ve now been living in such a world for quite some time. With this funding, we should be able to dramatically improve the state of information in society. 🚀🚀🚀
#214swyx🛬 SFO@SWYXpod link and more ctx
@sarahdingwang 🥳
Sarah Wang@sarahdingwangAgents will search the web more than humans this year. Soon it will be orders of magnitudes more. Nearly every meaningful AI workflow, from coding agents to research systems to enterprise copilots, depends on external information as a core input. For accurate and fast web search, leading AI companies and enterprises rely on @ExaAILabs. @WilliamBryk and @jeffzwang started building search from the ground up in their Harvard dorm. 5 years later they're becoming the default for developers (and agents) in the AI era. Thrilled to be leading Exa's Series C and to back Will and Jeff as they build perfect web search for the age of intelligent agents. More on why @JenniferHli @steph_zhang @JasonSCui and I invested in the comment link.
#730Keerthana Gopalakrishnan@KEERTHANPGCongrats @WilliamBryk and @jeffzwang
Exa@ExaAILabsWe raised $250M in Series C funding at a $2.2B valuation, led by a16z. Exa is a search lab organizing the web's data for agents.
#761Lisha@LISHALI88Congratulations @WilliamBryk @jeffzwang and team!!!! So lucky to have backed you in 2021. You've executed relentlessly on the vision since day one! So exciting to see @ExaAILabs crushing it!
Exa@ExaAILabsWe raised $250M in Series C funding at a $2.2B valuation, led by a16z. Exa is a search lab organizing the web's data for agents.
It’s been amazing watching this journey.
From metaphor systems to crashing on the company couch. Talking about A100s and rag talks.
Congrats team.
Exa@ExaAILabsWe raised $250M in Series C funding at a $2.2B valuation, led by a16z. Exa is a search lab organizing the web's data for agents.
#1582Will Bryk@WILLIAMBRYKExcited to announce we raised 250M led by a16z at a 2.2B valuation.
The past 5 years have been a wild ride. Here's where we're going:
Exa@ExaAILabsWe raised $250M in Series C funding at a $2.2B valuation, led by a16z. Exa is a search lab organizing the web's data for agents.
@WilliamBryk Congrats fellas
Will Bryk@WilliamBrykExcited to announce we raised 250M led by a16z at a 2.2B valuation. The past 5 years have been a wild ride. Here's where we're going:
#1774mickey friedman@MICKEYXFRIEDMANand just like that…ur a unicorn !
congrats @WilliamBryk and @jeffzwang u silly boys
Exa@ExaAILabsWe raised $250M in Series C funding at a $2.2B valuation, led by a16z. Exa is a search lab organizing the web's data for agents.
#1814Sarah Wang@SARAHDINGWANGAgents will search the web more than humans this year. Soon it will be orders of magnitudes more.
Nearly every meaningful AI workflow, from coding agents to research systems to enterprise copilots, depends on external information as a core input. For accurate and fast web search, leading AI companies and enterprises rely on @ExaAILabs.
@WilliamBryk and @jeffzwang started building search from the ground up in their Harvard dorm. 5 years later they're becoming the default for developers (and agents) in the AI era.
Thrilled to be leading Exa's Series C and to back Will and Jeff as they build perfect web search for the age of intelligent agents.
More on why @JenniferHli @steph_zhang @JasonSCui and I invested in the comment link.
Exa@ExaAILabsWe raised $250M in Series C funding at a $2.2B valuation, led by a16z. Exa is a search lab organizing the web's data for agents.
Sarah Wang@sarahdingwangAgents will search the web more than humans this year. Soon it will be orders of magnitudes more. Nearly every meaningful AI workflow, from coding agents to research systems to enterprise copilots, depends on external information as a core input. For accurate and fast web search, leading AI companies and enterprises rely on @ExaAILabs. @WilliamBryk and @jeffzwang started building search from the ground up in their Harvard dorm. 5 years later they're becoming the default for developers (and agents) in the AI era. Thrilled to be leading Exa's Series C and to back Will and Jeff as they build perfect web search for the age of intelligent agents. More on why @JenniferHli @steph_zhang @JasonSCui and I invested in the comment link.
#1924andrew gao@ITSANDREWGAOThis is when I knew @ExaAILabs was gonna be big
Still remember when it was Metaphor
Exa@ExaAILabsWe raised $250M in Series C funding at a $2.2B valuation, led by a16z. Exa is a search lab organizing the web's data for agents.