Exa
Neural web search API built for AI agents
Exa operates an embeddings-based web index offered as search, contents, answer, agent and monitoring APIs built for AI agents rather than people, priced on usage without seats. It reports more than 400,000 developers across over 5,000 companies, and its finance exposure comes mostly through research agents built on the API.
GAII take
Zero-data-retention mode eases compliance review; compare recall on niche financial sources against conventional search APIs before standardizing.
Zero-data-retention mode eases compliance review; compare recall on niche financial sources against conventional search APIs before standardizing.
- Website
- exa.ai
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Founded
- 2021
- Company type
- Scale-up
- Funding
- Series C+
- Latest round
- Series C, $250m, May 2026 (a16z)
- Status
- Active — Valued at $2.2bn at the May 2026 Series C. Prior rounds: $85m Series B led by Benchmark in September 2025 and $22m Series A led by Lightspeed in July 2024. Offe
- Also in
- Enterprise AI Platforms & Infrastructure
- Buyer
- Hedge fundsAsset managers
- Asset class
- Multi-asset
- Workflow
- Research & diligence
- Ai capability
- Search & RAGAgents & automation
- Delivery
- API / data feed
GAII ID GAII-T0167 · Updated 2026-10-22 · Compiled from public sources for educational and informational purposes. Not investment advice.