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    3. Exa Labs Inc.

    Exa Labs Inc.

    Exa is an applied AI research lab building a perfect search engine designed specifically for AI agents to organize human knowledge.

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    At a Glance

    2Tools Listed
    6Products
    110Tool Views
    6Capabilities
    Discussions
    San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
    2021Est.
    75Employees
    $361MRaised
    Focus Areas
    Search and Discovery
    API Integration Platforms
    Web Research
    MCP Servers
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    Latest News
    Exa raises $250M Series C to build the search engine for AIsMay 20, 2026
    Exa raises $85M Series B led by BenchmarkSep 3, 2025
    Markets
    • AI Startups
    • Enterprises
    • Developers
    • Private Equity
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    Exa

    AI Web Search API for Developers

    Search & DiscoveryAPI IntegrationsWeb Research

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    Latest News

    05/20/2026

    Exa raises $250M Series C to build the search engine for AIs

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    09/03/2025

    Exa raises $85M Series B led by Benchmark

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    07/23/2026

    SOTA Search Over Academic Publications

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    06/16/2026

    Introducing Exa Agent

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    Products & Services

    6
    Exa Search

    Neural search API that retrieves web results based on semantic meaning rather than keywords.

    Exa Instant

    Ultra-fast search tool for agents with sub-180ms latency.

    Exa Agent

    Autonomous search agent capable of multi-step research and reasoning.

    Exa Connect

    Unified API to access structured data from providers like ZoomInfo, Crunchbase, and Similarweb.

    Market Position

    Exa positions itself as the only search engine designed for AIs rather than humans, emphasizing speed, semantic accuracy, and tool-ready outputs over traditional keyword matching.

    Leadership

    Founders

    WB

    Will Bryk

    CEO & Co-founder. Previously one of the first engineers at Cresta. Studied CS and Physics at Harvard.

    JW

    Jeffrey Wang

    Co-founder. Previously built data and web infrastructure at Plaid for three years. Studied CS and Philosophy at Harvard.

    Executive Team

    WB

    Will Bryk

    CEO & Co-founder

    Previously at Cresta; Harvard CS/Physics graduate.

    JW

    Jeffrey Wang

    Co-founder

    Previously at Plaid; Harvard CS/Philosophy graduate.

    Board of Directors

    PF
    Peter Fenton
    Board Member (Benchmark)

    Founding Story

    Started in 2021 as Metaphor, the founders believed the world needed a search engine better than Google's keyword-based approach, focusing on neural search before the AI boom.

    Business Model

    Revenue Model

    Usage-based API pricing (per request/page) and subscription tiers.

    Pricing Tiers

    Free Tier
    Free

    $10 credits per month, web search tool calls, webpage text and highlights.

    Search
    $7/1k requests

    Real-time search with token efficient page contents.

    Deep Search
    $12/1k requests

    Multi-step agent workflows and answers with structured outputs.

    Agent
    $0.012–$1.00/run

    Asynchronous deep research runs with citations.

    Enterprise
    Custom

    High volume, custom index, Zero Data Retention (ZDR), SLAs.

    Private

    Target Markets

    Industries & Segments
    • AI Startups
    • Enterprises
    • Developers
    • Private Equity
    • Consulting Firms
    Use Cases
    • Coding agents
    • News monitoring
    • Sales intelligence
    • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
    • Market research
    • Academic publication search
    Notable Customers
    • Cursor
    • Cognition
    • HubSpot
    • Monday.com

    Quick Facts

    Headquarters
    San Francisco, California, United States
    Founded
    2021
    Entity Type
    Inc.
    Employees
    75
    Total Funding
    $361M
    Investors
    Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark
    Office Locations
    San Francisco
    Singapore

    Funding History

    Series C$250M
    May 20, 2026
    $2.2B valuation
    Andreessen Horowitz
    Series B$85M
    September 3, 2025
    $700M valuation
    Benchmark
    Series A$22M
    July 16, 2024
    Lightspeed Venture Partners

    History & Milestones

    May 20, 2026

    Raised $250M Series C funding led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2.2B valuation.

    September 3, 2025

    Raised $85M Series B funding led by Benchmark at a $700M valuation.

    February 2024

    Rebranded from Metaphor to Exa (exa.ai).

    July 16, 2024

    Raised $22M Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

    November 2022

    Launched first search engine (Metaphor).

    Key Capabilities

    6
    Neural/Semantic Search
    Sub-180ms Latency (Exa Instant)
    Zero Data Retention (ZDR)
    Multi-step Agent Workflows
    Full Page Content Extraction
    Custom Classifiers

    Integrations & Partnerships

    Platform Integrations

    • API
    • MCP Server
    • Python SDK
    • JavaScript SDK

    Key Partnerships

    Similarweb
    Crunchbase
    ZoomInfo

    Connect

    Website
    exa.ai
    GitHub
    exa-labs
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    AI Topics

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    Exa Labs Inc. focuses on these topics:

    Search and Discovery(1)
    API Integration Platforms(1)
    Web Research(2)
    MCP Servers(1)
    Agent Frameworks(1)
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