AI search and research companies · exa.ai
Exa valuation, funding and revenue
Exa sells a web search API built for AI agents and developers, used by companies such as Cursor, Cognition and HubSpot to ground their AI products in web results.
Figures checked October 2026. Each one links to its source.
Total funding
$250M+
Latest round only; no public total found.
Revenue
Not disclosed
Website visits
930K
Estimated, August 2026. +10% on the month before.
What is Exa's valuation?
Exa was valued at $2.2B in May 2026, the company said (exa.ai). A private company's valuation is set when it raises money, so it can be well out of date between rounds.
That puts Exa at number 34 of the 51 AI unicorns we profile, ranked by valuation.
How much funding has Exa raised?
No public source states Exa's total funding. The rounds below are the ones we could confirm; there may be others. The latest round was a $250M Series C in May 2026, led by Andreessen Horowitz.
What is Exa's revenue?
Exa has not published revenue or ARR, and we found no reliable press report of it.
ARR (annual recurring revenue) is the yearly value of current subscriptions; annualized revenue scales a recent month or quarter up to a year. Neither is audited revenue. See what ARR is.
Exa website traffic
Estimated monthly visits to exa.ai across all channels, rounded. +22% over three months to August 2026.
- May 2026760K
- June 2026760K
- July 2026850K
- August 2026930K
Exa competitors
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About Exa
- Exa sells a web search API built for AI agents and developers, used by companies such as Cursor, Cognition and HubSpot to ground their AI products in web results. exa.ai
- Founded in 2021. exa.ai
- Founders: Will Bryk, Jeff Wang. exa.ai
- Exa states it powers search for over 400,000 developers. exa.ai
- Series B participants named by Exa: Lightspeed, Y Combinator and NVentures (NVIDIA); Benchmark's Peter Fenton joined the board. exa.ai
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Sources
Checked on 9 October 2026. Traffic figures are third-party estimates, not company-reported numbers.