Exa
exa.ai
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$352M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$250M
Series C · May 2026 · 4 mo ago
Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
52
+7 posted in 30 days
Backers
6
Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz
The money's age
Fresh money
4 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
50/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 7
First role in Australia Head of Marketing, APJ
Jul 31
First role in United Kingdom Field Event Manager, EMEA
May 20
First executive search Head of Cloud Partnerships
May 20
Raised a round Series C $250M · led by Andreessen Horowitz · Exa
Sep 3, 2025
Raised a round Series B $85M · led by Benchmark · Exa
Feb 25, 2025
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Exa (YC S21) – embeddings search agent with >20x recall than Google
2024
Raised a round Series A $17M
Jun 2021
Went through Y Combinator
2021
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | May 2026 | $250M | Andreessen Horowitz lead | Exa |
| Series B | Sep 2025 | $85M | Benchmark lead | Exa |
| Series A | 2024 | $17M | — | exa.ai |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Will BrykCo-founder & CEO
Jeffrey WangCo-founder
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Y Combinator 
Andreessen Horowitz 
137 Ventures 
Felicis 
Lightspeed Venture Partners 
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How Exa hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Exa scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 23 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Exa builds a web search engine designed for AI applications and agents rather than for human readers, sold to developers and enterprises through APIs. It trained its own embedding-based search models and runs its own crawl that tracks more than 500 billion URLs, exposed through Search, Contents, Agent and Monitors APIs and Websets, a high-compute search product for lists of companies and people. Founded in 2021 in San Francisco under the name Metaphor, it serves more than 5,000 companies including Cursor, Cognition and HubSpot and raised a $250 million Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz in 2026.
News
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Exa Raises $250M Series C to Build the Search Engine for AIs
AI agents will search the web more than humans this year. Exa raises $250M Series C at a $2.2B valuation led by a16z to power all agents with the highest quality web search.
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How Search Quality Shapes RL Outcomes
Training search agents on Exa instead of a SERP baseline yields higher pass@k, faster, at lower cost.
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Exa and Google Partnership
Exa is now available on Google Cloud through Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform grounding and Gemini Enterprise's Agent Marketplace.
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Composing a Search Engine
How we built Canon, a search pipeline orchestrator for full control over our search engine as it scales in complexity.
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exa-d: Data Framework to Process the Web
How do you store and retrieve information from the web in a database? A deep dive into Exa's inhouse data processing framework.
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rbbydotdev (@rbbydotdev) on X
@ExaAILabs @ExaAILabs you violated my robots.txt by indexing my page, id like it taken down
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Introducing Exa's People Search Benchmarks
How we built and open-sourced a people search benchmark to measure retrieval quality across entity search.
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Use exa-code: Fast, efficient web context for coding agents
Introducing exa-code, the first web-scale context tool made for coding agents. Ground your agents with accurate information from millions of libraries, APIs, and SDKs.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Exa over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
47
Postings analysed
50
Stack modernity
89/100AI adopter
Languages
TypeScript10%
SQL8%
C++6%
Python6%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js4%
Flink2%
Playwright2%
PyTorch2%
Databases
ClickHouse4%
Delta Lake2%
Cloud & platforms
AWS6%
Azure4%
GCP4%
API Gateway2%
AI & ML
ChatGPT10%
Claude8%
LLM2%
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Full Exa tech stack
47 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$275k
Typical range
$98k – $400k
Open positions
52
33
Jobs
Intern
3%
Junior
27.3%
Middle
36.4%
Senior
9.1%
Architect
24.2%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 1 | $200k | $200k |
| Junior | 9 | $275k | $130k – $400k |
| Middle | 12 | $235k | $98k – $350k |
| Senior | 3 | $240k | $210k – $275k |
| Architect | 8 | $310k | $210k – $350k |
Highest paying role
Account Executive
$400k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Exa
By role, level and city, against the market · 52 jobs with pay
Products
Contents, Agent and Monitors APIs
APIs to fetch clean page contents, run multi-step research agents and monitor the web for new matching pages over time.
exa.ai
Websets
High-compute search that builds verified lists of entities such as companies or people matching complex criteria. Aimed at research, sales and recruiting teams.
exa.ai
Search API
Neural web search API for AI applications with sub-second latency and zero data retention. Returns links and page contents ready for LLM context.
exa.ai
People
Will Bryk
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founded Exa (originally Metaphor) in 2021 and leads the company as CEO.
Jeffrey Wang
Co-founder
Co-founded Exa with Will Bryk in 2021.
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data
Growth
Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
52
7 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
73 days
faster than 18% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Marketing
19%
HR
13% ▼
Sales
13% ▼
Solutions
13% ▲
Product
9%
AI/ML
6% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Sydney
Oct 2026
Added PyTorch to stack
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
5
Countries
4
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
37 open roles 23 posted in 90 days 32% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $286k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, HR, Sales
430 Shotwell Street, San Francisco, CA, 94110, US
New York
United States
Sales office
9 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $233k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, HR, Marketing
Singapore
Singapore
Engineering / R&D
5 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 60% engineering 50-200 est. staff $210k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, HR
London
United Kingdom
Sales office
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $251k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Solutions
Sydney
Australia
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $210k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing
Jobs
$180k – $350k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Cursor
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$180k – $350k per year • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Master's Degree • San Francisco
Cursor
PyTorch
Exa
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$155k – $275k per year • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • San Francisco
Exa
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$150k – $195k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Cursor
Exa
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
SOC 2
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$150k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • Singapore
Python
TypeScript
RAG
Exa
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$250k – $350k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Cursor
AI Agents
Exa
DevOps
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
SOC 2
Threat Modeling
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$100k – $200k per year • In office • Internship • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
Rust
C++
Cursor
Exa
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$180k – $350k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Cursor
Exa
DevOps
CI/CD
AWS
IAM
VPN
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
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$159k – $265k per year • In office • Full-Time • London
Python
TypeScript
RAG
Exa
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$180k – $275k per year • In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
SQL
ClickHouse
AI/ML
AI Agents
Exa
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Financials
Total raised
$352M
Latest round
Series C
Funding rounds
3
Investors
5
Funding rounds
Key Investors
Y Combinator
Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that provides seed funding to early-stage companies.
ycombinator.com
NVentures
NVentures is the venture capital arm of NVIDIA, investing in AI and accelerated computing startups.
nvidia.com
Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz is a Menlo Park venture capital firm investing in technology companies from seed to growth stage.
a16z.com
Benchmark
Benchmark is a San Francisco Bay Area venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology companies.
benchmark.com
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm investing in enterprise and consumer technology companies.
lsvp.com