Exa Secures $85M Series B for AI Search Infrastructure
Exa secures $85 million in Series B funding led by Benchmark, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, NVentures, and existing investor Y Combinator. Founded by Harvard classmates Will Bryk and Jeff Wang, the company provides embeddings-based search APIs used by Cursor, Databricks, and OpenRouter, and reaches a $700 million valuation after the round.
Nvidia backs Exa, an AI search startup, in an $85 million Series B led by Benchmark, with NVentures and Lightspeed also participating. Exa's infrastructure includes a cluster of 144 H200 GPUs and 3,456 CPUs, and handles more than 100 queries per second at under 450 milliseconds of latency.
Sep 2025 · SiliconANGLENews article
Exa Raises $22M to Build the Search Engine for AI
Exa raises $22 million in seed and Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from NVentures and Y Combinator. The AI research lab trains embedding models that convert web pages into embeddings for search, and its technology powers AI writing assistants, VC sourcing tools, and AI research teams.
