Exa Secures $85M Series B for AI Search Infrastructure

Exa, the AI-native search company, has raised $85 million in Series B funding led by Benchmark. The round included participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm), and existing investor Y Combinator.\n\nThe company, founded by Harvard classmates Will Bryk and Jeff Wang, provides embeddings-based search APIs that power AI applications at companies including Cursor, Databricks, and OpenRouter. Exa's valuation following this round is $700 million.