Company record
Exa
Updated November 2, 2026 · Presspool
Exa offers search over a large index of public web and private information, delivered through APIs built for AI agents. exa.ai
Funding
- $250M Series C, announced May 20, 2026. Led by Andreessen Horowitz. Sources: exa.ai.
Whether AI names Exa
- On the AI infrastructure map: named or cited in 5 of 50 answers to Presspool's AI infrastructure questions on November 2, 2026 (ChatGPT 1 of 8, Claude 1 of 8, Perplexity 1 of 8, Gemini 1 of 8, Copilot 0 of 8, Google AI Mode 1 of 6, Google AI Overviews 0 of 4). See the map. Of the 54 companies on the map, Exa ranked joint 15th by answers naming or citing it in that sample. The other companies AI names most on AI infrastructure questions: Lambda (17 of 50), Crusoe (13 of 50), Together AI (11 of 50), Fireworks AI (10 of 50), Groq (10 of 50), LangChain (10 of 50) and Modal (10 of 50). Most often named in the same answers: Firecrawl (4), Parallel Web Systems (4), LangChain (1).
- Machine Relations Index: Cited in 1 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026.
Week by week
Answers that named or cited Exa in each weekly sample of Presspool's AI infrastructure questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week.
| Week of | AI infrastructure |
|---|---|
| September 21, 2026 | 3 of 39 |
| October 5, 2026 | 5 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 3 of 50 |
| October 19, 2026 | 5 of 56 |
| October 26, 2026 | 4 of 53 |
| November 2, 2026 | 5 of 50 |
Sources AI cites when it names Exa
Presspool asked its 8 AI infrastructure questions on November 2, 2026; 5 of the 50 answers named or cited Exa, on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Mode. The sites those 5 answers cited most:
- brightdata.com: 3 of 5 answers
- exa.ai: 3 of 5 answers
- parallel.ai: 3 of 5 answers
- cbinsights.com: 2 of 5 answers
- coresignal.com: 2 of 5 answers
- firecrawl.dev: 2 of 5 answers
- tavily.com: 2 of 5 answers
- agentatlas.dev: 1 of 5 answers
- agentscamp.com: 1 of 5 answers
- agentstackdirectory.com: 1 of 5 answers
Related records
Also on the AI infrastructure map: Arcade, Baseten, Braintrust, Clockwork.io, Crusoe, Daytona, DeepInfra, Encord, fal, Fiddler AI, Firecrawl, Fireworks AI and 41 more on the map.
Andreessen Horowitz, which led this round, also led Eka Robotics ($150M Series A, October 20, 2026), TypeSafe AI ($870 million Series A, October 9, 2026), Ghost ($11 million Seed, October 5, 2026), Armadin ($255.5 million Series B, October 1, 2026), Aleph ($7.5 million Pre-seed, September 30, 2026) and EliseAI ($350 million, round type not disclosed, September 29, 2026). 3 more of its rounds are on its page.