Exa raises $250M Series C at $2.2B — building web search for AI agents, not humans
Read this because A real bet on volume: CEO Will Bryk argues agent search demand will outgrow total human Google volume thousands of times over. If agents become the primary web client, the retrieval layer is infrastructure — and Exa builds it agent-first.
Exa raised $250M Series C at $2.2B, led by a16z — 3x its $700M mark last fall. AI-native search API (not a Google wrapper) with 5,000+ customers.