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Exa raises $250M Series C to build search engine for AI agents
Andreessen Horowitz led the $250 million Series C round for Exa, which powers AI agents like Cursor and Cognition's Devin.
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Andreessen Horowitz led the $250 million Series C round for Exa, which powers AI agents like Cursor and Cognition's Devin.
Default, which provides infrastructure for deploying AI agents across sales and marketing functions, secured a $20 million Series A round led by 8VC.
The Mountain View startup said its seed round was backed by Wing Venture Capital, NVP Capital, and Y Combinator, and it operates a data network spanning 100,000+ contributors and 500+ industry partners.
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The Seattle company raised $27 million in a Series A led by Glilot Capital, NFX, and SignalFire, and says its open-source project has 30.6k GitHub stars.
The Series B round, led by AVP and announced April 27, 2026, comes as Orkes pitches products spanning Orkes Cloud, agentic workflows, microservices orchestration and human-in-the-loop process automation.
Blackstone Innovations Investments led the financing announced April 25, 2026, while the company says it simplifies the data-to-insight process for organizations.
The Seattle-based app-native agent deployment platform says the round will help scale its open-source AG-UI protocol and embed AI agents directly inside applications.
Funding will enable Elastics to enhance its AI agents for automated trading and expand its prediction market platform.
The round, led by Abstract Ventures, includes SV Angel, Naval Ravikant, and others to build a new kind of computer.
Moneta Ventures led the round; funds will enhance AI capabilities to detect online narrative threats.
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DISHIO raises $2.5M seed announced on 2026-05-09.
Nova Intelligence raises $31.5M series_a announced on 2026-05-10.
Tekst raises $9.6M series_a with Elephant announced on 2026-05-07.
Treeline raises $25M series_a with a16z announced on 2026-03-31.
Orkes raises $60M series_b with AVP announced on 2026-05-10.
NeoCognition raises $40M seed announced on 2026-04-24.
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Hightouch raises $150M series_d with Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Bain Capital Ventures announced on 2026-05-10.
Vellum raises $25M Series A with Leaders Fund announced on 2026-05-07.