Stacey Tara

curious person, dreamer, and tryer ✨
taking care of people and operations at Exa.

[Stacey Tara @hellostaceytara]

@ExaAILabs just raised our series C 🚀

I joined as employee 12 when we had no processes and no playbook. We're 100+ people now and somehow it still feels like day one.

Most interesting thing i've been part of - grateful for this team.

Btw, I’m hiring a People Ops - dm me 🤍

[Stacey Tara @hellostaceytara]

There are two types of CEOs in the world. Here at @ExaAILabs, we get to work with the rare kind.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Exa is what I trust for all my agents. We use it at YC. We use it in all my OpenClaw and Hermes Agents. There is no other option that is as fast, as reliable, and as complete.

When your agents need to search the web, accept no substitutes.

[Will Bryk @WilliamBryk]

Excited to announce we raised 250M led by a16z at a 2.2B valuation.

The past 5 years have been a wild ride. Here's where we're going:

[Jeffrey Wang @jeffzwang]

Exa raised $250M at a $2.2B valuation, led by a16z, to continue organizing the web for agents:

- Exa now serves search to Cursor, Cognition, Openrouter, 5000+ other companies, 500k+ developers
- We’re SOTA in many important verticals (code, companies, people, news, more very soon)
- We make agents smarter and cheaper by returning 90% less text with little to no tradeoff in RAG quality
- We’re building out web agents that are Pareto optimal on price x performance x latency, possible because we own our search stack fully end to end

We used to tell candidates that without innovation in search, we may live in a world where we have both AGI and fake news. Funnily enough, I think that we’ve now been living in such a world for quite some time. With this funding, we should be able to dramatically improve the state of information in society.

🚀🚀🚀

[Stacey Tara @hellostaceytara]

@ExaAILabs GO EXA 🎉🎉🎉

[Stacey Tara @hellostaceytara]

THE news!! 🚀🚀🚀

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

We raised $250M in Series C funding at a $2.2B valuation, led by a16z.

Exa is a search lab organizing the web's data for agents.

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

We're excited to partner with Google to offer Grounding With Exa inside of Gemini models!

Using Exa's agent-first search, Gemini models can now access billions of websites, technical docs, papers, people, companies, and more.

10^18🤝10^100

[Will Bryk @WilliamBryk]

Agents can now decide which tools to use and pay themselves. So the best product for agents wins.

In this case, the agent chose Exa for web retrieval.

[Stacey Tara @hellostaceytara]

tearing up, love these people sm💙

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

We're excited to partner with @coinbase to enable agents to natively pay for web search, via x402!

x402 is an open protocol that enables agents to pay via HTTP, governed by the Linux Foundation. When an Exa API request is made without an API key, Exa now returns a 402 status code with payment information that an agent can act on.

[Stacey Tara @hellostaceytara]

OMG!!

[Will Bryk @WilliamBryk]

Puppies are coming to the Exa office.

We strongly believe that puppies searching for tennis balls will spark conversation about embeddings, rerankers, and new retrieval architectures.

If you're an ML researcher (or a puppy), come April 12th, link below👇

[Stacey Tara @hellostaceytara]

@ExaAILabs I’ve been waiting for this!!! ❤️‍🔥

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

Introducing Exa Monitors - your agent’s radar for the web

Exa is a search engine built from scratch, and today we're exposing our "update" layer. Simply define what to find and how often - Monitors will return any new information, via webhook.

[Will Bryk @WilliamBryk]

Exa is launching a Singapore office focused on web-scale infrastructure!

The Google/Bing engineers who built the first generation of web infra from scratch haven't done it for decades.

We're doing it again for the next generation of search. This will need to be at bigger scale -- exabytes of data, higher standard for quality, built from scratch for AI -- and it will be a global effort.

[Ishan Goswami @TheIshanGoswami]

We booked three IMAX theatres and we are hosting a Project Hail Mary movie party for you all!

If you are in SF, come join us

Link below 👇

[Will Bryk @WilliamBryk]

We booked a whole IMAX theater in SF for the premiere of "Project Hail Mary".

We have room for 250 people. Join to see how to save the world from impending doom, link below 👇

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

We optimized Exa Deep for cost and speed.

Under the hood, an agent decomposes every search into a plan with multiple rounds of parallel sub-searches. Sub-searches use our <200ms Exa Instant endpoint to reduce latency.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Integrating Exa web search with Claude Code is wild. In plan mode say: I want to use it. Brainstorm where the agents use it and how. Exit plan mode. It’s done. Enter API key.

Agents can search the web. It’s insane.

[Stacey Tara @hellostaceytara]

maybe exa will help you find your soulmate? 💙

[Jeffrey Wang @jeffzwang]

We made Valentine's Vectors, an AI app that finds people similar to you from the web :)

Uses Exa search, try it here - https://t.co/vSgLB3OlP0