Exa Raises $250M at $2.2B Valuation While Google Commits $15B to Missouri Data Center
Exa raised $250M in Series C at a $2.2B valuation to build an AI agent search engine serving 5,000 companies and monitoring 500B URLs. Google committed $15B to expand its New Florence data center, securing over 1GW of new power capacity and adding 500MW of partnered energy output.
1. Exa Secures $250M Series C for AI Search
Exa closed a $250M Series C round at a $2.2B valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz. The startup’s in-house search engine serves over 5,000 companies and 400,000 developers, leveraging custom crawlers across 500 billion URLs and proprietary embedding models and vector databases to power AI agent queries.
2. Google Commits $15B to Missouri Data Center
Google announced a $15B investment in Missouri, including a new data center in New Florence. The buildout secures more than 1GW of additional power capacity and a partnership delivering 500MW of further energy, bolstering its cloud and AI infrastructure in the region.