• Citi Ventures invested in Exa in a private financing round to back real-time search infrastructure for AI applications.
• Exa develops an AI-native search engine and web retrieval API that delivers structured, verifiable web data for LLMs and agents.
• The platform uses natural-language retrieval and embedding-based indexing to return cited, token-dense context via an API.
• Citi Ventures cited enterprise demand for trusted, current information beyond model training data as a key investment driver.
• Exa positions its product as an alternative to legacy search tools built for human use rather than AI workflows.

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