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Sacra

Bringing transparency to private markets so investors, founders, and employees can build on conviction.

Sacra delivers deeply researched insights on the private companies shaping tomorrow's markets. By surfacing the data, context, and operator perspective that are missing from private markets today, we help secondary buyers and sellers price equity accurately and unlock liquidity for the people building these businesses.

Private Markets, Angel and Secondary Investing

Bringing transparency to private markets so investors, founders, and employees can build on conviction. Sacra delivers deeply researched insights on the private companies shaping tomorrow's markets. By surfacing the data, context, and operator perspective that are missing from private markets today, we help secondary buyers and sellers price equity accurately and unlock liquidity for the people building these businesses.

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<ul><li>The once-open web that Google first indexed in the late 90s is fragmenting into a patchwork of walled gardens, with AI companies forging data partnerships to guarantee their ability to scrape the most valuable media and news content, from Conde Nast (OpenAI) to TIME (Perplexity) to Axel Springer (Microsoft) to Reddit (Google).</li><li>With every company launching AI apps based on proprietary data, AI-native search API companies like Exa (Lightspeed, $22M raised), Tavily (14K GitHub stars), Jina AI (Canaan Partners, $39M raised) and Perplexity have become a key component of the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) stack alongside vector databases like Pinecone (A16Z, $138M raised), enabling companies to supplement their data with data from the public web.</li><li>Our customers often bring their own LLM and prompt. We definitely think about those things too, but the vast amount of the value of our whole search system comes from the retrieval, not from the LLM.</li></ul>

The once-open web that Google first indexed in the late 90s is fragmenting into a patchwork of walled gardens, with AI companies forging data partnerships to guarantee their ability to scrape the most valuable media and news content, from Conde Nast (OpenAI) to TIME (Perplexity) to Axel Springer (Microsoft) to Reddit (Google).With every company launching AI apps based on proprietary data, AI-native search API companies like Exa (Lightspeed, $22M raised), Tavily (14K GitHub stars), Jina AI (Canaan Partners, $39M raised) and Perplexity have become a key component of the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) stack alongside vector databases like Pinecone (A16Z, $138M raised), enabling companies to supplement their data with data from the public web.Our customers often bring their own LLM and prompt. We definitely think about those things too, but the vast amount of the value of our whole search system comes from the retrieval, not from the LLM.

Will Bryk, CEO Of Exa, On Building Search For AI Agents