Will Bryk

Will Bryk

Will Bryk

Co-founder and CEO · Exa

Bio

Will Bryk is building the next generation of search. As co-founder and CEO of Exa, he's chasing perfect search: an engine that gives every AI the highest quality information in the world, retrievable in milliseconds. Exa powers search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, OpenRouter, and over 400,000 developers, and recently raised a $250M Series C at a $2.2B valuation from a16z, Benchmark, Lightspeed, Nvidia, and Y Combinator. Will grew up in New York City and studied CS and physics at Harvard, where he led the robotics club and dove into ML research. He founded Exa on one conviction: information is civilizational infrastructure, and if every AI can reach the best information, so can every human.

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Will Bryk is building Exa, a search engine redesigned from the ground up for AI agents using neural embeddings rather than keyword matching — he won "best speaker" at the AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 and recently closed a $250M Series C at a $2.2B valuation, making his session a rare chance to hear directly from the founder who is betting that search infrastructure will become the foundational layer of the agent economy.

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