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Sakana AI

Tokyo-based frontier AI R&D lab selling nature-inspired foundation models, AI agents and custom AI solutions to Japanese enterprises, banks, defense and the public sector.

Foundation models
ARR
$20M
as of Sep 2026
Employees
~100
as of Oct 2026
Valuation
$2.7B
135× ARR
ARR / employee
$200K
revenue efficiency
About Sakana AI

Sakana AI, founded in 2023 by David Ha, Llion Jones and Ren Ito, researches evolution- and collective-intelligence-based AI. Its work includes The AI Scientist, the Darwin Gödel Machine, multi-agent orchestration models and Namazu LLMs for Japan. It earns revenue from enterprise and public-sector AI solution contracts (e.g., MUFG, Daiwa Securities) and from user-facing products such as Sakana Chat, Marlin and Fugu. It raised a Series B in Nov 2025 at about a $2.6B valuation (reported $135M–$200M), followed by strategic investments from Google (Jan 2026), Citi (Feb 2026) and Mitsubishi Electric (Mar 2026). Total funding is reported at roughly $379M.

Investors · 30

LeadMitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG)Venture capital3 partners on file
Investor500 Emerging Europe (500 Global)Accelerator3 partners on file
InvestorCitiBank3 partners on file
InvestorDai-ichi Life InsuranceVenture capital1 partner on file
InvestorDatadog VenturesVenture capital3 partners on file
InvestorFactorial FundsVenture capital3 partners on file
InvestorFundomoVenture capital3 partners on file
InvestorGeodesic CapitalVenture capital15 partners on file
InvestorGlobal BrainVenture capital3 partners on file
InvestorGoogleCorporate15 partners on file
InvestorIn-Q-TelSovereign fund7 partners on file
InvestorItochu GroupVenture capital3 partners on file
InvestorJAFCO GroupVenture capital3 partners on file
InvestorKhosla VenturesVenture capital47 partners on file
InvestorLux CapitalVenture capital17 partners on file
InvestorMacquarie CapitalVenture capital3 partners on file
InvestorMitsubishi ElectricCorporate5 partners on file
InvestorMiyako CapitalVenture capital2 partners on file
InvestorMizuho Financial GroupBank3 partners on file
InvestorMouro CapitalVenture capital3 partners on file
InvestorMPower PartnersVenture capital
InvestorNEAVenture capital54 partners on file
InvestorNEC CorporationVenture capital3 partners on file
InvestorNvidiaCorporate14 partners on file
InvestorOra GlobalVenture capital
InvestorSalesforce VenturesCorporate18 partners on file
InvestorSBI GroupVenture capital1 partner on file
InvestorSTNet (Shikoku Electric Power Group)Venture capital
InvestorSumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)Venture capital3 partners on file
InvestorTranslink CapitalVenture capital
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