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Sakana AI

Defence · Tokyo, Japan · Founded 2023

Tokyo-based AI lab building orchestration models that command a pool of LLMs

Talent graph

Sakana AI's talent

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Employees mapped 240 incl. 1 AI specialist
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 9 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia Hidden — book a demo alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

30 investors on Sakana AI's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 2 investors entered at this stage
Series A 17 investors entered at this stage
Fujitsu
ITOCHU
Mizuho
JAFCO
Miyako Capital
NEA
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking
Nec
SBI Group
500 Global
TransLink Capital
KDDI Open Innovation Fund
Nomura
Dai-ichi Life Insurance
Global Brain Corporation
Nvidia
Series B+ 11 investors entered at this stage
Factorial Capital
Fundomo
Mouro Capital
Macquarie
Shikoku Electric Power
Alphabet | Google
Ora Global
MPower Partners
Mitsubishi Electric
In-Q-Tel
Geodesic Capital

Ownership

Who owns Sakana AI

Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.

60.9% Founders
  • Lux Capital 7.5%

Some investors are hidden on this public profile. See the full cap table on Dealroom →

Global footprint

Where Sakana AI has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
12 countries with
team presence
🇯🇵 Japan78%
🇺🇸 United States11.1%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom4.6%
🇵🇹 Portugal2.1%
🇩🇪 Germany1.5%
Top 5 of 12 shown
Web traffic by country
1.8M monthly visits
across markets
🇯🇵 Japan16.5%
🇮🇳 India13.9%
🇺🇸 United States11%
🇮🇩 Indonesia3.6%
🏳️ Korea3.2%
Top 5 markets shown

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Sakana AI

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Sakana AI on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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