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Sakana AI

Defence · Tokyo, Japan · Founded 2023 Unicorn

An R&D company on a quest to create a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence

Valuation
$2.5–5B
Latest valuation · 2026
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Headcount
100–500
Current team size
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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
SBI Group
Dai-ichi Life Insurance
JAFCO
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking
Nvidia
Nec
Nomura
Fujitsu
Miyako Capital
Global Brain Corporation
ITOCHU
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
NEA
Mizuho
KDDI Open Innovation Fund
500 Global
TransLink Capital
Series B+ 11 investors entered at this stage
Shikoku Electric Power
Alphabet | Google
Ora Global
In-Q-Tel
Mouro Capital
MPower Partners
Mitsubishi Electric
Macquarie
Factorial Capital
Fundomo
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

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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
360K monthly visits
across markets
🇯🇵 Japan66.3%
🇺🇸 United States6.9%
🇮🇳 India3%
🏳️ Korea2.8%
🏳️ Republic of1.4%
Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of Sakana AI's talent

Dealroom maps Sakana AI's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

9 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
1 AI specialistincl. 1 core researchers
188 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
AI Talentlive Score hidden — book a demo
Engineering Score hidden — book a demo
Product Score hidden — book a demo
Go-to-market Score hidden — book a demo
Leadership Score hidden — book a demo
Research Score hidden — book a demo
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

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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