{"id":143477,"date":"2025-11-16T21:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/143477\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:26:09","slug":"sakana-ai-takes-crown-as-japans-most-valuable-unicorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/143477\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakana AI takes crown as Japan&#8217;s most valuable unicorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20251114N sakana ai\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">With its latest round of fundraising, Sakana AI has become the biggest unlisted startup in Japan. (Nikkei montage)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nikkei staff writers<\/p>\n<p>November 17, 2025 05:04 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Artificial intelligence company Sakana AI has completed a funding round that pushed its value to\u00a0approximately 400 billion yen\u00a0 ($2.635 billion), marking a record for an unlisted Japanese startup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With its latest round of fundraising, Sakana AI has become the biggest unlisted startup in Japan. (Nikkei montage)\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,82282,61,60,10355,11337,82281,62056,80,4924,82283],"class_list":["post-143477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-crown","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-japans","tag-most","tag-sakana","tag-takes","tag-technology","tag-unicorn","tag-valuable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}