{"id":138425,"date":"2025-11-16T21:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/138425\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:23:10","slug":"sakana-ai-takes-crown-as-japans-most-valuable-unicorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/138425\/","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\/nz\/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":138426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,10808,16847,3025,111,139,69,94362,1120,145,8259,66754],"class_list":{"0":"post-138425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-crown","12":"tag-japans","13":"tag-most","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-sakana","18":"tag-takes","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-unicorn","21":"tag-valuable"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}