{"id":384755,"date":"2025-11-17T07:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/384755\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T07:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:45:19","slug":"sakana-ai-takes-crown-as-japans-most-valuable-unicorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/384755\/","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.europesays.com\/us\/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 approximately 400 billion yen ($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":3,"featured_media":384756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,48632,183799,45868,183798,27704,158,4501,67,132,68,183800],"class_list":{"0":"post-384755","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-crown","11":"tag-japans","12":"tag-most","13":"tag-sakana","14":"tag-takes","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-unicorn","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-valuable"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115563929937755602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}