AI-powered answer engine and search browser company.
Around 1,413 people on the team.
Perplexity AI, the AI answer engine and search browser company, has raised $936M across five rounds from a backer base that spans strategic and financial investors including NVIDIA, IVP, New Enterprise Associates, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Databricks. With a connection score of 60, it sits in a frontier-AI cluster bound together by shared capital, overlapping most with Uniphore (four shared investors) and, with two shared investors each, with Anthropic, Wayve, VAST Data, Twelve Labs, Sana Labs, World Labs, and DeepL. That mix of foundation-model peers (Anthropic, World Labs), AI infrastructure (VAST Data, Databricks as a backer), and applied AI companies (Uniphore, Wayve, DeepL) places it at the center of a broad applied and infrastructure AI funding network. The company employs 1,413 people, concentrated in the San Francisco Bay Area (25%), with smaller hubs in London (10%) and New York (10%).
| Date | Round | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | Series D Plus Perplexity reportedly raised $200 million at a $20 billion valuation, two months after its round at $18 billion. | $200M |
| Jul 2025 | Growth Perplexity AI raised $100M at an $18B valuation, with investors including Nvidia, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, NEA and IVP. | $100M |
| Dec 2024 | Funding round AI search engine Perplexity reportedly closed a 500M USD round, roughly tripling its valuation to 9B USD, led by IVP. | $500M |
| Apr 2024 | Funding round AI-search company Perplexity AI raised $62.7M at a $1.04B valuation in a round led by Daniel Gross, with NVIDIA and Jeff Bezos. | $62.7M |
| Jan 2024 | Series B AI-search company Perplexity AI raised a $73.6M Series B led by IVP at a $520M valuation, with Jeff Bezos and NVIDIA. | $73.6M |
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Perplexity AI has acquired Carbon.
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