Perplexity AI

Private

AI-powered answer engine that combines large language models with real-time web search to deliver direct, sourced answers to user queries, challenging traditional search engines

Founders Aravind Srinivas, Johnny Ho
CEO Aravind Srinivas

Company

Founded
2022
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States

Financials

Total Funding
$1.7B
Sectors
Artificial Intelligence Consumer Tech
www.perplexity.ai

Funding History

9 rounds
Series E Sep 10, 2025
$200M
Institutional Venture Partners (Lead) SoftBank Vision Fund 2 NVIDIA Jeff Bezos Accel
Series E Jul 17, 2025
$100M
Accel (Lead) NVIDIA SoftBank Vision Fund 2 New Enterprise Associates
Series E Jun 1, 2025
$500M
Accel (Lead) Institutional Venture Partners SoftBank Vision Fund 2 NVIDIA New Enterprise Associates Jeff Bezos
Series D Dec 18, 2024
$500M
Institutional Venture Partners (Lead) SoftBank Vision Fund 2 NVIDIA Jeff Bezos New Enterprise Associates Bessemer Venture Partners
Series C Jun 27, 2024
$250M
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 (Lead) Institutional Venture Partners New Enterprise Associates NVIDIA Jeff Bezos
Series B Apr 23, 2024
$63M
Daniel Gross (Lead) Stanley Druckenmiller NVIDIA Jeff Bezos Garry Tan Andrej Karpathy Dylan Field
Series B Jan 4, 2024
$74M
Institutional Venture Partners (Lead) New Enterprise Associates Elad Gil Nat Friedman NVIDIA Jeff Bezos Bessemer Venture Partners
Series A Mar 28, 2023
$26M
New Enterprise Associates (Lead) Elad Gil Nat Friedman Databricks Ventures
Seed Sep 1, 2022
$3M
Elad Gil (Lead) Yann LeCun Andrej Karpathy Nat Friedman

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