Perplexity

Perplexity

Private
San Francisco, CaliforniaAI, Data & Cloud Infrastructurehttps://www.perplexity.ai

Last Round

Series E

Extention

9/11/2025

Est. Valuation

$20B

Total Funding Raised

$1.6B

Company Overview

Perplexity is an artificial intelligence company that offers a search engine platform designed to facilitate the development of safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence through an open-source environment accessible to the public.

Sector

AI, Data & Cloud Infrastructure

Verticals

NLP & Conversational AI, Business Intelligence, Content Creation, Workflow Automation

Business Model

B2C

Customer Profile

Subscription SaaS, Freemium, Usage-Based SaaS, Revenue Share

AI Layer

Application

Keywords

conversational search engineanswer engineAI searchAI assistantgenerative searchcited answersreal-time web searchsearch chatbotGoogle alternativeinternal knowledge searchB2B searchcontent generationAI browserdeveloper API

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Perplexity Comps

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CompanyStatusEst. ValuationRev Multiple
OpenAIPrivate$86.0B~40x
CoherePrivate$5.0B--
Competitor 1Public$XX.XBXXx
Competitor 2Public$XX.XBXXx

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Perplexity Funding Rounds

Historical fundraising activity

RoundDateAmount RaisedValuationInvestorsSources
Series E Extention9/11/2025
Series E Extension7/18/2025
Series E5/12/2025
Series D12/18/2024
Series C4/23/2024
Series B
1/4/2024

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Key People

Founding team and executive leadership

Denis Yarats

Co-Founder CTO

Founding Team

Johnny Ho

Cofounder, Chief Strategy Officer

Founding Team

Jack Ma

Technical Deputy To The CTO, Member Of Technical Staff

Executive Team

Perplexity Investors

Notable investors and investment history

InvestorRounds
StartXSeries A
Greylock PartnersSeries B
Mirae AssetSeries E Extention
New Enterprise Associates (NEA)Series E, Series D, Series B, Series C, Series A, Series E Extension
BroadLight CapitalSeries D
Factorial FundsSeries B
Laude VenturesSeries B

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Firmographic Details

HeadquartersSan Francisco, California
Employee Range1,523
Year Founded2022
Last Funding9/11/2025

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