Series C+
Perplexity
San Francisco, USA · founded 2022
AI search engine with inline citations — Google's biggest threat.
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Total raised
$900M
Last round
$500M
What they do
Combines GPT/Claude/Gemini with real-time web search. Spaces and Comet (browser) extending the product into deeper workflows.
Why it matters
Search is the most valuable real-estate on the web. Perplexity's brand has crossed the threshold where people say 'perplex it' instead of 'google it'.
Investors
NvidiaJeff BezosIVPNEA
Signals
- ↑Monthly queries300M+