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Perplexity builds a conversational search engine that returns cited, real-time answers to queries, and is expanding into an AI agent browser (Comet) and enterprise knowledge tools.
Raised $1.3B across disclosed rounds.[21]
Venture Round closed September 2025.[3][5]
post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.
Named investors include IVP, Accel, NEA, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos (Bezos Expeditions Fund), SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Bessemer Venture Partners, Databricks, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, SK Telecom.[2][3][4][8][1]
Aravind Srinivas, Co-founder, President & CEO[4][1][23][24]
Andy Konwinski, Co-founder[4][1][23][24]
Denis Yarats, Co-founder[4][1][23][24]
Johnny Ho, Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer[4][1][23][24]
Dmitry Shevelenko, Chief Business Officer[1][22][25][26][27]
Frank te Pas, Head of Product, Enterprise[1][22][25][26][27]
Alex Graveley
May 2026 · techcrunch.com
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Perplexity builds a conversational search engine that returns cited, real-time answers to queries, and is expanding into an AI agent browser (Comet) and enterprise knowledge tools.
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Perplexity Management[1][22][25][26][27]
OpenAI · openai.com · Direct overlap in conversational AI search and Q&A for consumers and enterprise; listed as a competitor in Perplexity's own enrichment data and named alongside Perplexity in AI search market coverage.[1]
Anthropic · anthropic.com · Listed as a direct competitor in Perplexity's enrichment data; both target the same knowledge-worker and consumer Q&A workflow, and Claude models are actually integrated into Perplexity's own product stack (Claude Opus 4.7 powers Perplexity Computer), making...[1][5]
Mistral AI · mistral.ai · Listed as a direct competitor in Perplexity's enrichment data; both compete for developer API spend and enterprise AI assistant budgets.[1]
Microsoft (Copilot / Bing AI) · microsoft.com · VentureBeat explicitly names Microsoft as a target Perplexity is 'taking aim at' with its Computer enterprise agent; both compete on AI-powered search, cited answers, and enterprise workflow automation.[16]
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May 2026 · bloomberg.com
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May 2026 · economictimes.indiatimes.com
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May 2026 · perplexity.ai
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