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Perplexity AI
Conversational AI-powered search tool
- 21-100 employees
- B2C
- Artificial Intelligence
- Deep Tech
- Machine Learning
- 575 Market St. SF 4th Floor, San Francisco, California 94105, US
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Company mission
To advance the way people discover and share information.
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Otta's take
Sam Franklin
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As artificial intelligence continues to drive changes in both business operations and day-to-day lives, Perplexity AI delivers an intelligent search engine powered by conversational AI, to improve search outcomes and "unlock the power of knowledge" for all.
Reaching impressive heights of 10 million monthly visits, Perplexity's "ask anything" method of search is clearly a popular one. What sets it apart from other search engines is in its answers, which are concise and fully cited, responding to the user query rather than simply providing a place in which they can scroll to find it themselves.
The company has raised substantial funding, with contributions from former execs at companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Quora, demonstrating the interest that it has drummed up in the space. Having doubled its annual recurring revenue between 2023 and 24, this investment will allow Perplexity AI to continue building out its product, and accelerate growth into the future.
Benefits
- Generous home-office stipend
- Equity
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- 401(k)
Company values
- Ownership - You want to build something special. Something you want to share, something you are proud of, something that keeps you up at night if it’s not good enough
- Velocity - Rush into the unknown, build something, test it, share it, make it better. You understand that velocity comes from decisiveness, execution skills, and investment in systems that scale
- Utility - In the midst of tremendous novelty, we must discover how to take new technology and turn it into something that millions of people want to use every day
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2024
$62.7m
LATE VC
Jan 2024
$73.6m
SERIES B
$165m
Total funding
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Founders
Aravind Srinivas
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Research Scientist at OpenAI, who has interned in Research at Google and Deep Mind. Obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Denis Yarats
(Co-Founder & CTO)PhD Student in AI at NYU. Former AI Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research, and Staff ML Engineer at Quora.
Johnny Ho
(Co-Founder & CSO)Previously a Quantitative Trader at Tower Research Capital, and Engineer at Quora.
Andy Konwinski
(Co-Founder)Co-Founder and Advisor at Databricks. Co-Founder and General Partner at CS Graduate Ventures, and Instructor at the University of California, Berkeley.
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