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title: "Perplexity AI: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: ", or simply Perplexity, is an American privately held software company offering a web search engine that processes user queries and synthesizes responses. Perplexity products use large language models and include web search capabilities which provide responses based on current Internet content, citing sources used."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-perplexity-ai
type: Organization
wikidata: Q124333951
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplexity_AI
website: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
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# Perplexity AI

> , or simply Perplexity, is an American privately held software company offering a web search engine that processes user queries and synthesizes responses. Perplexity products use large language models and include web search capabilities which provide responses based on current Internet content, citing sources used.

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-perplexity-ai

## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2022-12-07
- Headquarters: San Francisco
- Status: private
- Website: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/
- Employees: 52 (as of 2024-04-01)
- Industries: artificial intelligence

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/perplexity_ai
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/perplexity-ai
- github: https://github.com/perplexityai
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYqxnCFtaC4-iC_bwt2bRLg
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perplexity.ai

## Key people

- Denis Yarats, founder (entrepreneur and computer scientist)
- Andrew Konwinski, founder (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 2012)
- Aravind Srinivas, founder (AI Researcher)

## Funding rounds

From Form D notices filed with the SEC. An amount sold is what the filing reports at the time of filing, not a valuation.

- 2023-04-05: Form D, USD 28.8 million sold of a USD 28.8 million offering, 27 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1972171/000156761923005521/))

## Investors

- [SK Telecom](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-sk-telecom.md)
- [Accel](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-accel.md)
- [Institutional Venture Partners](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-institutional-venture-partners.md)
- [Wayra](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-wayra.md)
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-new-enterprise-associates.md)
- Daniel Gross

## Products

- Perplexity

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Perplexity AI, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-perplexity-ai#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124333951, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplexity_AI
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001972171

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