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Perplexity

AI · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2022 Decacorn

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Valuation
$10–50B
Latest valuation · 2026
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Revenue
$100–500M
Latest reported FY
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Headcount
1–2k
Current team size
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Investors

24 investors on Perplexity's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 9 investors entered at this stage
Yann LeCun
Amjad Masad
Pieter Abbeel
Clément Delangue
Nal Kalchbrenner
Oriol Vinyals
Nat Friedman
Ashish Vaswani
Andrej Karpathy
Series A 9 investors entered at this stage
Paul Buchheit
NEA
Soleio Cuervo
Jeff Dean
Bob Muglia
Databricks
Susan Wojcicki
Pete Sonsini
Elad Gil

Global footprint

Where Perplexity has talent and traffic

AI talent share
4.7% of workforce is AI talent
(65 of 1,369 staff)
Core AI251.83%
Other AI402.92%
Non-AI workforce1,30495.25%
Workforce by country
62 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States62.9%
🇮🇳 India16.2%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom5.9%
🇨🇦 Canada2.4%
🇷🇸 Serbia1.6%
Top 5 of 62 shown
Web traffic by country
170M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States20.6%
🇮🇳 India11.6%
🇩🇪 Germany5.2%
🏳️ Russian Federation4.3%
🇫🇷 France4.1%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$11k patent portfolio · 1 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$11k
<0.01% of valuation · 3980.2× smaller than top peer C3.ai ($44M)
1 active patent families
Where Perplexity innovates Data miningData bankDatabaseSearch engineUser input

Where Perplexity concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Perplexity and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Perplexity's 5 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Perplexity appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2023–2025. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

5 deals across Perplexity's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        Where Perplexity deploys vs peers

        Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        Perplexity's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        5 of 5 deals

        Sentiment on X

        What X is saying about Perplexity

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Perplexity on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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