According to Foresight News, artificial intelligence startup Perplexity has completed a $73.6 million Series B funding round at a valuation of $5.2 billion, led by IVP. Series A investors NEA, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, and Databricks, as well as new investors Nvidia and Jeff Bezos (through Bezos Expeditions), participated in the round. To date, Perplexity has raised a total of $100 million in funding.
Founded in 2019, Perplexity's CEO Aravind Srinivas previously interned at DeepMind, Google, and OpenAI before serving as a research scientist at OpenAI. Perplexity's CTO Denis Yarats has worked at Facebook and Microsoft.
