Perplexity raises $500M at $9B valuation
The answer engine continues to compound, with Nvidia and Jeff Bezos joining a $500M round.
Perplexity at $9B
Perplexity, the AI answer engine founded in 2022 by Aravind Srinivas, has closed a $500M round led by IVP. Backers include Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and existing investors Founders Fund and Tiger Global. The round values the company at $9B.
What Perplexity is doing with the money
- Expanding the Perplexity Pages and publisher revenue-share program.
- Scaling the enterprise and education tiers.
- Investing in first-party answer quality and citation transparency.
The company reported more than 15M monthly active users and an annualized query volume north of 500M.
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