Perplexity AI raises $74M to take on Google and Microsoft Bing with AI-native search – VentureBeat
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Today, California-based Perplexity AI, the year-old startup looking to reinvent knowledge discovery with an AI-native search engine, announced it has raised $73.6 million in a series B round of funding.
The investment comes from IVP with participation from NEA, Databricks, Nvidia, Bessemer Ventures and Kindred Ventures.
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Notably, several tech visionaries also joined the list of backers, including Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos, former X VP Elad Gil, GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke and Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch.
Perplexity, which has now raised a total of $100 million at an estimated valuation of over $500 million, plans to use the capital to build out its AI-driven search engine offering and take on…
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