Perplexity is reportedly in talks to raise up to $1B at an $18B valuation
AI-driven search startup perplexity would be in an early conversations to pick up up to $ 1 billion in a new financing round that appreciates the startup at $ 18 billion.
Bloomberg, referring to a person who is familiar with the case, reported On Thursday, the annual recurring income from Pertlexity has now reached $ 100 million.
The valuation of PerTlexity has risen in recent years. This new round would double the current valuation of PerTlexity – $ 9 billion – from December. In April 2024, Perplexity was valued at $ 1 billion.
Rumors about a new round come as competition in the AI-driven search room.
On Thursday Anthropic Web Search added to his consumers Ai Chatbot, Claude. Earlier in March, Google launched an early version of a chat-based AI search engine, called AI Mode, for a limited group of testers.
Perhaps because the core market is becoming increasingly busy, Perplexity tries to expand itself to new areas. The startup recently teased the launch of an “agent” browser called Comet, and it has performed its business offer, recently a launch of a AI search engine to help companies pick up information from internal documents.
We have contacted Perplexity for comments on the rumors of fundraising and will update this message when we hear again.
