No. Perplexity AI has no imminent IPO plans on record. It is still private.
What is Perplexity AI's valuation in 2026?
Perplexity AI is valued at $18B as of 2025-Q4, set by its Series E ($500M, Dec 2025). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Perplexity AI filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Perplexity AI.
Who are Perplexity AI's investors?
Perplexity AI's investors include IVP, Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, Bessemer, Susa Ventures, Elad Gil and 1 more.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Perplexity reimagines search as an AI-first answer engine. Offers free + Pro tiers with multi-model routing across GPT, Claude, and its own Sonar models. Comet browser launched in 2025 to integrate AI search natively.
Company Profile
CEO
Aravind Srinivas
Founded
2022
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Employees
~250
Total Raised
$1.5B
Est. Revenue
$100M (2025)
Growth
~5x YoY
Last Round
Series E — $500M (Dec 2025) · Lead: Institutional Venture Partners
IPO Status
no imminent plans
Fundraising Status
Series E · $500M · 8 mo ago
no imminent plansTotal raised $1.5B
Secondary Market
Implied price / share
$70.25
Last round price / share
$69.54
vs last round
+1.0%
Open interest
57
Last round price vs secondary price
Secondary price return by period
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series E
$500M
Dec 2025
Institutional Venture Partners
—
Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
Open models
6
verified organization
Downloads (30d)
200,718
across all models
Followers
2,745
Top model
pplx-embed-context-v1-4b
115,306 downloads / 30d
Attributed to Hugging Face organization "Perplexity" as of 2026-08-19. Open-weights footprint only — closed-model usage is not publicly measurable. Verify on Hugging Face ↗
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
● First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
100
via ashby
Product-build share
57%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
product-led hiring — 57% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by function
■ product-building ■ go-to-market / G&A
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Monetization)Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer)Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer)Member of Technical Staff (Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI)Member of Technical Staff (Backend/Infrastructure Engineer, Search)Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Engineer, Search)
Counted from Perplexity AI's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2025-Q4. Refreshed quarterly.