Perplexity AI, Series D

“I was a bit skeptical before I met Aravind, given how many companies had tried to disrupt Google and failed. However, when we met Aravind in early 2023, and were blown away by his focus and understanding of incentives in the search space. Aravind had a clear vision, that most of Google’s search queries were lower-value navigational and local search. The whitespace was deep Q&A search, where users were looking for answers versus spending time parsing through many links to answer one or more questions. From there, the product could expand to local search and beyond. Finally, we did some technical DD on the pplx-api and were impressed by the low latency and high accuracy. For all these reasons, a strong technical team with a clear vision, a leading product in the space, incredible product velocity and iteration, and an obsessive focus on customer experience, we decided to invest.”