Perplexity (Acquisition Offer)
Funding Details
Awarder
RSS - techcrunch.com
Date Award
August 14, 2025
Vertical
AI Search Engine
Funding URL
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Premoney Valuation
$1,500,000,000
Valuation
$18,000,000,000
Funding Amount
$34,500,000,000
Company Info
Traction
Perplexity has raised about $1.5 billion to date and launched its own browser, Comet, to grow its AI search business.
Market
Web Browsers
Location
USA
Company Description

Perplexity is an AI search engine that has made an unsolicited offer to buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 billion cash, promising to keep its underlying engine, Chromium, open source and invest $3 billion into it.

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