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Perplexity, the AI search and agent platform, is reportedly in talks with Nvidia over a new investment that would value the company at more than $30B, up from the $23B valuation set in its January round. The discussions also include a potential technology-licensing agreement between the companies. Perplexity now reports $750M+ in annualized revenue, roughly tripling from under $250M at the start of the year. The talks remain unconfirmed and no round size has been disclosed.

  1. Colin Dunn in SF (Founder @ Superstructure)

    1. Role: Head of Design, Computer @ Perplexity (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Visual Electric ($5M from Sequoia —> acquired by Perplexity), Head of Design @ Universe, Product Designer @ Dropbox, Product Designer @ Facebook

    3. Description: Left Perplexity 4/26

  2. Alex Graveley in SF (CTO @ ufo.ai)

    1. Role: Director, Computer @ Perplexity (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Chief Architect, GitHub Copilot @ GitHub, Engineering @ Dropbox, Co-Founder & CEO @ Hackpad (YC W12; acq by Dropbox), Senior MTS @ VMware

    3. Description: Stealth since 8/26

  3. Marshall K. in US (Co-Founder @ ufo.ai)

    1. Role: MTS @ Perplexity (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Notable ($119M from Greylock, ICONIQ, Oak HC/FT), Princeton PhD Quantitative & Computational Biology

    3. Description: Left Perplexity 6/26

  4. Minh Pham in SF Bay Area (Founder & CEO @ Continuous)

    1. Role: Head of AI Agent Infra @ Perplexity (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Invisible (acq by Perplexity 8/25), Infrastructure Lead @ CloudKitchens, Mobile Platform Lead @ Uber, Mobile Architect @ Amazon

    3. Description: Stealth since 5/26

    4. Contact: Twitter

  5. Kevin Jiang in SF (Co-Founder & CEO @ Polar)

    1. Role: MTS @ Perplexity (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Simulation Labs, Co-Founder & CEO @ Nya Labs, MIT BS Computer Science

    3. Description: "The AI browser that actually does your work"

    4. Funding: $6M seed from Madrona

  6. Ali Shobeiri in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: MTS @ Perplexity (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Vizly (YC S24), ML Engineer @ Apple, SWE @ Microsoft

    3. Description: Left Perplexity 6/26 with no updates

  7. Stacy Galgashova in SF Bay Area (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Program Manager, Special Projects @ Perplexity (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & COO @ LegionFarm ($17M from Kismet Capital, YC)

    3. Description: Left Perplexity 1/26 with no updates

  8. Nikash Sethi in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: 1st Growth Eng & MTS @ Perplexity (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Scale AI

    3. Description: Left Perplexity 8/26 with no updates

  9. Arsen Ohanyan in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: 1st Eng & MTS @ Perplexity (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Palantir, SWE Intern @ Amazon

    3. Description: Left Perplexity 8/23 with no updates

  10. Dilzafer Singh in Palo Alto (Co-Founder & CEO @ ArcaLabs)

    1. Role: AI + Business @ Perplexity (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Arcafeed (acq by Whop), Head of Invoicing Product @ Whop, Venture Partner @ Contrary, Research Assistant @ UC Berkeley Economics, Harvard AB/SM Applied Math

    3. Description: Left Perplexity 2026

  11. Andrii Los in Cracow (CEO & Co-Founder @ Genery)

    1. Role: Staff SWE @ Perplexity (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: CTO & Co-Founder @ LiveFlow ($20M from a16z, Y Combinator, Moonfire), Founding SWE @ Utopia Labs ($23M from Paradigm, Y Combinator), Senior SWE @ Speechify, Early SWE @ Revolut

    3. Description: Left Perplexity 7/25

  12. Afik Cohen in SF (Co-Founder @ Houdini)

    1. Role: Technical Staff @ Perplexity (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Fairbrook AI, Technical Staff @ Morph Labs, Staff SWE @ TikTok, Senior Android Engineer @ Airbnb

    3. Description: "Deploying robots that do real work — starting with school security, neighborhood watch, and factory inspection"

  13. Shubhang Kandiraju in SF (Founder @ Isometry AI)

    1. Role: Product @ Perplexity (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Product @ Exa, Product @ Hive, Brown MS CS

    3. Description: "Building something new"

  14. Shruti Das in SF Bay Area (Co-Founder & CTO @ Perpetua)

    1. Role: Growth Operations @ Perplexity (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Apple, Public Policy Fellow @ Google, Venture Partner @ Contrary

    3. Description: "Building tools for the digital afterlife"

    4. Contact: Site

  15. Andrea Tortella in SF Bay Area (Co-Founder & CEO @ Thrad)

    1. Role: Growth @ Perplexity (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Fellow @ The Aspen Institute, UN Millennium Fellow, UCL BS Economics & Business

    3. Description: "Paid ads in LLMs"

  16. Ashwarye Yadav in SF Bay Area (Co-Founder @ Probe)

    1. Role: Technical PM @ Perplexity (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Forward Deployed SWE @ Palantir, ML Engineer @ Amazon, SWE @ Codebase, UC Berkeley BS EECS

    3. Description: UC Berkeley EECS

  17. Wilson Yan in SF Bay Area (Stealth)

    1. Role: Research Intern @ Perplexity (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Senior Research Scientist @ Google DeepMind, UC Berkeley PhD CS

    3. Description: "Building general agents for the real world"

  18. Oleg Akbarov in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: MTS @ Perplexity (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Product Engineer @ Zora, Frontend Web Developer @ Revolut, Frontend Developer @ Replika

    3. Description: "Building something new"

  19. Daniela G. in SF Bay Area (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of Consumer Experience, User Operations & User Researcher @ Perplexity (3 yrs)

    2. Description: Headline reads alefone.io

    3. Contact: Site

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