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Perplexity AI (I)

Geography: United States
Stage: Pre-Seed
Fund size: $50M
Focus: AI/ML
Signals: Published

N°01 / About

About Perplexity AI (I)

Perplexity AI (I) is a venture capital firm based in United States, focusing on Pre-Seed stage investments. The fund actively supports founders building innovative solutions in AI/ML, providing strategic guidance and capital to help startups scale.

N°02 / Thesis

Investment Focus

Location / RegionUnited States

Funding StagePre-Seed

Industry Focus

AI/ML

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Founders solving agent infrastructure, vertical AI, or security

AI agents

agentic security

vertical AI

agent infrastructure

physical AI

verification layers

enterprise AI tooling

frontier models

Bullish Signals

5X revenue with 34% team growthexternal

70K waitlist for AI computer productexternal

Active portfolio content, weekly operator updatesexternal

35+ portfolio spanning vertical AI, agent infrawebsite

Diverse bets: security, verification, SRE, roboticswebsite

Deep infrastructure plays across physical & digitalwebsite

Enterprise SaaS agents + consumer AI parallelwebsite

Mass spectrometry, robotics, commerce, govtech betswebsite

Clinical AI, healthcare vertical strong representationwebsite

Data processing + inference layer portfolio depthwebsite

Traversal AI SRE, Pramaana verification infrastructurewebsite

Frontier model plays alongside applied AIwebsite

Perplexity Computer rollout officially livelinkedin

Voice control + always-on PC features livelinkedin

40+ companies deployed across 12+ domainswebsite

Horizontal tools + vertical stacking across stackwebsite

Consumer (Ink.ai) + enterprise (Parahelp, NationGraph)website

Robotics (Qualia, Westmag) + SaaS (Kindred, Ticker)website

Contrarian Signals

Heavy Perplexity product focus, narrow thesisexternal

Apple ecosystem dependency riskexternal

Physical AI / robotics outside core agent thesiswebsite

Portfolio breadth suggests flexible strategywebsite

Govtech, healthcare bets test AI specializationwebsite

Consumer play (Ink.ai) signals expansion beyond B2Bwebsite

Founder Do's

Show clear revenue growth metrics

Highlight AI-native product differentiation

Demonstrate team efficiency / leverage

Build infrastructure, tooling, or vertical AI

Show waitlist / early traction signals

Focus on trusted judgment or verification layer

Address security in agentic workflows

Founder Don'ts

Pitch without concrete usage metrics

Ignore agentic security & verification

Miss enterprise tooling opportunity

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Facts

Fund Overview

Fund Size$50M

Saves0

Website

People

Key People

Kelly Graziadei, Joanna Lee Shevelenko

Dmitry ShevelenkoPartner / Operator

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