IVP, a US-based venture capital investment firm, led a $73.6m Series B funding round in Perplexity AI, an artificial intelligence company, with participation from NEA, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Databricks, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, Tobi Lutke, Bessemer Venture Partners, Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan, Guillermo Rauch, Austen Allred, Factorial Funds, and Kindred Ventures. "Perplexity is intensely building a product capable of bringing the power of AI to billions. The team possesses the unique ability to uphold a grand, long-term vision while shipping product relentlessly, requirements to tackle a problem as important and fundamental as search,” Cack Wilhelm, IVP General Partner.