{"id":960780,"date":"2025-09-11T10:58:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T05:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=960780"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:06:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T05:36:54","slug":"perplexity-finalises-20-billion-valuation-round-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/11\/perplexity-finalises-20-billion-valuation-round-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity finalises $20 billion valuation round: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI startup Perplexity has secured commitments from investors for $200 million in new funding at a $20 billion valuation, the Information reported on Wednesday, citing a person with knowledge of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters could not immediately verify this report and Perplexity did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Run by Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity in August made a $34.5 billion unsolicited all-cash offer for Alphabet&#8217;s Chrome browser, a bid far above its own valuation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI startup Perplexity has secured commitments from investors for $200 million in new funding at a $20 billion valuation, the Information reported on Wednesday, citing a person with knowledge of the matter. Reuters could not immediately verify this report and Perplexity did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Run by Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity in August made a $34.5 billion unsolicited all-cash offer for Alphabet&#8217;s Chrome browser, a bid far above its own valuation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}