--- title: AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI lands $26M,... description: Perplexity AI, which bills itself as a “conversational search engine,’ closed a Series A funding round led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-powered-search-engine-perplexity-ai-lands-26m-launches-ios-app-oehvhfqa6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI lands $26M, launches iOS app | daily.dev og:description: Perplexity AI, which bills itself as a “conversational search engine,’ closed a Series A funding round led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-powered-search-engine-perplexity-ai-lands-26m-launches-ios-app-oehvhfqa6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/oEhVhFQA6.png og:image:alt: AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI lands $26M, launches iOS app og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI lands $26M, launches iOS app **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Perplexity AI, which bills itself as a “conversational search engine,’ closed a Series A funding round led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from Databricks Ventures and angel investors. The startup reports that it had 10 million monthly visits and 2 million unique visitors in February alone. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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