Aravind Srinivas, Angel Investor

Aravind Srinivas is the Cofounder, President, and CEO of Perplexity, launched in 2022 as one of the fastest‑growing AI platforms for instant answers and knowledge discovery. Before founding Perplexity, he was a Research Scientist at OpenAI, where he worked on language and diffusion generative models, and held research internships at Google and DeepMind, contributing to advancements in transformers and vision models. He is also an active angel investor, backing frontier AI and developer‑focused startups. Since 2023, he has invested in companies such as Cursor, Eleven Labs, Suno, Mistral, Cognition, Fal AI, Pika Labs, LiveKit, Antimetal, and Silurian. His portfolio reflects a strong focus on AI infrastructure, multimodal applications, and next‑generation developer tools. Aravind has made 15 investments to date, with recent activity including Maximor AI ($9M seed round, Sep 2025), howie ($6M seed round, Sep 2025), Brain Co. ($30M Series A, Jul 2025), and Julius AI ($10M seed round, Jun 2025). His investment strategy highlights a commitment to supporting ambitious founders building transformative AI companies.