Founder of a listed tool
Andy Konwinski
Co-founder, Perplexity, named behind the SPACE listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Andy builds
SPACE C · Code execution sandboxes
SPACE is Perplexity's open-source, self-hosted platform for running agent code in Firecracker microVMs. An operator deploys it on Linux with KVM, and applications drive sandboxes through its HTTP and SSE API or an E2B-compatible API.
Co-founder, Perplexity, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Antoine Chaffin Member of Technical Staff; decision-model research contributor
- Aravind Srinivas Co-founder, Perplexity
- Denis Yarats Co-founder and CTO, Perplexity
- Jerry Ma VP Global Affairs and Deputy CTO
- Johnny Ho Co-founder, Perplexity
Backed by
Elad Gil Nat Friedman Bob Muglia Pieter Abbeel Yann LeCun Andrej Karpathy Ashish Vaswani Amjad Masad Clem Delangue New Enterprise Associates Databricks Susan Wojcicki Paul Buchheit Soleio IVP NVIDIA Bezos Expeditions Bessemer Venture Partners Factorial Capital Kindred Ventures Tobi Lutke Naval Ravikant Balaji Srinivasan Guillermo Rauch Austen Allred
Questions
Who is Andy Konwinski?
Andy Konwinski co-founded Databricks and made early contributions to Apache Spark. He is also a co-founder of Perplexity, of the venture firm Laude Ventures and of the Laude Institute, a nonprofit for computer science researchers.
What does Perplexity make?
Anchor Terminal lists SPACE from Perplexity. SPACE is Perplexity's open-source, self-hosted platform for running agent code in Firecracker microVMs. An operator deploys it on Linux with KVM, and applications drive sandboxes through its HTTP and SSE API or an E2B-compatible API.
Who has invested in Perplexity?
The sources our research read name Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Bob Muglia, Pieter Abbeel, Yann LeCun, Andrej Karpathy, Ashish Vaswani, Amjad Masad, Clem Delangue, New Enterprise Associates, Databricks, Susan Wojcicki, Paul Buchheit, Soleio, IVP, NVIDIA, Bezos Expeditions, Bessemer Venture Partners, Factorial Capital, Kindred Ventures, Tobi Lutke, Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan, Guillermo Rauch and Austen Allred.
How are Andy's tools graded?
SPACE is graded C, 56.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (7)
- https://space.docs.perplexity.ai/guide/index.html
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/perplexityai/SPACE/main/README.md
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/perplexityai/SPACE/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
- https://docs.perplexity.ai/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplexity_AI
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Yarats
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Konwinski
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