# Andy Konwinski > Andy Konwinski is co-founder of Perplexity. SPACE on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andy-konwinski/ - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andy-konwinski/index.md (~1,450 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andy-konwinski/index.min.md (~1,180 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andy-konwinski/index.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-10-28 Co-founder, Perplexity. 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 Andy builds - [SPACE](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/perplexity-space.md), graded C, 56.4/100, in 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 2026-10-27. ## Works with - [Antoine Chaffin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/antoine-chaffin/), Member of Technical Staff; decision-model research contributor - [Aravind Srinivas](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aravind-srinivas/), Co-founder, Perplexity - [Denis Yarats](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/denis-yarats/), Co-founder and CTO, Perplexity - [Jerry Ma](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jerry-ma/), VP Global Affairs and Deputy CTO - [Johnny Ho](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/johnny-ho/), Co-founder, Perplexity ## Backed by - [Elad Gil](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/elad-gil/) - [Nat Friedman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nat-friedman/) - [Bob Muglia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bob-muglia/) - [Pieter Abbeel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/pieter-abbeel/) - [Yann LeCun](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/yann-lecun/) - [Andrej Karpathy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andrej-karpathy/) - [Ashish Vaswani](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ashish-vaswani/) - [Amjad Masad](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amjad-masad/) - [Clem Delangue](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/clem-delangue/) - [New Enterprise Associates](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/new-enterprise-associates/) - [Databricks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/databricks/) - [Susan Wojcicki](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/susan-wojcicki/) - [Paul Buchheit](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/paul-buchheit/) - [Soleio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/soleio/) - [IVP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ivp/) - [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/) - [Bezos Expeditions](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bezos-expeditions/) - [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bessemer-venture-partners/) - [Factorial Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/factorial-capital/) - [Kindred Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kindred-ventures/) - [Tobi Lutke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tobi-lutke/) - [Naval Ravikant](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/naval-ravikant/) - [Balaji Srinivasan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/balaji-srinivasan/) - [Guillermo Rauch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/guillermo-rauch/) - [Austen Allred](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/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 - 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 These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. 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