Founder of a listed tool
Denis Yarats
Co-founder and CTO, Perplexity, named behind the SPACE listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Denis 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 and CTO, Perplexity, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Andy Konwinski Co-founder, Perplexity
- Antoine Chaffin Member of Technical Staff; decision-model research contributor
- Aravind Srinivas Co-founder, 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 Denis Yarats?
Denis Yarats co-founded Perplexity in 2022 and is its chief technology officer. He holds a PhD in computer science from New York University, with research on reinforcement learning and natural language, and earlier worked as a software engineer at Yandex and in research at Facebook AI Research.
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 Denis'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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