# Denis Yarats (slim)

> Denis Yarats is co-founder and CTO of Perplexity. SPACE on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder and CTO, Perplexity.

Denis Yarats co-founded Perplexity in 2022 and is its chief technology officer.

## What Denis 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 and CTO, Perplexity, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Andy Konwinski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andy-konwinski/), Co-founder, Perplexity
- [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
- [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 Denis Yarats?

Denis Yarats co-founded Perplexity in 2022 and is its chief technology officer.

### What does Perplexity make?

Anchor Terminal lists SPACE from Perplexity.

### 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

- 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.