New agreement enables Perplexity Max and Pro users to access and cite information from this curated selection
CB Insights, the leader in predictive intelligence on private companies, announced a new partnership with Perplexity, the AI-powered answer engine, that enables Perplexity Max and Pro users to access and cite information from a curated selection of CB Insights research reports directly in responses.
CB Insights has built a uniquely valuable platform for understanding private companies, with research and predictive intelligence that strategy and deal teams trust to get ahead of what’s next.”
— Dmitry Shevelenko, Chief Business Officer at Perplexity
With the agreement, Perplexity is licensing access to information from a specific set of research reports on topics ranging from AI to crypto, energy tech and robotics, for use in answers to its paid user base. The capability is now live for Perplexity subscribers within Perplexity Computer and search, and gives them the ability to access information from the curated set of CB Insights research reports at the moment they’re asking questions.
Now available to Perplexity Max and Perplexity Pro users, the partnership brings trusted, high-value research into relevant answers and tasks, while CB Insights benefits from expanded reach. CB Insights also offers a deeper subscription-only integration with Perplexity via MCP or API, complementing its similar offerings for other LLMs and enterprise apps.
“CB Insights is excited to surface information from a curated research selection in Perplexity workflows where private markets and other business decisions are being shaped,” said Manlio Carrelli, CEO of CB Insights. “Perplexity users benefit from grounded, citation-backed intelligence, while we benefit from extending our reach and operating as a trusted intelligence layer inside this leading AI tool.”
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“CB Insights has built a uniquely valuable platform for understanding private companies, with research and predictive intelligence that strategy and deal teams trust to get ahead of what’s next,” said Dmitry Shevelenko, Chief Business Officer at Perplexity. “Bringing information from this curated selection of CB Insights research into Perplexity helps us deliver more authoritative, source-backed business answers at the moment users need them.”
The curated selection of CB Insights research reports available as part of the Perplexity integration includes a range of proprietary formats, from startup rankings and visual market maps that categorize companies across an ecosystem, to industry briefings, analyses of major companies’ innovation activity, and early-stage funding trend reports.
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Expanding Options for AI and MCP
The Perplexity partnership adds a new way to access a curated selection of CB Insights research. For deeper access, CB Insights offers paid subscriptions to its full platform of private company data, spanning 11 million companies, 1,600 markets, and predictive metrics used by strategy and deal teams to identify emerging technologies, markets, and high-potential companies earlier. The platform also includes CB Insights’ own AI-powered products, including ChatCBI™, as well as integrations that connect its proprietary data to customers’ AI and enterprise systems.
