{"id":99290,"date":"2025-10-02T15:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/99290\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:09:11","slug":"perplexity-acquires-the-team-behind-sequioa-backed-ai-design-startup-visual-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/99290\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity acquires the team behind Sequioa-backed AI design startup Visual Electric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"&lt;span class=&quot;caption&quot;&gt;Image Credits:Visual Electric&lt;\/span&gt;\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"540\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-1gfnohs loader\"\/> Image Credits:Visual Electric      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/12\/05\/visual-electric-launches-an-ai-powered-image-generator-with-a-designer-workflow-focus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sequoia-backed AI design startup Visual Electric;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sequoia-backed AI design startup Visual Electric<\/a> said that it is joining search startup Perplexity today. The company noted on its site that the team would be joining a new Agent Experiences group at Perplexity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity\u2019s CEO, confirmed the acquisition with a post on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Deal terms were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The startup <a href=\"https:\/\/visualelectric.com\/about\/perplexity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> that as part of the transition, it will shut down Visual Electric as a product in 90 days. It added that users will be able to export their data, and subscribers will get prorated refunds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Visual Electric was founded in 2022 by Colin Dunn, a former Facebook and Dropbox employee, Adam Menges, a former Apple employee, and Zach Stiggelbout, a former Microsoft engineer. The tool, aimed at designers, lets users create images using AI and apply edits on an infinite canvas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The idea was to have designers build ideations and concepts over a whiteboard. Over time, the company added support for video generation, as well. The startup had raised $2.5 million in funding from Sequoia, BoxGroup, and Designer Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image Credits:Visual Electric Sequoia-backed AI design startup Visual Electric said that it is joining search startup Perplexity today.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,19,17,7623,934,82,63254],"class_list":{"0":"post-99290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-perplexity","15":"tag-startup","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-visual-electric"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}