Profound raised $180m at a $1.8bn valuation to sell brands visibility in AI answers
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Profound, an enterprise-grade marketing platform built for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), has raised $180M in a Series D co-led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, valuing the two-year-old New York company at $1.8bn, Bloomberg reports. The price is nearly double what it was worth in February…
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- 2026-09-15 14:03 · The Next Web
Profound raised $180m at a $1.8bn valuation to sell brands visibility in AI answers