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Profound Raises $180M at $1.8B Seven Months After Its Series C, With Revenue Tripled and 1,000 Enterprise Clients in AI Search Visibility
Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins co-led a $180M Series D for Profound at a $1.8B valuation on September 15, less than seven months after its $96M Series C, with Lightspeed, Khosla and South Park Commons following on. Founded in 2024, Profound tracks and improves how brands appear in AI-generated answers and says revenue tripled over six months across 1,000+ enterprise clients including Comcast, Estée Lauder and Walmart. Coming a day after xSeek's acquisition of LLMonade, this is the same category consolidating and repricing in the same week — AEO went from not existing to a unicorn plus its first roll-up inside eighteen months, which is the fastest new martech category formation on record.
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