AI marketing startup Profound completed a $180 million Series D funding round with a valuation of $1.8 billion, led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins

According to Bloomberg, AI marketing startup Profound has completed a $180 million Series D funding round, with a post-money valuation of $1.8 billion. This round was led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins.

Profound was founded in 2024, has raised over $335 million in total funding, and is headquartered in New York. It primarily helps brands adapt to the trend of users initiating searches through AI chatbots like OpenAI ChatGPT and Google Gemini instead of traditional search engines. Its software can track the frequency of brand mentions, the contexts in which they appear, and the ways they are described across various AI models.