AI marketing startup Profound raises $180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins
ditzikow · x · 2026-09-16
AI search visibility startup Profound announced a $180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins. The company positions itself as diffusing AI into the enterprise marketing org, and investors argue AI is transforming every vertical the way it did software engineering — signaling that how brands get cited by AI answer engines (AEO) is now a big-capital bet.
Related event: AI search optimization firm Profound raises $180M Series D(6 posts)→
More from Venture
- TotalEnergies and Mistral strike €100M+ AI deal to build frontier models for oil exploration — arthurmensch · 2026-09-16
- Anthropic's Astra tops spend while OpenAI's Luna dominates token usage by a lot — gdb · 2026-09-16
- AIUC raises $40M Series A led by Ribbit to underwrite and audit enterprise AI agents — typewriters · 2026-09-16
- App Founders Make $100-200k/Mo Running AI Slop Ads on Meta, Ecom Playbook Spreads — alexgoughcooper · 2026-09-16
- Factory AI raises $200M at $5B valuation; co-founder says firms will own their own models — annbordetsky · 2026-09-16
- Ex-Meta CTO invests in Planted, robots that make solar installs 2x denser — sudoraohacker · 2026-09-16