AEO Startup Profound Raises $180M Series D Co-Led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins
ditzikow · x · 2026-09-16
Profound, an AI search optimization (AEO) startup, raised a $180M Series D co-led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, evolving from AEO services into an agentic marketing platform with an AI Marketer agent and a Context Manager knowledge base.
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