Profound just raised a $180M Series D at a $1.8B valuation, co-led by Sequoia and…
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Profound just raised a $180M Series D at a $1.8B valuation, co-led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins. The company has been a textbook example of what it takes to build a huge business with sustained advantages in a post-AI world: Proprietary Data: 100M+ AI answers analyzed every month, across 18 countries, which created unfair differentiation within the AEO space. Trusted distribution: by shipping laser-fast, coining the phrase Marketing Engineer, and expanding from a hyper-specific marketing product (AEO) into a full-stack AI platform for marketers, the exact right audience (marketers) deep
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