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Profound
Marketing platform for AI answer engine optimization
About Profound
Profound operates in the digital marketing sector, focusing on enhancing brand visibility and representation in AI Answer Engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google SGE. The company serves enterprise clients by providing insights and analytics on how their brands appear in AI-generated responses. Profound's business model is based on a customized enterprise pricing solution, with plans to launch a publicly accessible dashboard available via monthly subscription. The company makes money by offering these analytics and optimization services to brands, helping them improve their marketing, PR, content, and social strategies. Profound's system also includes competitor benchmarking, allowing clients to track and compare their performance against industry averages and competitors. Currently in closed beta, Profound is accessible only to pre-approved brands.
Source: Dealroom company dataAt a glance
- Founded
- 2024
- Headquarters
- New York City, United States
- Sector
- AI
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier
Latest news
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Investors
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Seed6 investors entered at this stage
Keith Rabois
Max Altman
South Park Commons
Thomson Nguyen
Ben Braverman
Balaji Srinivasan
Series A13 investors entered at this stage
Kleiner Perkins
Jordan Singer
David Senra
Jordi Hays
NVentures
Saga
SV Angel
Khosla Ventures
Andrew Karam- KWKevin Wang.
Karim Atiyeh
Guillermo Rauch
Sequoia
Series B and later2 investors entered at this stage
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Evantic Capital
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