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Profound

AI · New York City, United States · Founded 2024

Marketing platform for AI answer engine optimization MoreLess

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.

Keywords: AI Answer Engines, brand visibility, digital marketing, competitor benchmarking, real-time analytics, enterprise clients, content optimization, PR strategies, subscription model, closed beta.

Valuation $1–2.5B
Revenue $10–50M
Headcount 100–500
Total funding $100–500M
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Profound's talent

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Team profiled 13 named & role-tagged
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Key operators 2 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
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Investors

21 investors on Profound's cap table

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Seed 6 investors entered at this stage
Keith Rabois
Max Altman
South Park Commons
Thomson Nguyen
Ben Braverman
Balaji Srinivasan
Series A 13 investors entered at this stage
Kleiner Perkins
Jordan Singer
David Senra
Jordi Hays
NVentures
Saga
SV Angel
Khosla Ventures
Andrew Karam
Kevin Wang.
Karim Atiyeh
Guillermo Rauch
Sequoia
Series B+ 2 investors entered at this stage

Global footprint

Where Profound has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
8 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States80.9%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom8.1%
🇦🇷 Argentina6.4%
🇮🇳 India1.7%
🇨🇦 Canada1.2%
Top 5 of 8 shown
Web traffic by country
640K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States53.9%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom8.4%
🇮🇳 India5.8%
🇨🇦 Canada3.1%
🇦🇺 Australia1.8%
Top 5 markets shown

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Profound

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Profound on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

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