Profound, a NYC-based AI marketing platform provider, raised $180m in Series D funding at a $1.8 billion valuation.
The round was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins with participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Saga Ventures, Evantic, and South Park Commons.
The company intends to use the funds to expand capabilities and further research efforts.
Led by James Cadwallader, Co-Founder and CEO, Profound provides an AI marketing platform for marketers to research, write, report, and collaborate to get their brand chosen by the answer engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity consumers use. Built on 2B+ real user prompts and growing, it shows what people ask AI and what the models say back. The company’s AI Marketer proactively pairs that data with thew user’s business context to surface opportunities, deploy Agents, and measure the impact to improve with every use.
Profound now serves over 1,000 enterprise brands. Customers include Comcast, The Estée Lauder Companies, Walmart, Campari Group, Royal Bank of Canada alongside technology companies such as Zoom, ServiceNow, Ramp, Cursor, MongoDB, and Figma.
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16/09/2026