Profound Secures $20M in Series A Funding for AI Marketing Platform

Profound, an AI-focused marketing platform, has raised $20m in Series A funding. The platform uses machine learning algorithms to help businesses automate and personalize their marketing efforts. Profound will use the funding to expand its product offerings and enhance its marketing capabilities. The round was led by undisclosed investors.

Profound, an AI-focused marketing platform, has secured $20 million in Series A funding to expand its product offerings and enhance its marketing capabilities. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA's venture capital arm), Khosla Ventures, Saga VC, South Park Commons, and SV Angel [1].

The funding will support Profound's mission to build a platform that enables marketers to navigate the new "agentic" internet, where AI agents drive discovery rather than traditional search engines. The platform's features include Answer Engine Insights, Agent Analytics, Conversation Explorer, and Agents, which use advanced reasoning models to provide actionable insights for marketers [1].

Profound's platform processes over 100 million AI search queries monthly, supporting customers in 18 countries and six languages. Early adopters have reported a 25-40 percent lift in AI answer share-of-voice within 60 days. The company also announced the launch of Profound Lite, a self-serve plan priced at $499 per month, bringing leading AI visibility tooling to startups and small businesses [1].

The new capital will expand Profound's engineering and data-science teams in New York, deepen coverage across emerging AI platforms, and accelerate product innovation aimed at the coming "agentic" internet. "Profound is the clear leader in a category that will define modern marketing," said Ilya Fushman, Partner at Kleiner Perkins [1].

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[1] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/profound-raises-20m-as-brands-race-from-blue-links-to-ai-answers-302486211.html