AEO startup Profound hits unicorn valuation with $180M Series D, 7 months after last round

AEO startup Profound hits unicorn valuation, raises $180M Series D 7 months after last round

Profound, which builds marketing software to help brands surface in AI search results, raised a $180M Series D at a $1.8B valuation. That's less than seven months after its $96M Series C. Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins led; Lightspeed, Khosla, and South Park Commons joined. The company says revenue tripled in six months and it now has over 1,000 enterprise customers including Comcast, Estée Lauder, and Walmart. It's part of the AEO/GEO wave—optimizing for visibility inside AI answer engines.