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Profound raises $180 million in Series D funding at a $1.8 billion valuation to expand its AI marketing platform. Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins jointly lead the round, with six other investors participating. The platform identifies buyer prompts used in AI services, helps brands improve their visibility and assess product accuracy and consumer sentiment, and automates marketing tasks. Profound plans to use the funding to customize AI models for marketing and develop a benchmark for their automation capabilities.

Sep 2026 · SiliconAngleNews article

Profound, which makes marketing software that helps brands appear in AI search results, raises a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation less than seven months after its Series C. Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins lead the round, with existing investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, and South Park Commons participating. The company says revenue has tripled in six months and it serves more than 1,000 enterprise customers, including Comcast, The Estée Lauder Companies, and Walmart.

Sep 2026 · TechCrunchNews article

Deep Cogito raises $43 million in a Series A led by TQ Ventures, with participation from Benchmark, Nexus Venture Partners, Atreides Management, South Park Commons and Zscaler. The startup develops self-improving AI models, including its open-source Cogito family, using techniques that refine model parameters and supervise individual reasoning steps. Its enterprise platform lets customers build custom models with internal data, and the company plans to use the funding to expand that business, grow its research team and release more open-source models.

Aug 2026 · SiliconAngleNews article

Gamma, which makes AI-generated presentations, websites, and social media posts, raises $68 million in a Series B round at a $2.1 billion valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz. CEO Grant Lee says the startup has $100 million in profitable annual recurring revenue and 70 million users. The round includes a $20 million secondary offering and participation from Accel and Uncork Capital; Gamma has about 50 employees and roughly $90 million in total fundraising.

Nov 2025 · TechCrunchNews article