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.

Notable angels joining the round include Guillermo Rauch (Founder, Vercel), Andrew Karam (Co-founder, Applovin), Jordan Singer (CEO, Mainframe), Jordi Hays (TBPN), David Senra (Founders Podcast) and Kevin Wang (CPO, Braze). The funding accelerates Profound's mission to build a platform to enable marketers to navigate the new 'agentic' internet.

Profound is the AI visibility platform that helps brands understand, improve, and measure how they appear in AI-powered search results. Built by alumni of AMD, Microsoft, Datadog, Uber, Bridgewater, and OpenAI, Profound equips marketers to win in a future where AI agents, not blue links, drive discovery.