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Profound raised $180 million in Series D funding at a $1.8 billion valuation, co-led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, highlighting a successful business model with proprietary AI data.
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Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista): Profound just raised a $180M Series D at a $1.8B valuation, co-led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins.
The company has been a textbook example of what it takes to build a huge business with sustained advantages in a post-AI world:
Proprietary Data: 100M+ AI answers analyzed every
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