Profound raised $180m at a $1.8bn valuation to sell brands visibility in AI answers

Profound, an enterprise-grade marketing platform built for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), has raised $180M in a Series D co-led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, valuing the two-year-old New York company at $1.8bn, Bloomberg reports. The price is nearly double what it was worth in February, when a $96M round first made it a unicorn, […] This story continues at The Next Web