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Profound raised $96 million in a funding round, reaching a $1 billion valuation to enhance its AI discovery monitoring platform. This funding will support the expansion of AI visibility monitoring and automation to facilitate greater enterprise application and accelerate analytics and AI-driven workflow development.

The platform queries multiple AI answer engines to analyze outputs, sentiment, and context. The Series C round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and others, bringing Profound's total funding to $155 million.