Profound · Feb 2026
Profound announced a $96M Series C led by Lightspeed, reaching a $1B valuation and launching Profound Agents and its broader ecosystem.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 5, 2026
Overview
Profound is a New York-based B2B AI-marketing software company that helps brands understand, measure, and improve how they appear in AI-generated answers and recommendations. Its platform combines AI-visibility analytics, answer-engine optimization (AEO), competitive and sentiment analysis, prompt-volume intelligence, and agentic marketing workflows.
Primary product
Profound, an AI-search/answer-engine marketing platform; major modules include Answer Engine Insights, Prompt Volumes, Agent Analytics, Aim, and Profound Agents.
Founded
2024
Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
Team size
100–300; public sources conflict, with the careers page stating 100+ and LinkedIn-derived data indicating 200–300 as of 2026.
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI marketing intelligence; answer-engine optimization; enterprise SaaS; generative-AI analytics
Offices
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Buenos Aires, Argentina
London, England, United Kingdom
Business model
B2B SaaS subscriptions
Enterprise contracts with custom pricing
Agency and multi-brand plans
Usage-based agent credits
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder and CEO
Co-Founder and CTO
Charles Zhou
Head of Engineering
Ali Vaghar
Head of Data
Joey Loi
Head of Product
Tyler Benning
Head of Design
Kareem Agha
VP, Enterprise Sales
Work & culture
The company describes a fast, early-stage, builder-oriented culture emphasizing fractal speed, obsessive craftsmanship, direct/egoless communication, high ownership, and merit-based advancement. Its CTO says engineers, designers, and data scientists are empowered to make product and business decisions. The careers page indicates five days in office.
Work style
Onsite
Compensation
Profound advertises competitive salary plus equity and benefits. A published Account Manager range was $90,000–$140,000 base before variable compensation; an enterprise account-management manager role listed $135,000–$210,000 base in San Francisco. Company-wide compensation data and visa policy were not publicly established.
Benefits
Competitive base compensation
Significant equity
Self-managed flexible time off
Catered team lunches
Dinner stipend
Company-covered late-night rides/Ubers
Monthly fitness stipend
Product & market
Pricing
Public self-serve plans: Starter $99/month billed annually; Growth $399/month billed annually; Enterprise custom pricing. Agent usage is partly metered through credits.
Differentiators
- —Tracks how brands are represented across multiple answer engines rather than only conventional search rankings
- —Combines visibility measurement with sentiment, citations, prompt volumes, competitive benchmarking, and content recommendations
- —Profound Agents provide native execution and orchestration on top of the visibility data
- —Enterprise-scale data claims: 1B+ citations, 30B+ crawler visits, and 10M+ prompts analyzed daily
- —Integrations with HubSpot, Google Workspace, Gamma, Parallel AI, and Vercel
- —Ecosystem includes training, certification, agency marketplace, and Profound University
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Approximately $6.8M estimated 2025 ARR; treat as third-party estimate, not company-reported. A reasonable public-evidence range is $5M–$10M ARR.
Estimated monthly visits
450K
Latest news
Fortune · Feb 2026
Coverage of the Series C, unicorn valuation, enterprise traction, and the competitive AI-search market.
SiliconANGLE · Feb 2026
Describes the platform's AI visibility monitoring, sentiment, benchmarking, data layer, and automated workflows; reports more than 700 enterprises and over 10% of the Fortune 500.
Profound Engineering · Nov 2025
Explains Profound's large-scale answer-engine data work, including hundreds of millions of conversations monthly and the data-science basis for Prompt Volumes.
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