Profound
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$314.5M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$180M
Series D · Sep 2026 · 1 mo ago
Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
68
+14 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
South Park Commons, Kleiner Perkins
The money's age
Fresh money
1 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
43/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 15
Raised a round Series D $180M · markets.businessinsider.com
Feb 24
Raised a round Venture round $96M · Fortune
Aug 12, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $35M · Fortune
Aug 13, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $3.5M · adweek
2024
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
4
best: 3 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series D | Sep 2026 | $180M | — | markets.businessinsider.com |
| Venture round | Feb 2026 | $96M | — | Fortune |
| Venture round | Aug 2025 | $35M | — | Fortune |
| Venture round | Aug 2024 | $3.5M | — | adweek |
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South Park Commons 
Kleiner Perkins 
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How Profound hires
Truth index
B 78/100
Median time to fill
127 days
Ghost roles
28%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Profound scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 68 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 28% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 127 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Profound is an American software company whose platform shows brands how they appear in answers from AI assistants and answer engines such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. It tracks brand mentions, citations and share of voice across AI search, and helps marketing teams optimise content for generative engines, supported by forward deployed marketing engineers. The company has teams in New York, San Francisco, London and Buenos Aires and is headquartered in New York, New York, United States.
News
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Profound CEO James Cadwallader on How it's Using $180 million Series D Capital
Profound CEO James Cadwallader joins Ashley Mastronardi on NYSE Live to discuss How it's Using $180 million Series D Capital
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AEO startup Profound hits unicorn valuation, raises $180M Series D 7 months after last round
Profound has raised a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation, less than seven months after it raised a $96 million Series C.
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Profound Raises $180M Series D at $1.8B Valuation to Build the AI Platform For Marketing Teams
NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Profound today announced it has raised a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation, co-led ...
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The Estée Lauder Companies Announces Partnership with Profound to Expand AI Visibility Across Its Global Brand Portfolio
NEW YORK, September 14, 2026--The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE: EL) today announced a global strategic partnership with Profound, the category-defining AI marketing platform, advancing its ambition to be prestige beauty's leader in AI-native discover
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Scientists map key protein interactions linked with profound autism
Research published in the journal Science illuminates a "missing piece" in the biological understanding of profound autism and offers new targets for drug development.
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Claude and Claude Code are distinct Answer Engines
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Profound over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
70
Postings analysed
71
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Languages
Python18%
SQL13%
JavaScript13%
Rust7%
Frameworks & libraries
Next.js3%
React.js3%
Dagster1%
SwiftUI1%
Databases
PostgreSQL8%
ClickHouse4%
MySQL1%
Redis1%
Cloud & platforms
Figma100%
AWS15%
Perplexity10%
GCP8%
AI & ML
LLM14%
ChatGPT10%
Gemini3%
Claude1%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$200k
Typical range
$80k – $375k
Open positions
66
46
Jobs
Junior
15.2%
Middle
17.4%
Senior
19.6%
Staff
41.3%
Architect
6.5%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 7 | $170k | $100k – $200k |
| Middle | 8 | $175k | $140k – $220k |
| Senior | 9 | $215k | $140k – $250k |
| Staff | 19 | $250k | $170k – $375k |
| Architect | 3 | $365k | $270k – $375k |
Highest paying role
Head of Talent
$375k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Profound
By role, level and city, against the market · 66 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
70/100
Growing
Open positions
68
11 opened / 8 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
107 days
faster than 13% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Solutions
21% ▼
Management
14% ▼
Sales
14% ▲
HR
11% ▼
Marketing
11% ▲
Finance
7% ▲
Actively hiring for Sales (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added QuickBooks to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack
Oct 2026
Added Claude Code to stack
Oct 2026
Added Swift to stack
Sep 2026
Added UIKit to stack
Sep 2026
Added TestFlight to stack
Sep 2026
Added SwiftUI to stack
Sep 2026
Added State Management to stack
Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack
Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack
Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
6
Hiring now
6
Countries
4
Busiest office
New York
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New York
United States
HQ
Corporate Offices
63 open roles 21 posted in 90 days 22% engineering 200-500 est. staff $215k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, AI/ML, Solutions
441 9th Ave, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10001
San Francisco
United States
Engineering / R&D
36 open roles 17 posted in 90 days 28% engineering 50-200 est. staff $205k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Sales, Solutions
260 Townsend St
London
United Kingdom
Regional office
16 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $158k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Solutions, Management
5 Beaconsfield Street
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Regional office
9 open roles 56% engineering 10-50 est. staff $209k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Design, Industrial Engineering
Castillo 1366
Singapore
Singapore
Sales office
6 open roles 10-50 est. staff $137k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Marketing, Solutions
Boston
United States
Sales office
4 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $150k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Sales, Solutions
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