Profound is a New York City–based company building an automated marketing platform focused on helping brands understand, control, and scale how they appear across AI Search. Its product suite, branded the Profound Ecosystem, includes Profound University for training marketers in agentic workflows, a Community Certification program that credentials skilled practitioners, and an Agency Marketplace that connects certified partners with brands. By combining these elements, Profound formalizes the role of the “Marketing Engineer,” blending marketing, data, and agent-based operations. The company currently serves more than 700 enterprise customers—over 10 percent of the Fortune 500—across sectors such as CPG, financial services, retail, pharma, consumer tech, and B2B tech, with clients including Target, Walmart, Figma, Ramp, MongoDB, Chime, and U.S. Bank. Profound plans to use newly raised capital to expand operations and further product development. To date, the company has secured more than $155 million in funding.

Total raised

$155M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Feb 2026