Answer engine optimization and AI visibility platform for enterprises
Profound measures how brands are mentioned, described and cited by AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity, and sells optimization and agent-analytics products on top of that data. It raised a $96M Series C at a reported $1B valuation in February 2026.
Profound was founded in 2024 by James Cadwallader and Dylan Babbs and is based in New York.
Disclosed funding to date totals $155M. The most recent disclosed round was a Series C of $96M, announced 24 February 2026. Investors on record include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Evantic, Saga Ventures and South Park Commons.
Answer engine optimisation platform that tracks how brands appear in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and other AI systems, with citation analysis, competitive benchmarking and AI traffic attribution.
Direct and adjacent competitors tracked in the Atlas.
End-to-end AI search optimization platform
Promptwatch is an Amsterdam AI search optimization platform launched in April 2025 that monitors and improves brand presence in AI answers. It raised a EUR 6 million seed round led by Seed + Speed Ventures in July 2026 after a EUR 1.2 million pre-seed; fundingTotalUsd is left null because the amounts were reported in euros.
Corpus engineering for brand representation inside AI models
geoSurge targets how models such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude internally learn and represent a brand over time rather than only tracking citations. It raised a $12M seed led by AlbionVC, described at the time as the largest seed round in the GEO category.
Agentic marketing platform for enterprise brands in AI channels
Bluefish processes AI prompts and responses across ChatGPT, Google AI, Claude, Perplexity and Amazon Rufus to show enterprises how their products are portrayed, and turns that into marketing actions. It raised a $20M Series A led by NEA in August 2025 and a $43M Series B co-led by Threshold Ventures and NEA in April 2026.
AI search visibility platform
Cognizo is an AI search visibility platform founded by a team of LLM researchers and marketing operators. Secondary sources report a $1.8M pre-seed round in March 2026.
Brand visibility and influence platform for generative AI surfaces
Brandlight tracks and attempts to influence how brands are represented inside generative AI platforms including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. Founded in Israel in late 2024, it raised a $5.75M seed in April 2025 and a $30M Series A led by Pelion Venture Partners in February 2026.
AI search optimization for retail and marketplace listings
Azoma builds AI visibility and content optimization tools aimed at commerce, covering marketplace assistants such as Amazon Rufus and Walmart Sparky alongside general LLMs, including a digital twin that simulates how chatbots describe a brand. It raised a $4M pre-Series A in December 2025.