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Boost brands' visibility in AI services observed

fresh · evidence today 7 sources no confidence data
65.8/100
Venture signal
scored above 58% of late peers
Outlook Stable
Why this score? ↓

What we have established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Not recorded

    No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.

  2. 2 Evidence sufficient to publish Yes

    The inclusion bar: two or more independent sourced evidence families. This profile is published and listed. It is a statement about how much evidence we hold, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Not a fit

    Evidence places this company outside this buyer’s market. The profile stays published; this labels it.

    POSITIVE MANDATE MISMATCH: the latest covered financing event carries a source-stated stage of series_d, beyond the frozen seed/Series-A mandate. Latest round resolved by the projection is series_d; no unlabelled event (e.g. a later Form D) is held that could supersede it. OVERTURN CONDITION: a source showing the latest financing event is actually seed/Series-A, or that the buyer mandate includes series_d. The verdict rests on the SOURCE-STATED stage "series_d", not on size, age or industry.

    Venture backing: not found · Stage band: series_d — stated by the held funding source (https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/15/profound-raises-180m-to-boost-brands-visibility-in-ai-services/), announced 2026-09-15

    What would overturn this:

    Assessed 2026-10-24 for seed/Series-A sourcing.

Funding
$180M
2026-09-15
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
no board
eng openings
Commercial
not checked
homepage

Composite signal v0 19 ±23 · 2 components

Five evidence lanes (activity, capital, infra, hiring, ecosystem) as within-cohort percentiles, combined with evidence-breadth weights over the 60-company baseline cohort. The ± band widens with missing lanes — it measures what the score stands on. 3 signals in the last 60 days back this number.

Traction

Current round

Opportunity & risk

↗ Strongest signal: funding_magnitude (21% of the score).

↓ Scored on 2 of 4 components — adoption, developer had no computable metric.

4 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

Evaluation

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Platform score derived
66/100
Founder self-assessment claimed
8/100
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Technology No signals collected yet ▾
No technology data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.
Team & hiring No signals collected yet ▾
No team & hiring data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.
Market & funding stage 1 of 3 signals present ▾
Funding stage
not provided
Lifecycle stage
not provided
Latest round stage
series_d observed
Timeline 1 events ▾
  1. 2026-09-15 series_d · $180M

Evidence & scoring

Why this score? none_required ▾

VentureSignalScore 65.8/100 for profound, composed from 2 of 4 components (emerging formula), discounted ×0.85 for 50% signal coverage

ComponentWeightNormalizedContribution
funding_recency 0.2 0.8835 0.1767
funding_magnitude 0.3 0.7021 0.2106

Evidence this score rests on

Narrative vs. reality No SEC filing found for this round

Reported narrative · Tier 2
$180M series d
announced 2026-09-15 · source ↗
Filed reality · Tier 0 · SEC
No SEC Form D on record.

An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.

Financing events four different events, four different dates

A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.

Latest established financing date
2026-09-15
Money moved on or after
2026-09-15
Total reported by
not established
Basis
reported round

A reported round dated 2026-09-15 by its own source.

Raw observations 213 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
buyer_fit.assessment {"buyer": "seed/Series-A sourcing", "method": "Backlog pass 2026-10-24: applied the record_buyer_fit.ts fit rule to this company's held primary-source financing evidence (funding.round.* / sec.form_d. observed assessment 2026-10-24 normalized 0.90
buyer_fit.status not_a_fit observed assessment 2026-10-24 normalized 0.90
common_name Profound observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-28 normalized 0.90
community.hn.max_points 615 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-30 superseded 0.20
community.hn.max_points 0 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 50 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-30 superseded 0.20
community.hn.mentions 0 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23275293", "title": "Scientists find brain center that 'profoundly' shuts down pain", "points": 17, "created_at": "2020-05-22", "evidence_type": "rumor", observed artifact ↗ 2020-05-22 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689648", "title": "ML promises to be profoundly weird", "points": 615, "created_at": "2026-04-08"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-04-08 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {} observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
description Boost brands' visibility in AI services observed derived 2026-10-01 normalized 0.60
funding.round.amount_usd 180000000 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-15 normalized 0.90
funding.round.announced_on 2026-09-15 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-15 normalized 0.90
funding.round.lead_investors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-15 normalized 0.90
funding.round.source_url https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/15/profound-raises-180m-to-boost-brands-visibility-in-ai-services/ observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-15 normalized 0.90
funding.round.stage series_d observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-15 normalized 0.90
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