A unicorn, a $1.9 billion exit, and a metric nobody can audit
Tech Funding News Editorial team
Profound raised a $96 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation and discussed how “visibility” in ChatGPT is hard to audit, alongside Semrush being bought by Adobe for about $1.9 billion. The article says Pew Research Center tracked 12,593 AI-summary results out of 68,879 unique Google searches from 900 US adults in March 2025 and found summary-present visits clicked a standard search result 8% of the time versus 15% without. The result is a shift from selling easy dashboards toward demanding auditable sampling, stored verbatim answers, and evidence that ties measurements to specific actions.
Why it matters
On 24 February 2026, Profound announced a $96 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, led by…