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Profound raises a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Funding

16 Sep Profound hits $1.8B valuation with $180M raise led by Sequoia Capital to help brands rank in AI search

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Today’s big thread wasn’t model size—it was control. Anthropic rolled out its Life Sciences Verification Program, giving biology teams access to Mythos, Opus, and Sonnet under safeguards tuned for lab work, including 30 days of data retention in the beta to monitor flagged usage patterns. That same insistence on traceability showed up elsewhere: theCUBE’s reporting at Amplify argued governance is shifting from approving assistant-style help to governing agents that take consequential actions inside regulated workflows. Finance agrees. Executives at Accel Entertainment framed AI adoption as “trust, not budget,” aiming to shorten the financial close to five days while involving auditors early so AI-generated numbers are filing-ready.

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