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South Park Commons is a community and early-stage venture fund that supports founders and researchers building new companies, often before formal incorporation.
The $180m Series D sells roughly the same tenth of the company that $96m bought in February, and the performance figure behind the new price is revenue tripling in six months. Profound counts more than 1,000 enterprise brands.
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Profound raised $96 million at a $1 billion valuation in February and Adobe closed on Semrush in April. Both deals assume presence in AI answers can be counted, and when ChatGPT names a brand without a link there is no referrer to count it.
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The Form D behind the closed round counts convertible securities that had already converted as half of the $30,792,485 total. The data source the money funds is a camera worn by each worker all day.
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The Series D values the two-year-old marketing startup at $1.8 billion. Its prompt data comes from opted-in consumer panels, and the mention-frequency score a brand sees on the dashboard is a sample estimate.
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Fangchang Ma says the lag and the dead-eyed listening in voice products come from the handoffs between four models. Nuance's evidence is a demo it calls unfinished and a research preview promised for later this year.
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VLM Run's gateway lets developers swap open-weight document models without touching their pipelines. The routing argument is sound; the pricing claim arrives without accuracy data.
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