Eleanor Hooker

Profound's growth is only possible because of marketers like you! Help us spread the news today, and I hope you know this is your celebration too. As a thank you for helping us reaching this milestone, send me a message if you'd like some swag!

Big news today @channel: Profound is announcing a $180M Series D at a $1.8B valuation, co-led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, to build the canonical AI marketing platform. Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Saga Ventures, Evantic, and South Park Commons are all participating. Winning in AI Search requires your brand to be everywhere, all at once. It's simply an inhuman amount of work. That's why we've built the first true AI Marketer. Today, 2,500+ brands, including a third of the Fortune 100, run their marketing this way in Profound. And this community has helped us get there, meaning that this news is your news too. Thank you for growing with us and inspiring us to keep building for Marketing Engineers.

@channel I'm excited to share that we're bringing our next edition of the Marketing Engineering Hackathon to San Francisco on October 3, and you're invited to apply 🎉 40 builders. One day. $40,000 in prizes. Our first hackathon in NYC this June was 5x oversubscribed, and since then, this whole community has only continued to grow. The challenge: Find a marketing process that's inhuman in scope or scale, and ship a system or agent that runs it. You'll build solo, on the day, no teams and no pre-builds. What's at stake: The top two winners each take home $10K in cash and $10K in Profound Agent credits, plus the chance to interview at Profound (and more prizes announced as we get closer to the day). Details:

Every builder gets a Profound instance, but you can ship with any stack you want. Spots are limited, so apply with a proof-of-work sample showing what you've built before. Apply now Selected builders will hear from us the week of September 21. Tag or share this with a marketer who should be building with agents this fall.