Morning VC Brief丨2025.08.15

Week33 Highlights丨Profound, Evertune, Confido, Tavily, Continua, Jump, Cache, Protege

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eric gu
August 15, 2025

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01. Venture News

1/ GEO Platform Profound raised $35M Series B

  • Product: Marketing platform that helps brands understand and control how AI interprets and uses their products, creating AI-optimized content for "marketing to superintelligence"

  • Highlight: Referenced by Reddit CEO during Q2 earnings call; utilizes state-of-the-art reasoning models processing billions of unique signals

  • Investor: Sequoia Capital (Lead), Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures

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2/ GEO Evertune raised $15M Series A

  • Product: Enterprise-grade AI marketing suite that helps brands understand and influence how AI models describe, rank and recommend their products across AI platforms

  • Highlight: Runs 100,000+ AI prompts per report; partners with Canada Goose, Miro, and Choreograph (WPP)

  • Investor: Felicis Ventures(Lead), Eniac Ventures, NextView Ventures

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3/ CPG Financial Operations Platform Confido raised $15M Series A

  • Product: First automated financial operations software built specifically for CPG brands, helping them scale brick-and-mortar retail more efficiently through automation of deductions, trade, and planning processes

  • Highlight: Serves fast-growing brands including Olipop, Dr. Squatch, and DUDE Wipes

  • Investor: Footwork(Lead)

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4/ AI Agent Web Infrastructure Tavily raised $25M Series A

  • Product: Web infrastructure layer for AI agents providing real-time, high-fidelity access to web information for autonomous systems, research agents, and copilots

  • Highlight: 700,000+ users, 1M+ monthly installs, 100,000 GitHub mentions; pure product-led growth with zero outbound sales

  • Investor: Insight Partners & Alpha Wave Global(Lead)

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5/ AI Group Chat Agent Continua raised $8M Seed

  • Product: Consumer-facing platform that brings AI agents to group chats on SMS, iMessage, and Discord to enhance collaboration through automated reminders, polls, calendar invitations, and document generation

  • Highlight: Founded by Google veteran David Petrou (17+ years, founding member of Google Goggles and Google Glass)

  • Investor: GV (Lead), Bessemer Venture Partners

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6/ Sports Fan Experience Platform Jump raised $23M Series A

  • Product: Unified fan experience platform for professional sports teams, replacing legacy ticketing systems and disconnected tools with end-to-end solution covering ticketing, sales, marketing, and operations

  • Highlight: signed NBA and WNBA teams; going live in NBA soon; powers full fan journey from sales to ticket scanning

  • Investor: Seven Seven Six(Lead), Forerunner Ventures

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7/ Exchange Fund Platform Cache raised $12.5M Series A

  • Product: Modern exchange fund platform that lets investors swap concentrated stock for diversified portfolios tracking major benchmarks (Nasdaq-100, S&P 500) while deferring capital gains taxes

  • Highlight: $625M assets on platform; average client invests $900K and defers $750K in capital gains

  • Investor: First Round Capital(Lead), Quiet Capital

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8/ AI Training Data Platform Protege raised $25M Series A

  • Product: Platform enabling secure exchange of proprietary data for AI training, connecting data owners with AI developers through safe and governed data access

  • Highlight: 100+ data partners across healthcare and media; 300,000+ hours video content, 500,000+ hours audio, billions of clinical notes, hundreds of millions medical images; 20x business growth in 2025

  • Investor: Footwork(Lead), CRV, Bloomberg Beta, Flex Capital

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