Ilia Fushman is a partner at Kleiner Perkins who led the Series A investment in Profound. He previously worked in public cloud security and draws analogies between the cloud-native transition and the current AI-native rebuild of software categories.
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Profound's AI visibility platform addresses a boardroom-level crisis for brands as referral traffic shifts from Google to AI chat; Kleiner Perkins invested at Series A and revised revenue forecast 4x within months as the market shifted from non-obvious to step-function obvious.
Kleiner Perkins has led Harvey's Series B in 2023 and every subsequent round because the vertical AI legal platform has achieved rapid global traction with 700+ customers across 58 countries, $100M+ run rate, and 500 employees, proving product-market fit in a massive professional services market.