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Dylan Babbs

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Dylan Babbs

@dbabbs

Co-founder & CTO at @tryprofound, the marketing platform for ai. prev: @uber, @southpkcommons, @uw_ischool alum.

🇺🇸 New York

Joined June 2010

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Dylan Babbs
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Feb 24
Today, @tryprofound is excited to announce our $96M Series C at a $1B valuation, led by @lightspeedvp with participation from @sequoia, @kleinerperkins, @MattEvantic, @Saga_Ventures and @southpkcommons. When we started Profound 18 months ago, we had two fundamental beliefs about
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Dylan Babbs
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Jan 11, 2023
I created a “visual diff” tool for comparing different design layouts side by side. The tool provides a sankey chart visualization between the control and treatment designs, letting you inspect how the screen’s elements change throughout different configurations & parameters.
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Dylan Babbs
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Aug 12, 2025
Today we're announcing our $35M Series B led by @sequoia to build technology that connects brands with one new customer: Superintelligence. Customers don’t turn to Google blue links to decide what to buy anymore. They ask ChatGPT.
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Dylan Babbs
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Nov 28, 2023
🗺 Farewell, orange highways. The latest updates to the Google Maps color scheme mark the end of an era in digital cartography. Gray and blue now rule the cartography scene, as 6 of the top digital map providers all use a shade of gray or blue to represent highways. Just like
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Dylan Babbs
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Sep 30, 2025
We're hiring for all roles in our Union Square NYC office 🇺🇸
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Dylan Babbs
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Jan 16, 2023
Working on a vector map data importer for @figma. Zoom and pan to a geographic area & the plugin imports layers into the Figma document for easy editing & styling. Labels, buildings, roads, water, land are all included as separate groups. Who would be interested in using this?
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Dylan Babbs
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Jun 21, 2019
Introducing harp.gl, @here's new and beta 3D web map rendering software developer.here.com/blog/introduci…
Dylan Babbs
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Aug 17, 2025
Sundays at ⁦@tryprofound⁩
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Dylan Babbs
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Sep 27, 2023
Google Maps 3D Tiles 🏢 + Solar API ☀️
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Dylan Babbs
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Nov 3, 2025
🇺🇸 New York City 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires 🇬🇧 London and now... 🌉 San Francisco
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Dylan Babbs
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Oct 4, 2023
Visualizing the potential panel layouts on an apartment building that avoid shade cover from nearby trees. As the sun's angle changes throughout the day, we can see the panels avoid all the shade that hits the building. I've seen many stories of solar panel owners on Reddit
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Dylan Babbs
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Nov 15, 2024
New landing page about to go stupid
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Dylan Babbs
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Jun 18, 2025
$20M to pioneer Answer Engine Optimization We're excited to announce Profound's $20M Series A funding, led by @kleinerperkins with participation from @khoslaventures, @nvidia, @Saga_Ventures, @southpkcommons, and @svangel.
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Dylan Babbs
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Oct 23, 2025
.@tryprofound getting started education banners by @tylerbenning_
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