Kime is a Copenhagen-based AI visibility platform that shows marketing and PR teams how ChatGPT and other AI assistants mention, rank and describe their brand. It announced a €2 million pre-seed round on January 26, 2026, led by PSV Tech, with Nordic Makers and angel investors participating. Vasilij Brandt is founder and CEO, and the Nordic SEO agency Bonzer already uses Kime's technology for clients.
Last updated: November 3, 2026
What are the key facts about Kime?
Kime builds analytics for what the company calls generative engine optimization (GEO). Its platform tracks which brands an AI assistant mentions, in what order, with what sentiment and based on which sources, then gives teams dashboards to measure and act on the result. The table below lists its core facts, taken from Tech.eu's January 26, 2026 report, the company's announcement coverage and its website.
| Attribute | Detail |
|---|
| Company | Kime (kime.ai) |
| Category | AI visibility and GEO analytics platform |
| Headquarters | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Founder and CEO | Vasilij Brandt |
| Funding | €2 million pre-seed |
| Announced | January 26, 2026 |
| Lead investor | PSV Tech |
| Other investors | Nordic Makers and angel investors in Copenhagen and Stockholm |
| Core features | Brand visibility across prompts and AI platforms, competitor benchmarking, sentiment, share of voice, and the domains and publications that shape AI answers |
| Agency offer | Agency module for analyzing AI visibility across a client portfolio |
| Named agency partner | Bonzer, a specialist SEO agency in the Nordics |
| Early traction | More than 60 product demonstrations in November 2025, mostly with senior marketing leaders |
The company describes AI search as a new front door to the internet, and its mission is to make the resulting visibility gap measurable and give teams a way to act on it.
How much has Kime raised, and who invested?
Kime has raised €2 million in a pre-seed round led by PSV Tech. Nordic Makers took part, along with a group of angel investors based in Copenhagen and Stockholm. PSV Tech is a Danish early-stage fund, based in Kongens Lyngby, that targets pre-seed and seed-stage companies in sectors such as SaaS, fintech and deep science. Nordic Makers is a Copenhagen investor. The full category funding map sits in EPR's Capital Behind AI Communications tracker.
| Round | Amount | Announced | Lead investor | Other investors |
|---|
| Pre-seed | €2 million | January 26, 2026 | PSV Tech | Nordic Makers, angels from Copenhagen and Stockholm |
According to the announcement coverage, the money will expand the analytics platform, strengthen the brand visibility dashboards and support early commercial growth. Brandt said marketers are increasingly focused on how their brands appear in AI assistants, and that Kime's aim is to make that visibility measurable and actionable. The company also plans to grow beyond analytics into a broader AI marketing management layer, where teams can optimize their presence across several AI assistants from one place.
Kime's platform monitors how AI assistants represent a brand and turns the results into dashboards that marketing and communications teams can use in planning. In its current phase, the company says it is focused on analytics, and the feature set reflects that.
- Shows brand visibility across a defined set of prompts and across AI platforms.
- Benchmarks a brand against competitors in the same answers.
- Scores the sentiment of how AI assistants describe the brand.
- Reports share of voice, meaning how often the brand is named relative to rivals.
- Lists the domains and publications that inform AI responses, which tells PR teams where coverage matters.
- Offers an agency module, so an agency can see AI visibility across all of its clients in one view.
A 2024 paper at the ACM KDD conference, "GEO: Generative Engine Optimization," by Pranjal Aggarwal of IIT Delhi, Vishvak Murahari of Princeton University and co-authors, found that rewriting content with citations, statistics and quotations could raise visibility in generative engine responses by up to 40 percent, and that the gains varied by subject area. The paper is the academic basis for the discipline EPR explains in its GEO guide.
The "domains and publications" view is the feature most relevant to PR. Because AI assistants lean on a limited set of sources, knowing which publications feed the answers about your category helps a communications team decide where to pitch.
Who uses Kime?
Kime's most visible customer relationship is with agencies. In January 2026 the company formalized a strategic partnership with Bonzer, a leading specialist SEO agency in the Nordics. Bonzer uses Kime's technology to add AI search analytics on top of its existing SEO services and to give clients a combined view of visibility in traditional search and in AI answers. A Bonzer executive said clients already treat AI search as seriously as classic Google search, and that Kime supplies the data layer showing whether clients are mentioned, how they are framed and where the gaps are.
Beyond the agency channel, Kime says it ran more than 60 demonstrations in November 2025, mainly with senior marketing leaders and executive teams. The company has not published a long list of named brand customers, so the best public evidence of demand is the Bonzer partnership, the demo volume and the decision to build the agency module. Those details come from the company and its partners and have not been independently audited.
How does Kime compare with Profound, Brandlight and GenFlux?
As of November 3, 2026, Kime ranks ninth by total funding among the nine AI visibility companies in the table below, which is typical for a pre-seed company. Totals are the sum of publicly reported rounds, and each company links to its EPR profile where one exists.
| Company | Latest round | Total funding | Main buyer |
|---|
| Profound profile | $180 million Series D, September 15, 2026, led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins | $334.5 million | Enterprise brands |
| Bluefish profile | $43 million Series B, April 14, 2026, co-led by Threshold Ventures and NEA | $68 million | Fortune 500 brands |
| Brandlight profile | $30 million Series A, February 11, 2026, led by Pelion Venture Partners | About $36 million | Enterprise brands and agencies |
| Peec AI profile | $21 million Series A, November 2025, led by Singular | About $29 million | Mid-market brands and agencies |
| Evertune profile | $15 million Series A, August 12, 2025, led by Felicis Ventures | About $19 million | Enterprise brands |
| Yolando profile | $8.5 million total cumulative funding, January 26, 2026, from Drive Capital | $8.5 million | Marketing teams at B2B, consumer and retail brands |
| The Prompting Company profile | $6.5 million seed, October 2025, led by Peak XV Partners | $6.5 million | Software, infrastructure and developer tool companies |
| GenFlux profile | $4.2 million seed, February 10, 2026, led by Symbolic Capital | $4.2 million | Marketing teams and agencies |
| Kime (this page) | €2 million pre-seed, January 26, 2026, led by PSV Tech | €2 million | Marketing leaders and agencies in the Nordics and Europe |
Kime's distinctive angle is regional. It is one of the few funded AI visibility platforms built in the Nordics, and it pairs that position with an agency-first distribution model through partners such as Bonzer. Brandlight and Peec AI also work with agencies, while Kime is aiming at the same channel from a Copenhagen base.
What should PR and communications teams do with this news?
PR and communications teams should note that agencies and SEO specialists are already folding AI visibility data into client reporting, which means communications leaders will be asked for AI visibility numbers soon. AI assistants build answers by retrieving and summarizing sources, so the publications and domains they favor become a practical media list.
- Ask your agency or SEO partner whether it reports on AI visibility, and request a baseline for your brand and two competitors.
- Build a prompt set of 15 to 25 buyer questions, written as full sentences, and run it across the major assistants.
- Pull the domains and publications cited in the answers, and rank them by how often they appear.
- Add the top publications to your pitching plan, and update or correct your own pages where the answers repeat outdated facts.
- Re-run the same prompts after each change and record the date, so you can show which placements shifted the answer. EPR's AI visibility audit method shows how.
EPR's AI visibility section links the other funding profiles and measurement guides in this category.
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