Reality Defender, a NYC-based provider of an AI-generated media detection platform, raised $15M in Series A funding.
The round was led by DCVC, with participation from Comcast, ex/ante, Partnership Fund for New York City, Rackhouse Venture Capital, and Nat Friedman’s AI Grant.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its business reach.
Led by Ben Colman (Co-Founder, CEO), Ali Shahriyari (Co-Founder, CTO), Gaurav Bharaj (Co-Founder, Head of R&D), Reality Defender provides enterprises, content platforms, and governments with solutions to proactively detect deepfake and AI-generated content across audio, video, images, and text.
In addition to fundraising, Reality Defender has launched Explainable AI on the platform’s web application. Available today for all clients using Text Detection, Explainable AI enables clients to scan a document and see color coded paragraphs of AI-generated text. Explainable AI for audio, video, and image detection will continue to roll out on the Reality Defender platform in the coming months. The company has also launched real-time voice deepfake detection to select clients, allowing call centers and anti-fraud teams to detect the use of manipulated or fabricated media as it happens.
In two years, Reality Defender has partnered with enterprises, governments, and platforms to detect millions of deepfakes, deflect state-sponsored attackers, stop disinformation, and prevent advanced voice fraud in real time.
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17/10/2023