Doppel – an AI-native digital risk protection company – announced the successful completion of a $14 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from Strategic Cyber Ventures and seasoned cybersecurity leaders. This investment will accelerate Doppel’s mission to revolutionize brand security and threat intelligence through the application of artificial intelligence technology.
While the threat of AI impersonation, phishing, and disinformation campaigns continues growing exponentially, Doppel is turning the tables and using AI as a defense to help companies quickly detect and takedown dangerous content and the accounts responsible.
This kind of digital risk protection has been historically difficult for organizations to scale due to the manual nature of many security and IP operations. And scanning across numerous channels leads to noisy, delayed, and missed alerts. Takedowns include tedious forms to fill and back-and-forth communication with platforms. Escalations and incident response takes hours if not days.
Doppel’s AI-native architecture enables continuous monitoring, rapid detection, and seamless takedowns across traditional channels like web domains, social media platforms, and the dark web and emerging channels such as Telegram and crypto. AI and automation enable its analysts to operate at 10x greater efficiency with high signal-noise detection, faster takedowns, and average support response times in minutes. With deep platform integrations and strategic relationships, Doppel provides customers robust protection against phishing and cybercrime campaigns.
The new funding round will be used to further Doppel’s research and development, while expanding its global operations with customer support and sales. Doppel already supports major brands worldwide, including Coinbase, VSCO, and ARK Invest.
KEY QUOTES:
“We invested in Doppel because they are tackling mission-critical problems in brand security and social engineering that are accelerating with AI. This is the perfect marriage of a highly ambitious and technical team targeting large scale problems from first principles.”
— Zane Lackey, General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
“We are thrilled to partner with Andreessen Horowitz on the next phase of our journey. We started Doppel to tackle emerging threats in digital integrity with a new approach. Our team of Silicon Valley and traditional security talent has a singular focus to scale AI-native digital risk protection for our customers.”
— Kevin Tian, Co-Founder and CEO of Doppel
