Reality Defender – a premier deepfake and AI-generated media detection platform – recently announced it has raised $15 Million in Series A funding. The funding 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.
Launched in 2021, Reality Defender offers enterprises, content platforms, and governments sophisticated solutions to proactively detect deepfake and AI-generated content across audio, video, images, and text. In only two years, the company 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.
Along with fundraising, Reality Defender also launched Explainable AI on the platform’s web application. Now available 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 rolling out on the Reality Defender platform in the coming months. And 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.
KEY QUOTES:
“Our incredible team built the only platform capable of stopping the most advanced threats of our time. Our new partners at DCVC not only believe in our platform and our team, but share our vision for growing Reality Defender to fully address the innumerable AI-enabled problems of tomorrow. We’re thrilled to work in lockstep with a group so equally passionate about our mission of stopping dangerous deepfakes and GenAI content for good.”
— Ben Colman, CEO and Co-Founder of Reality Defender
“While Generative AI has already created massive productivity boosts for products and companies, it has also significantly reduced the cost for bad actors to create fake news, media, voice, and even fake organizations to target individuals, institutions, banks and whole societies. In the face of this dire threat—a whole new cybersecurity category—Reality Defender’s best-in-class technology is leading the delivery of an absolute civil necessity: the ability to distinguish between what’s real and what isn’t.”
— DCVC General Partner Ali Tamaseb
