Reality Defender
deepfake detection
Source: ycombinator.com
All 2 rounds ↓Signals
X account@DetectDeepfakes · created Mar 11, 2022 (4 years old) · 1,029 followers
Website registeredDec 7, 2014 (11 years old)
Funding rounds
- X account created
- Website created
- Date unknownRound · $500K*Source: ycombinator.com
- Batch 2
AAI Grant · batch
Source: aigrant.com
Founders and team
BC
Ben Colman Co-Founder/CEOLinkedIn · source: foundertrace.comAS
Ali Shahriyari Co-Founder & AdvisorLinkedIn · source: foundertrace.comLB
Lars Buttler, PhD Co-FounderLinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com
Investors
Companies like Reality Defender
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IIlluma Labs$9M · Sep 2024
DDuckDuckGoose$1.39M Pre Seed · Jun 2024
RReagvis LabsPre Seed · Sep 2026
Sources and API
Every amount links to the page it came from. * Estimated from an accelerator's published standard deal, not a company-specific disclosure. How Recent Funding sources and verifies funding data. The same data as JSON: /api/v1/companies/reality-defender (get a free API key).