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Astroscreen
Detects social media manipulation campaigns
- 1-20 employees
- B2B
- Security
- Privacy
- Social Media
- Cyber Security
- Holborn, London, UK
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Company mission
Astroscreen employs machine learning models and human disinformation analysts to detect social media manipulation. Astroscreen is the early warning system for this information warfare.
33% female employees
Our take
Social media manipulation and disinformation is one of the biggest issues facing society today, given that social networks are now critical to how the public consumes and shares the news.
Fake social media accounts can be used in a highly organised way to spread and amplify minor controversies or fabricated and misleading content, eventually influencing other influencers and even news organisations.
The use of such disinformation to discredit brands has the potential for very costly and damaging disruption when a huge amount of a company's value is tied up in its brand.
Astroscreen is tackling this big problem, and its team has a great background to try. The company's CTO specialised in fake account detection during his PhD and discovered a massive botnet managing some 350,000 separate accounts on Twitter.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Funding (1 round)
Apr 2019
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $1m
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Leadership
Ali Tehrani
(CEO)Previously founder of Contractable.io, a Techstars company that was a SaaS media database for PR professionals
Juan Echeverria
(CTO)Computer Science PhD student, specialising in fake account detection on social networks