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Reality Defender

Enterprise-grade deepfake detection

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21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Security
  • Privacy
  • Identity
Manhattan, New York, NY

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Company mission

To help companies, governments, and journalists determine if media is real or fake, focusing on audio, video and image manipulation.

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Our take

Reality Defender was born out of The AI Foundation to help protect the 2020 US Elections from the threat of deepfakes. It officially launched as a company in 2021, based in New York. Today there continues to be a genuine issue where the public cannot decipher what is true or false online due to the existence of easily-created deepfakes.

Reality Defender's platform empowers enterprises to highlight and flag fraudulent users and content found online. Its API and app also provide risk scoring, reporting, and forensics review.

Reality Defender was selected as part of Y Combinator’s 2022 batch, the same backing received by Monzo, Airbnb and Stripe in their early days. This backing paired with the founding team’s experience of over twenty years at Google, Goldman Sachs, and the Intelligence Community, as well as its 2023 award win, has worked well for this very early-stage startup.

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Company values

  • Powered By Purpose: Reality Defender is not just a company,. We are a dedicated collective working to combat the most pressing digital threats in the modern era
  • Championing Innovation: Detecting deepfakes at the highest level requires out-of-the-box thinking only our team can manage
  • A Collaborative Spirit: We approach deepfakes with the mindset and thinking of a research lab, to combat the constantly evolving challenges of ever-advancing artificial intelligence

Leadership

Gaurav Bharaj

(Co-Founder)

Previously the Chief Science Officer at Flawless, the Vice President of Research for The AI Foundation and a Senior Researcher for Technicolor.

Ali Shahriyari

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Previously acted as the Director of Product for The AI Foundation and as a Vice President for Originate.

Ben Colman

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Co-founded PlaceAVote. Previously acted as NYC Lead for Xoogler.co, CEO for Convertix, and Vice President for Goldman Sachs.

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