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Reality Defender provides a deepfake and AI-generated media detection platform for enterprise, government, and institutional clients. It uses a patented, multi-model ensemble to detect AI manipulation across audio, video, images, and text, delivering real-time risk scoring without watermarks or prior authentication. Access is via a web app and API, with integrations like a Zoom plugin to analyze feeds in real time for use cases such as call-center security, secure video conferencing, and KYC. The company aims to prevent deepfake-related fraud and misinformation by delivering trusted media insights to large organizations, with clients including Visa, Microsoft, NATO, and NBCUniversal, and funding to expand its technology in the financial sector.
About Reality Defender
Industries
Government & Public Sector
Enterprise Software
Cybersecurity
Financial Services
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$48.1M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2018
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- ZeroFox launched a June 2026 integration, proving external-threat distribution into security operations.
- Charm Security partnership and BNY-backed investments deepen financial-services adoption in 2026.
- The May 2026 ethics committee strengthens trust with governments, regulators, and cautious buyers.
What critics are saying
- OpenAI and Google expanded provenance and watermarking in May 2026, compressing differentiation.
- If attackers shift to stripped audio and synthetic agents, detection accuracy erodes quickly.
- A superior native trust layer from Microsoft, Zoom, or OpenAI would commoditize Reality Defender.
What makes Reality Defender unique
- Reality Defender’s multimodal RealAPI embeds detection into ZeroFox and Charm workflows.
- Its patented ensemble detects audio, video, images, and text without watermark dependence.
- Ben Colman’s team pairs cybersecurity, fraud, and ethics expertise with enterprise and government credibility.
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Total Funding
$48.1M
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↓ -1%ZeroFox, a global enterprise threat protection company, has partnered with Reality Defender to integrate AI-generated media detection into its platform. The collaboration addresses the growing threat of synthetic media used in impersonation campaigns and social engineering attacks. Through the integration, Reality Defender's RealAPI provides multimodal detection verdicts on voice, video and images directly within ZeroFox's Discover, Validate, Disrupt workflow. This enables analysts to identify, verify and take down synthetic media campaigns without leaving their existing platform. The partnership targets threat actors using AI-generated content to impersonate executives and undermine brands. Both companies will demonstrate the integration at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit in Maryland and Black Hat USA in Las Vegas this year.
Reality Defender, an enterprise deepfake detection company, has formed an Ethics Committee with three founding members to guide the development of its detection technology. The committee includes Keith Enright, chief strategy officer at Harvey AI and former chief privacy officer at Google; Luciano Floridi, founding director of the Yale Digital Ethics Center; and Yoel Roth, senior vice president of trust and safety at Match Group. The committee will advise on policy and governance issues related to detection infrastructure deployment and accountability measures. Reality Defender's multimodal platform identifies AI-generated voice, video and images in real time across contact centers, video meetings and content workflows. The committee begins meeting this month and will inform decisions across product, policy and partnerships as the company expands its detection platform.
Charm Security has partnered with Reality Defender to integrate deepfake detection capabilities into Charm's agentic AI workforce for fraud prevention. The collaboration enables financial institutions and enterprises to access real-time deepfake detection for voice, image and text through Charm's AI agents. The integration allows Charm's agents to directly invoke Reality Defender's technology to assess whether communications are authentic or manipulated, eliminating the need for teams to switch tools. This builds on Charm's Psychology-First Fraud Agents, which use the company's Human Vulnerabilities & Exploits model to provide insight into human intent and deception. Both Charm and Reality Defender are RSAC Innovation Sandbox companies, with Reality Defender winning the 2024 award. The partnership aims to help organisations respond to deepfake-enabled fraud more quickly whilst maintaining human context in security workflows.
The recent spate of executives and companies using AI avatars to interact with investors and clients poses this question: What are the regulatory implications of using one’s digital doppelganger for business? Last week, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski used his AI avatar to deliver the company’s first-quarter earnings highlights. He did disclose that it was his [] The post Executives, Companies Using AI Avatars Face a Patchwork of Regulations appeared first on PYMNTS.com.
Reality Defender, a deepfake and AI-generated media detection platform, announced strategic investments from BNY, Samsung Next, and Fusion Fund to combat deepfake threats. These investments aim to enhance Reality Defender's technology to protect financial and communication channels from deepfake-enabled fraud. The company was named Most Innovative at the 2024 RSA Innovation Sandbox. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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About Reality Defender
Industries
Government & Public Sector
Enterprise Software
Cybersecurity
Financial Services
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$48.1M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2018
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