Reality Defender

Real-time detection of synthetic media.

Reality Defender

Real-time detection of synthetic media.

Overview

Reality Defender provides a platform that detects deepfakes and AI-generated media for enterprises, government, and institutions. It offers real-time detection across audio, video, images, and text through a web app and API, enabling integration into workflows such as call centers, secure video meetings, and KYC. The product uses a patented multi-model ensemble to identify AI manipulation without relying on watermarks or prior authentication, delivering risk scores in real time. It differentiates itself with its multi-format, real-time detection approach and proven enterprise deployments, including clients like Visa, Microsoft, NATO, and NBCUniversal, as well as its origins from a nonprofit research project. The company’s goal is to help organizations prevent fraud, disinformation, and security breaches by reliably detecting synthetic media as it appears in live streams and communications.

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About Reality Defender

Simplify's Rating

Why Reality Defender is rated

B-

Rated B on Competitive Edge

Rated B on Growth Potential

Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & AnalyticsGovernment & Public SectorEnterprise SoftwareCybersecurity

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$48.1M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2018

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What believers are saying

KPMG bought a minority stake, validating enterprise fraud and cyber demand.
BNY, Samsung Next, and Fusion Fund invested, expanding financial-services distribution.
ZeroFox and Charm Security integrations put Reality Defender inside existing security workflows.

What critics are saying

Reality Defender still misses AI-generated text and documents, leaving a major gap.
Gartner's Market Shaper status invites copycats from Microsoft, Google, and identity vendors.
If provenance platforms win, detection-only tooling becomes a feature, not a company.

What makes Reality Defender unique

RealCall, RealMeeting, RealAPI, and RealScan cover live calls, meetings, files, and browser review.
Gartner named Reality Defender a Market Shaper on June 25, 2026.
Its multi-model detection avoids watermarks and works across audio, video, and images.

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Funding

Total Funding

$48.1M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

3 Rounds

Notable Investors:

Y Combinator

Series A funding typically happens when a startup has a product and some customers, and now needs funding to scale. This money is usually used to grow the team, expand marketing, and improve the product. Venture capital firms are frequently the main investors here.

Series A Funding Comparison

Above Average

Industry standards

Ind Avg. $15M

$8.2M

$15M

$30M

$33M

Benefits

Remote Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

1 year growth

-2%

2 year growth

MSNBC

Sep 11th, 2026

KPMG acquires stake in deepfake detection platform Reality Defender

KPMG LLP has acquired a minority stake in Reality Defender, a platform specialising in deepfake detection. Financial terms were not disclosed. Reality Defender's multimodal detection technology integrates with communications platforms and enterprise workflows to assess the authenticity of voice and video in real time. This enables organisations to respond to suspected impersonation attempts and fraud. The investment will allow KPMG to incorporate deepfake detection capabilities into its cyber and fraud prevention practices. The deal forms part of KPMG's broader focus on helping clients adopt AI whilst managing associated risks. Reality Defender co-founder and CEO Ben Colman said highly convincing synthetic media now challenges traditional assumptions about identity verification. The partnership aims to help organisations strengthen defences against AI-enabled fraud.

Associated Press

Jun 2nd, 2026

ZeroFox partners with Reality Defender to detect AI-generated deepfakes in external threats

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.

PR Newswire

May 5th, 2026

Reality Defender forms ethics committee with Keith Enright, Luciano Floridi, and Yoel Roth

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.

Associated Press

Mar 18th, 2026

Charm Security partners with Reality Defender to add deepfake detection to AI workforce for fraud prevention

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.

PYMNTS

May 28th, 2025

Executives, Companies Using Ai Avatars Face A Patchwork Of Regulations

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.

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