Reality Defender
realitydefender.com
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AI Content Detection
Cybersecurity AI
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$36.9M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$17.5M
Venture round · Aug 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
42
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +20% in a year
Hiring now
2
open roles
Backers
4
Y Combinator, Illuminate Financial
The money's age
Long since its last round
25 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 18, 2025
Launched on Hacker News Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection
Aug 19, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $17.5M · SEC Form D
Sep 29, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $19.4M · SEC Form D
Jan 2022
Went through Y Combinator
2021
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.03%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Aug 2024 | $17.5M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Sep 2023 | $19.4M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Reality Defender, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Benjamin ColmanExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Milos FultonExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Y Combinator 
Illuminate Financial 
DCVC 
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Overview
Reality Defender detects synthetic audio, video and images in real time for banks, governments and media platforms. Founded in 2021 in New York, it emerged from earlier work on deepfake research and won industry innovation awards. Its detection runs as an API across multiple modalities at once.
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The agentic caller always rings at scale: Reality Defender explores new AI voice threat Biometric Update
AI-powered callers can mimic legitimate customers, consume support capacity and distort fraud and performance metrics at enterprise scale.
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The agentic caller always rings at scale: Reality Defender explores new AI voice threat Biometric Update
AI-powered callers can mimic legitimate customers, consume support capacity and distort fraud and performance metrics at enterprise scale.
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ZeroFox Integrates Reality Defender Deepfake Detection Into Threat Protection Platform
ZeroFox and Reality Defender have partnered to embed detection of AI-generated voice, video, and images directly into ZeroFox's external threat protection platform. The integration adds multimodal synthetic-media verdicts to the …
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ZeroFox Integrates Reality Defender Deepfake Detection Into Threat Protection Platform
ZeroFox and Reality Defender have partnered to embed detection of AI-generated voice, video, and images directly into ZeroFox's external threat protection platform. The integration adds multimodal synthetic-media verdicts to the …
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AI is giving life to a resurrection economy
As AI tools become more sophisticated, they're increasingly being used to imitate the voices and likenesses of the dead, with and without permission....
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AI is giving life to a resurrection economy
As AI tools become more sophisticated, they're increasingly being used to imitate the voices and likenesses of the dead, with and without permission....
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Reality Defender over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
28
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
73/100
Languages
Python
Bash
C#
SQL
Frameworks & libraries
Dagster
Ray
Databases
Delta Lake
Cloud & platforms
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
.NET
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28 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$165k
Typical range
$150k – $260k
Open positions
3
3
Jobs
Middle
33.3%
Senior
33.3%
Staff
33.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $165k | $165k |
| Senior | 1 | $150k | $150k |
| Staff | 1 | $260k | $260k |
Highest paying role
Staff Data Platform Engineer
$260k
Normalized to USD per year
People
Benjamin Colman
Executive Officer, Director
Milos Fulton
Executive Officer
Ali Shahriyari
Director
Ali Tamaseb
Director
Alexander Ross
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
54/100
Stable
Open positions
3
0 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
47 days
faster than 29% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Data Science
20% ▲
Backend
20% ▼
DevOps
20% ▼
Communications
20% ▲
Sales
20% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Teams to stack
Sep 2026
Added YouTube to stack
Sep 2026
Added Least Privilege to stack
Aug 2026
Added IAM to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
New York
New York
United States
HQ
3 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 33% remote 50-200 est. staff $192k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science, Communications, Sales
Jobs
$210k – $260k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • New York
Python
SQL
Databricks
Delta Lake
AI/ML
Spark
Dagster
Multimodal AI
Ray
Synthetic Data
Text-to-Speech
DevOps
Terraform
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Amazon S3
IAM
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