Reality Defender

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Enterprise Deepfake Detection

Backed by Y Combinator · AI Grant

Winter 2022Founded 202154 peopleNew York, NY, USA

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About

Reality Defender is the market leader in deepfake detection, protecting enterprises and governments from realtime deepfake and agentic fraud. Sign up for free access at https://www.realitydefender.com/api Website: www.realitydefender.com Contact: ask@realitydefender.com YC AMA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30766050 Awards: 2025 - Gartner: Recognized as Market Leader in Deepfake Detection 2025 - JPMorgan: Inducted into Hall of Innovation 2025 - World Economic Forum: Named Technology Pioneer 2025 - USA DIU + Japan MOD: 1st Place "Global Innovation Challenge" 2024 - RSA Conference: 1st Place “Most Innovative Startup” 2024 - SINET16 Innovator Award 2023 - SXSW 1st Place "Artificial Intelligence, Voice, & Robotics Technologies"

From their website

as of Jun 7, 2026www.realitydefender.com ↗

API/InfraFreemium · Get started for free with 50 audio or image scans per month.

Reality Defender provides enterprise-grade deepfake detection to identify AI-generated and manipulated media in real time across multiple channels. It targets enterprises, platforms, and institutions to stop deepfakes before they cause harm, with an emphasis on API access and platform integrations.

Reality Defender offers real-time multi-modal deepfake detection that can be embedded across calls, meetings, access workflows, and executive communications. It provides an API and SDKs for developers to access detection models, with turnkey integrations and platform-agnostic techniques. The product suite includes tools like RealScan, RealAPI, RealCall, and RealMeeting, enabling image, audio, and video verification, along with an incident response framework and access to an enterprise authenticity layer integrated into existing systems.

Who it’s for: Enterprises, platforms, and government institutions seeking to protect communications, verification processes, and brand/executive security from AI-generated deepfakes.

Features

Real-time detection across calls and meetings
Multi-modal coverage across image, audio, and video
API and SDK access for developers
Platform-agnostic detection techniques
Incident response framework and playbooks
Enterprise-grade scale and turnkey integrations
Brand and executive protection capabilities

Awards and recognition (Gartner, RSA Innovation Sandbox, SINET16), active partnerships, and a developer-focused API/SDK offering with a free tier.

Founders · 1

Ben ColmanCEO & Co-Founder

Reality Defender is the market leader in deepfake detection, protecting enterprises and governments from realtime deepfake and agentic fraud. Sign up for free access at realitydefender.com/api Awards: 2025 - Gartner: Recognized as Market Leader in Deepfake Detection 2025 - JPMorgan: Inducted into Hall of Innovation 2025 - World Economic Forum: Named Technology Pioneer 2025 - USA DIU + Japan MOD: 1st Place "Global Innovation Challenge" 2024 - RSA Conference: 1st Place “Most Innovative Startup”

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Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Jul 2025

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We just made deepfake detection incredibly simple — with two lines of code

Reality Defender announces an enterprise-grade deepfake detection API and SDKs, now available to YC developers with 50 free scans per month. The product targets apps touching voice or image data to protect against AI-generated fraud, fake identities, synthetic media, and manipulated imagery across platforms.