# imper.ai

> imper.ai is a New York-based cybersecurity company that builds an identity verification platform purpose-built for the workforce. It prevents impersonation and account takeover across the employee lifecycle - from hiring to help desk account recovery - by pairing an Impersonation Detection Engine that reads hundreds of network, device, and behavioral signals with an AI-driven contextual verification layer that confirms the real person behind a session using role-specific questions that cannot be sourced from breached data. Founded in 2024 by veterans of Israel's Unit 8200, the company launched publicly in December 2025 with $28M in total funding backed by Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Noam Awadish (Co-Founder & CEO), Anatoly Blighovsky (Co-Founder & CPO), Rom Dudkiewicz (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~37 employees (roughly 30 at public launch in Dec 2025, with a large share of R&D based in Israel and expansion planned through 2026)
- **Products:** Impersonation Detection Engine, AI-Driven Contextual Verification, Real-Time Risk Scoring & Policy Enforcement, Workforce Identity Security Platform
- **Notable:** Launched publicly in December 2025 with $28M in total funding., Raised a $21.5M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures., Debuted what it describes as the first Workforce Identity Security platform at RSAC 2026.

## Products & services

- **Impersonation Detection Engine** — Analyzes hundreds of environmental, device, network, and behavioral telemetry signals - device integrity, VM and virtualization artifacts, remote-control tooling, VPN patterns, geolocation - to detect attacker-controlled environments in real time and produce a dynamic risk score.
- **AI-Driven Contextual Verification** — Confirms the person behind a session through dynamic, role-based questions grounded in real enterprise work context - information that cannot be sourced from breached data or public records.
- **Real-Time Risk Scoring & Policy Enforcement** — Assigns live risk scores with policy-based thresholds that let security teams allow, restrict, or block a session instantly, integrated agentlessly into existing workflows.
- **Workforce Identity Security Platform** — Purpose-built platform launched at RSAC 2026 covering help-desk account recovery, secure hiring, and shadow-workforce protection across ITSM, HR, and ATS systems.

## Achievements

- Launched publicly in December 2025 with $28M in total funding.
- Raised a $21.5M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures.
- Debuted what it describes as the first Workforce Identity Security platform at RSAC 2026.
- Built an agentless platform compliant with SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and CCPA.
- Founded by three Unit 8200 veterans who identified the gap during wartime reserve service.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — imper.ai launched its Workforce Identity Security platform at RSAC 2026, positioning help-desk account recovery and secure hiring as core use cases.
- **2025-12** — Company emerged from stealth with $28M total funding, including a $21.5M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures.
- **2025-06** — Raised a $6.5M seed round to build real-time defense against AI-driven impersonation.

## Links

- Website: https://imper.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/imper-ai/

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Last updated: 2026-07-20