# Neural Defend

> Neural Defend is a New York and Delhi-based cybersecurity startup building multimodal deepfake detection for enterprises. Founded in 2024 by MIT- and Intel-affiliated researchers, its proprietary AI spots AI-generated faces, manipulated video, cloned voices, and forged documents in real time - delivered as developer-friendly APIs and SDKs, plus on-premises deployments for banks, fintechs, and government. The pitch: make catching a deepfake as easy as an API call.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States (also Delhi NCR, India)
- **Founders:** Piyush Verma (Co-Founder & CEO), Sivashankar Selvarajan (Co-Founder & CTO), Sumit Singh (Co-Founder & Chief Data Officer)
- **Team size:** ~11 employees
- **Products:** Multimodal Deepfake Detection Platform, Detection APIs & SDKs, eKYC & Identity Verification, Video Conferencing Security, Hiring & Interview Integrity
- **Notable:** Raised $600K pre-seed led by Inflection Point Ventures with MIT SBXI and Techstars San Francisco (March 2025)., Secured four patents on proprietary deepfake detection technology., Presented at FinovateEurope 2025.

## Products & services

- **Multimodal Deepfake Detection Platform** — Proprietary AI that detects deepfakes and manipulation across video, audio, images, and documents, with real-time and on-premises deployment options.
- **Detection APIs & SDKs** — Developer-friendly APIs and SDKs that let engineering teams add deepfake and synthetic-media detection to their own products, priced per API call.
- **eKYC & Identity Verification** — Integrates with identity-verification and KYC pipelines, adding liveness detection and real-time face/voice authenticity checks to catch AI-generated impersonation.
- **Video Conferencing Security** — Plugins for platforms such as Zoom and Google Meet that flag deepfaked or masked participants during live calls, priced per minute.
- **Hiring & Interview Integrity** — Detects AI-generated avatars and impersonation in remote hiring and interview platforms.
- **Forensics & Investigations** — Pixel-level and audio forensic analysis with threat-level scoring for government, legal, insurance, and media use cases.

## Achievements

- Raised $600K pre-seed led by Inflection Point Ventures with MIT SBXI and Techstars San Francisco (March 2025).
- Secured four patents on proprietary deepfake detection technology.
- Presented at FinovateEurope 2025.
- Founder Piyush Verma named Forbes 30 Under 30 (2021).
- Emerged from MIT's Venture Mentoring Service with team from MIT, Harvard, IBM R&D and Intel.
- Reported ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications and pilots in New York and Singapore.

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Raised $600K pre-seed round led by Inflection Point Ventures, with MIT SBXI, Techstars San Francisco and Soonicorn Ventures, to accelerate multimodal real-time deepfake detection R&D.
- **2025-02** — Presented at FinovateEurope 2025, pitching deepfake detection for financial services.
- **2025-03** — Ran pilot projects in New York and Singapore with enterprises and financial institutions to validate its technology.

## Links

- Website: https://neuraldefend.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/neural-defend

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Last updated: 2026-07-03