brand-protection
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Affil.ai
Affil.ai is an AI-powered compliance and monitoring platform for financial affiliate marketing. It automatically reads the blogs, comparison sites and partner pages where affiliates promote a company's products, flags regulatory violations across thousands of pages, and turns each issue into a trackable ticket - letting banks, fintechs and other regulated brands scale affiliate programs without drowning in manual review. Founded in 2024 by John Ta, Vivek Olumbe and Vishal Vinjapuri, the company went through Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch and has raised about $500K.
Ennoventure, Inc.
Ennoventure is a deep-tech brand protection company that embeds invisible, cryptographic signatures directly into ordinary product packaging artwork. Using AI and cryptography, the signatures print with existing equipment - no new labels, materials, or hardware - and can be verified in about a second with an ordinary smartphone camera. Founded in 2018 by MIT Sloan alumnus Padmakumar Nair and technologist Shalini Nair, the company gives brands a scalable SaaS platform to authenticate products, detect grey-market diversion, monitor online marketplaces for counterfeits, and engage consumers, protecting global names such as Nestle and Unilever across pharma, FMCG, automotive, and more.
Cyble
Cyble is an AI-native threat intelligence company that continuously monitors the surface, deep, and dark web to help enterprises and governments detect, predict, and disrupt cyber threats before they cause damage. Founded in 2019 by Beenu Arora and Manish Chachada, the company packages dark web monitoring, digital risk protection, attack surface management, and agentic AI analysis into a unified platform used by organizations ranging from agile startups to Fortune 50 companies and national agencies.
DataWeave
DataWeave is an AI-powered digital commerce analytics company that helps consumer brands and retailers grow revenue and protect margins online. Its SaaS platform aggregates and analyzes public e-commerce data at massive scale to deliver pricing intelligence, digital shelf analytics, assortment insights, and brand protection to more than 400 global brands and retailers, including Zappos, Costco, and Home Depot.
Proof Authentication
Proof Authentication is a Boston-based technology company that builds anti-counterfeiting and brand-protection solutions for large consumer brands. Its patented approach pairs a non-duplicatable printed mark with a custom smartphone app, letting consumers verify a product's authenticity in seconds while giving brands real-time data to enforce against counterfeits. Formed in 2021 to acquire the DSS Digital division of Document Security Systems, the company is led by CEO Dan McKinnon, former Head of Global Brand Protection at New Balance, and serves Fortune 500 companies.
Private Information (Detective Indonesia)
Private Information - operating as Detective Indonesia under PT. Periskop Integriti Indonesia - is a Jakarta-based private investigation and corporate intelligence firm that has been gathering field verified facts since 2002. It serves companies that cannot afford to make the wrong decision, offering background checks, brand protection and anti-counterfeit programs, surveillance, counter-surveillance, and mystery guest audits across Indonesia, backed by an international network and intelligence-grade confidentiality protocols.
Ruvixx, Inc.
Ruvixx is a San Francisco-based SaaS company that helps licensing, brand protection and compliance teams turn scattered data into recoverable revenue. Its platform centralizes intellectual-property workflows - from lead detection to royalty reporting - pairing AI-driven analytics and OSINT with human expert teams. Trusted by enterprises like Dolby, Adobe, Trimble and Chaos Group, Ruvixx targets the trillion-dollar gap between what brands are owed and what they actually collect.
Loti AI
Loti AI is a Seattle-based startup that scans the public internet to find, verify, and remove unauthorized uses of a person's face and voice - including deepfakes, AI impersonations, scams, and leaked content. Founded in 2022 by Luke Arrigoni, Rebekah Arrigoni, and Hirak Chhatbar, the company began protecting A-list celebrities through talent agencies like WME and CAA, then opened a free consumer tier so anyone can claim control of their own likeness. Its automated takedown engine removes flagged content with roughly a 95% success rate, typically within about 17 hours.
Outtake
Outtake is an AI cybersecurity company that deploys autonomous agents to detect, investigate, and dismantle digital threats - impersonation, phishing, fake domains, cloned apps, malicious ads, and deepfakes - across the open web, social platforms, app stores, and the dark web. Founded in 2023 by ex-Palantir engineer Alex Dhillon, the New York company turns threat detection-to-takedown into a single automated workflow, averaging takedowns in about 14 hours, and protects brands including OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Anthropic.
Doppel
Doppel is an AI-native security platform for social engineering defense. It protects brands, executives, and employees from AI-powered impersonation, phishing, and fraud by detecting threats across social media, domains, marketplaces, and the dark web, correlating attack signals into a unified Threat Graph, and automating takedowns of attacker infrastructure. Founded in 2022 by Kevin Tian and Rahul Madduluri, the company analyzes over a billion indicators daily and protects dozens of Fortune 500 brands.
Wiser Solutions, Inc.
Wiser Solutions is a San Mateo-based retail intelligence company that gives brands and retailers real-time data and insights to win at the moment a shopper decides to buy. Its SaaS platform spans price intelligence, MAP monitoring, market intelligence, and in-store retail execution - tracking more than 10 billion products, 150,000 sellers, and 600,000 stores across 45+ countries. Trusted by 700+ global brands and retailers including Amazon, Ferrero, Beko, and Best Buy.