Cybersecurity startup Imper.ai has emerged from stealth mode with $28 million in funding from Redpoint Ventures, Battery Ventures, Maple VC, Vessy VC, and Cerca Partners.
The New York-based firm was founded in 2024 by Israeli intelligence veterans Noam Awadish, Anatoly Blighovsky, and Rom Dudkiewicz. They serve as Imper.ai’s CEO, CPO, and CTO.
Imper.ai is on a mission to identify AI-driven impersonation and social engineering attacks across video, voice, and chat communication platforms such as Zoom, Teams, and Slack.
The company says it can detect social engineering in real-time, at the first point of contact, through the analysis of security signals from multiple network devices and digital personas.
Threat actors have been using AI to generate deepfakes and voice clones that are increasingly difficult to detect, turning identity into the modern attack surface, Imper.ai argues.
The cybersecurity startup tackles the threat using organizational context and real-time risk scoring.
Attackers cannot fake behavioral markers, device telemetry, and network diagnostics, and Imper.ai’s agentless platform uses these digital fingerprints to block attacks across all communication channels.
“Impersonation isn’t just a feature of modern attacks – it’s becoming the primary threat vector. imper.ai is building what we believe will be a foundational layer of enterprise security: real-time verification at the point where human trust is most vulnerable. This is a category-defining company in the making,” Battery Ventures partner Barak Schoster said.
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