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Trust and safety-tech AI startup Contrails AI has raised $1 million in a pre-seed funding round co- led by Huddle Ventures and IAN Group.
The fresh funds will be used to fuel the US and EU pilots running across industries such as marketplaces, media houses, financial firms, and leading digital platforms, Contrails said in a press release.
Co-founded by Digvijay Singh and Amitabh Kumar, Contrails AI aims to safeguard internet companies in the age of GenAI. The company delivers solutions trusted by marketplaces, media houses, financial services, and global digital platforms.
According to the Bengaluru-based startup, it combines deep-tech innovation with multimodal AI expertise to engineer a compliance-ready safety infrastructure that safeguards digital ecosystems globally. By partnering with the companies in services and technology, the startup aspires to drive adoption of trust & safety solutions while building an interconnected, secure digital ecosystem.
Contrails’s proprietary forensics and manipulation detection AI delivers real-time analysis with layered explainability, enabling platform review teams to detect, assess, and act on threats proactively. The platform tackles the threat of cyber crimes with a multimodal approach across video, image, audio, and text, merging fraud detection with forensic DNA analysis and global data expertise.
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