Reality Defender is the market leader in deepfake detection, protecting enterprises and governments from realtime deepfake and agentic fraud. Sign up for free access at https://www.realitydefender.com/api Website: www.realitydefender.com Contact: ask@realitydefender.com YC AMA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30766050 Awards: 2025 - Gartner: Recognized as Market Leader in Deepfake Detection 2025 - JPMorgan: Inducted into Hall of Innovation 2025 - World Economic Forum: Named Technology Pioneer 2025 - USA DIU + Japan MOD: 1st Place "Global Innovation Challenge" 2024 - RSA Conference: 1st Place “Most Innovative Startup” 2024 - SINET16 Innovator Award 2023 - SXSW 1st Place "Artificial Intelligence, Voice, & Robotics Technologies"
Reality Defender is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2022 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Enterprise Deepfake Detection. The founder listed is Ben Colman (Founder/CEO) (Y Combinator directory entry, March 21, 2022).
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Reality Defender is the market leader in deepfake detection, protecting enterprises and governments from realtime deepfake and agentic fraud. Sign up for free access at https://www.realitydefender.com/api
Website: www.realitydefender.com
Contact: ask@realitydefender.com
YC AMA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30766050
Awards:
2025 - Gartner: Recognized as Market Leader in Deepfake Detection
2025 - JPMorgan: Inducted into Hall of Innovation
2025 - World Economic Forum: Named Technology Pioneer
2025 - USA DIU + Japan MOD: 1st Place "Global Innovation Challenge"
2024 - RSA Conference: 1st Place “Most Innovative Startup”
2024 - SINET16 Innovator Award
2023 - SXSW 1st Place "Artificial Intelligence, Voice, & Robotics Technologies"
Ben Colman
Founder/CEO
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