Imper.ai Emerges From Stealth Mode With $28 Million in Funding

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 ...