Modulate Raises $25 Million to Advance Deepfake Detection
Modulate raised $25 million to expand Velma, its real-time audio AI for deepfake and voice-abuse detection.
Frontier AI firm Modulate raised $25 million from Future Ventures, with Hyperplane and Lakestar participating, bringing total funding to $60 million. Its Velma platform uses a proprietary Ensemble Listening Model architecture and more than 100 specialized models to detect emotion, tone, intent, synthetic speech, and conversational behavior in real time. Modulate says it analyzes over 10 million audio hours monthly and more than 600 million hours overall, and that its transcription and deepfake-detection models ranked first on public benchmarks including Hugging Face. The company claims Velma is twice as accurate as traditional LLMs with seven times fewer false positives; the funding will expand its team, infrastructure, APIs, and SDKs.
- A $25 million round lifts total funding to $60 million.
- Velma combines over 100 models for real-time voice analysis.
- Modulate analyzes more than 10 million audio hours monthly.
- Funds will expand models, APIs, SDKs, and infrastructure.
- Vendors
- Modulate
- Products
- Velma
- Organizations
- ModulateFuture VenturesHyperplaneLakestar
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