imper.ai is a Brooklyn-based cybersecurity startup founded by cyber-intelligence veterans, led by co-founder and CEO Noam Awadish, to defend organizations against AI-driven impersonation and social-engineering attacks. Its agentless platform provides real-time identity verification and impersonation detection, analyzing device, network, and environmental signals to detect attacker-controlled environments and confirm a person's authenticity without documents or biometric enrollment. It covers major communication channels including Zoom, Teams, Slack, WhatsApp, and Google Workspace, and addresses use cases from help-desk vishing and hiring fraud to deepfake video and voice-clone attacks. imper.ai launched from stealth in December 2025 with a $28M round led by Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures, with Maple VC, Vessy VC, and Cerca Partners participating.
imper.ai
ActiveReal-time defense against AI-driven impersonation and deepfake attacks
Total raised
$28M
1 round
Stage
Seed
Team
11-50
since 2024
Pricing
Freemium
free plan
Founded
2024
Brooklyn, United States
Agent-ready
API
Score 40/100
Real-time impersonation and deepfake detection
Voice-clone and synthetic media defense
Agentless deployment
Device, network, and environment signal analysis
Identity verification without documents or biometrics
Coverage for Zoom, Teams, Slack, WhatsApp, Workspace
Help-desk vishing protection
Hiring fraud and shadow-workforce detection
40/100
Developing
MCP server
Public API
Webhooks
OAuth 2.0
SDKs
— Seed $28M incl. Battery Ventures +4
Capital network
$28M raised ·5 backers·10 network links
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- What does imper.ai do?
- It detects deepfakes, voice clones, and impersonation in real time across communication platforms.
- Is imper.ai agentless?
- Yes, the platform deploys without endpoint agents.
- Who funded imper.ai?
- A $28M round led by Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures, announced December 2025.
- Which platforms does it cover?
- Zoom, Teams, Slack, WhatsApp, and Google Workspace, among others.
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