Deepfake detection and takedown service Loti AI has secured an extra $16.2 million in sequence A funding led by Khosla Ventures with extra investments from FUSE, Bling Capital, and Ensemble. This brings the startup’s whole raised thus far to $23 million.
Loti AI is working to drive growth and market growth of its likeness safety expertise, which initially launched for public figures and celebrities. More just lately, it launched a client providing for anybody “who wants to safeguard their digital reputation.” The firm maintains strategic partnerships with WME and CAA.
“Our thesis around Loti is simple. Generative AI enables new deepfake technology that creates new risks and challenges around fraud and trust — challenges that celebrities, influencers, and brands are not prepared for today. And Loti has world class technology paired with a category leading product that has proven itself by protecting A-list celebrities, household name brands, and individuals and local businesses from threats,” stated Khosla Ventures’ Jon Chu in a launched assertion.
Added founder and CEO Luke Arrigoni, “At Loti AI, we are committed to putting people at the center of AI, ensuring individuals have effortless control over their digital identities. Our vision is a future where personal autonomy and technological progress exist in harmony — fostering creativity and benefiting society.”
Founded in 2022, Seattle-based Loti AI’s AI-driven tech is aimed toward detecting and eradicating unauthorized likeness content material, together with social media impersonations, deepfakes, voice simulations, and leaks. In addition to WME and CAA, Loti maintains a partnership with leisure advertising and marketing and manufacturing agency Dolphin whose subsidiaries — companies together with 42West, The Door, Shore Fire, Special Projects and Elle Communications — have entry to Loti’s instruments.