After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action

After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action

After her grandfather was scammed by a deepfake of his brother's voice, Tarini Padmanabhuni founded DetectifAI, a San Francisco startup building AI models small enough to run directly on smartphones and flag fake voices in real time, and it's now one of the companies competing in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt.

DetectifAI Develops Voice-Authentication Models to Combat Deepfake Scams

The San Francisco startup is building tools that detect synthetic speech and verify speakers across phones, cloud systems, private infrastructure and telephony networks.