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Built by researchers from

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyIntel

Add our trust layer in your

workflows

Built with teams shaping digital trust.

DIRO
Z Media
Tata Communications
Capgemini
Samsung NEXT
FinChat

Backed to build. Supported to scale.

Inflection Point Ventures
Techstars San Francisco
Soonicorn Ventures
MIT SBXI
Google for Startups
NVIDIA Inception
Microsoft for Startups
OpenAI
AWS Startups

Investment, accelerator participation, and infrastructure support; these are not customer relationships.

Awards and recognition

Recognized across AI, security, and financial services.

First place

Everything AI Startup Pitch

New York Tech Week, presented bya16z
Judging panel included

OpenAI · AWS · Amazon Alexa Fund · FirstMark · IBM · Geek Ventures · Techstars

OpenAI
AWS
Amazon
FirstMark
IBM
Techstars
Geek Ventures

Neural Defend was the only Indian startup among ten global finalists at the Everything AI Startup Pitch Competition during New York Tech Week, presented by a16z. The company won first place and approximately $50,000 in equity-free prize funding.

Judges included Derek Canton, Startup Director at OpenAI; Amrita Sankar, North America Head of GenAI Startup GTM at AWS; and leaders from Amazon Alexa Fund, FirstMark, IBM, Geek Ventures, and Techstars.

The panel recognized Neural Defend’s real-time deepfake detection for strengthening trust in digital onboarding, identity verification, and fraud prevention across financial services and enterprise workflows.

AI · Security · Enterprise trust
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2026Award winner

Best Cybersecurity Startup Award

India AI Impact Summit · CyberPeace

Best Cybersecurity Startup Award, India AI Impact Summit 2026, Bharat Mandapam New Delhi
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2025Award winner

Top Cybersecurity Startup in India

Data Security Council of India

Data Security Council of India and Annual Information Security Summit 2025
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2025Top 12 AI Innovator

India’s Top 12 AI Innovators

NPCI · NVIDIA · Global Fintech Fest

NPCI, NVIDIA, and Global Fintech Fest
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2025Award winner

1st Runner-Up

DSCI Innovation Box

DSCI Innovation Box, National Centre of Excellence, and FinSec Conclave
DSCI Innovation Box and FinSec Conclave 2025 recognition badge
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2025Selected recognition

Pitch for Business

HDFC Bank

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Trusted by industry leaders

Evaluated by people building and protecting digital systems.

Perspectives from advisors, operators, and technology leaders who have reviewed Neural Defend.

Katerina Andreeva

AI Strategy Advisor, Ex-IBM

“Neural Defend is one of the few teams treating trust as the core problem rather than a feature.”

Vijayant Kumar

CTO, ZMedia

“The integration created a solution that is fast, accurate, and simple to use.”

Suresh K

CEO, Digi Yatra

“Prevention of deepfake attacks will become a hygiene factor for most of us.”

Devon Lyons

Sales Director, Prove

“We tested the system live—the accuracy and speed were outstanding.”

Vishal Gupta

Co-founder, DIRO

“The ability to detect deepfakes with precision, even from a few frames, is impressive.”

Ann C. Oleson

Interim CMO, Techstars

“Their proprietary AI detection tech absolutely stole the show.”

ARCAS 1B · Our foundation model

Public benchmark · VendorBench-100

#1 of 36 deepfake detection systems.

ARCAS 1B leads the public VendorBench-100 evaluation, ahead of specialist vendors and general AI models like Gemini, Claude and GPT.

36% higher detection score (MCC) than the next-best vendor.

Less than 200 ms on supported media

VendorBench-100 rankings

Detection quality score (MCC)

  1. 1Neural Defend0.876
  2. 2Reality Defender0.646
  3. 3Gemini0.389
  4. 4TruthScan0.322
  5. 5Claude Opus0.322
  6. 6Hive0.290
  7. 9Qwen0.267
  8. 11Sightengine0.258

All 36 systems

ROC-AUC vs MCC

0.000.250.500.751.000.20.40.60.81.0Next best: Reality Defender (0.646)Reality Defender. MCC 0.646. ROC-AUC 0.890.Gemini. MCC 0.389. ROC-AUC 0.700.TruthScan. MCC 0.322. ROC-AUC 0.923.Claude Opus. MCC 0.322. ROC-AUC 0.791.Hive. MCC 0.290. ROC-AUC 0.900.NTIRE2026 Deepfake. MCC 0.289. ROC-AUC 0.750.Dima806 AI vs Real. MCC 0.277. ROC-AUC 0.655.Qwen. MCC 0.267. ROC-AUC 0.678.SigLIP + DINOv2. MCC 0.259. ROC-AUC 0.649.Sightengine. MCC 0.258. ROC-AUC 0.702.Organika SDXL. MCC 0.233. ROC-AUC 0.677.DRCT. MCC 0.230. ROC-AUC 0.866.AIDFR Real v2. MCC 0.227. ROC-AUC 0.694.Nahrawy AIorNot. MCC 0.211. ROC-AUC 0.602.Ummmaybe ViT. MCC 0.201. ROC-AUC 0.761.Llama 4 Maverick. MCC 0.199. ROC-AUC 0.533.Nemotron Nano VL. MCC 0.196. ROC-AUC 0.632.Rine. MCC 0.187. ROC-AUC 0.737.GPT (OpenAI). MCC 0.135. ROC-AUC 0.621.CommFor ViT384. MCC 0.123. ROC-AUC 0.620.Yaya Source. MCC 0.075. ROC-AUC 0.482.Ash Flux ViT. MCC 0.072. ROC-AUC 0.650.King1oo1 DeepGuard. MCC 0.053. ROC-AUC 0.459.Haywood Sloan. MCC 0.038. ROC-AUC 0.508.DeCLIP. MCC 0.000. ROC-AUC 0.275.Date3k2 ViT. MCC -0.010. ROC-AUC 0.432.C2P-CLIP. MCC -0.038. ROC-AUC 0.385.GEND DINOv3-L. MCC -0.043. ROC-AUC 0.597.Jacob Distilled. MCC -0.063. ROC-AUC 0.439.OpenSight CommFor. MCC -0.100. ROC-AUC 0.517.AIDE. MCC -0.119. ROC-AUC 0.392.ZAI GLM5.2. MCC -0.152. ROC-AUC 0.470.Ateeqq SigLIP2. MCC -0.187. ROC-AUC 0.536.Sadra SDXL Face. MCC -0.260. ROC-AUC 0.282.Wvolf ViT. MCC -0.428. ROC-AUC 0.168.Neural Defend. MCC 0.876. ROC-AUC 0.979.Neural DefendROC-AUCMCC

Accuracy on 6 public academic benchmarksReported in the ARCAS 1B paper

Certified & independently assessed

Enterprise-grade multimodal protection. Fully compliant.

Certified across information security, privacy, and AI governance—with independently assessed controls for regulated deployment.

Data localization

Processing boundaries aligned to customer data-residency requirements.

On-premises available

Full deployment within customer-controlled infrastructure.

Regulatory alignment

IRDAI and CERT-In directives, with PCI DSS AOC coverage for payment integrations.

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Certifications

  • ISO/IEC 27001 certified

    ISO/IEC 27001

    Information security

  • ISO/IEC 27701 certified

    ISO/IEC 27701

    Privacy information

  • ISO/IEC 42001 certified

    ISO/IEC 42001

    AI management

  • SOC 2 Type II certified

    SOC 2 Type II

    Audited security controls

Independent assurance

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API VAPT

Periodic testing by CERT-In empanelled auditors

02

Data purging validation

No customer data retained after processing

03

AI/LLM security assessment

Aligned with the OWASP Top 10 for AI and LLM systems

04

AI impact assessment

Documented AIIA covering impact and governance

Why Neural Defend

Why Neural Defend?

Real-time detection

Detect supported media in less than 200 ms.

Fully owned foundation model

Proprietary deepfake detection technology developed and controlled entirely in-house.

Enterprise-grade scale

Built for high-volume, production-critical detection workflows.

Fully compliant

Certified across information security, privacy, and AI governance.

Two-line integration

Connect Neural Defend and receive a detection result with two lines of code.

Live in under 24 hours

Launch managed, on-premises, or air-gapped deployments in less than one day.

Product family

One connected product family. One trust approach.

The Neural Defend family brings together NeuroVerify for deepfake identity checks, NeuroDetect for AI-generated or manipulated media, NeuroCall for AI-generated calls and voice-cloning risk, and NeuroMeeting for live-person verification.

Select an instrument

Shared evidence surfaceIdentity package
Evidence → signed decision objectAttention
Instrument outputRisk alert
Possible deepfake identity evidence detected

NeuroVerify · Decision

Deepfake suspected

AI-generated identity-media indicators require manual review.

01Capture02Deepfake03Policy

Illustrative output · AI-generated identity-media indicators require manual review.

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