New Investment Opportunity: Cyabra
Detecting online disinformation and measuring its impact
- Information verification platform analyzes public information on social networks to identify, protect against disinformation and reputational damage from troll farms, bots, malicious online actors
- $2.8M contracted ARR in January 2022, 180% YOY growth from January 2021 ARR
- Non-invasive, patent-protected AI technology spots emerging threats and narratives in public sources before they achieve traction, enabling mitigation; developed by alumni of elite IDF cyber defense units
- Customers include CNN, TBWA, Deloitte, Warner Media, US State Dept., governments, financial institutions, media, consumer brands
- SAFE at 20% discount to upcoming Series B
Dear Josb,
An estimated $400M is spent each year on the spread of fake news, used to manipulate the stock market, harm business reputations, influence elections, and sow discord.
OurCrowd is investing in Cyabra, an Israeli information verification platform whose AI-driven tools help clients understand online narratives, discover trends, and impact public opinion quickly, before bots and trolls hijack the story. The details in this email are based on information received from, and verified solely by, the company.
The Problem
The UN describes the unprecedented spread of disinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic as a "disinfodemic." The World Health Organization says an incalculable number of pandemic-related hospitalizations and deaths were caused by Covid-related misinformation. Nike and Samsung saw their reputations suffer after two fake articles racked up millions of Facebook engagements. In the 2020 US election there were billions of views on sites spreading political misinformation.
The Solution
Current solutions for combating disinformation are focused on identifying false information and biased manual fact-checking.
Cyabra's patent-protected software, developed by veterans of elite Israeli Military Intelligence cyber-defense units, goes far beyond identifying false information. The company's AI-powered solution analyzes over 600 different metrics in minutes, quickly identifying bots, sock puppets, and trolls, and recommends remediation strategies. Cyabra determines the truth of a particular post, analyzes the author, and shows how the post fits into a larger disinformation campaign.
Cyabra's platform identifies fake news attacks before they become viral, giving companies and agencies the ability to stem the rapid spread of disinformation and/or provide evidence to the public of disinformation campaigns.
Commercial Traction
Cyabra is growing rapidly and has contracted ARR of $2.8M as of January 2022, an increase of 180% compared to $1M ARR in January 2021. Customers include CNN, TBWA, Deloitte, Warner Media, the US State Dept., governments, financial institutions, media, and consumer brands. Cyabra has a strong pipeline consisting of both public and private sector organizations.
The Round
This SAFE has a valuation cap of $40M and a 20% discount to an upcoming Series B.
Meet the CEO
We're hosting a webinar on Monday, February 28th, at 7PM Israel / 12PM New York / 9AM San Francisco for investors to meet CEO Dan Brahmy, and learn more about Cyabra.
Can't make the webinar? Register and we will send you a recording of the call.
The Cyabra Solution
Cyabra's SaaS platform focuses on:
- Measuring the spread of influential content
- Distinguishing between real, bad and fake authors
- Measure the proliferation of nefarious content (i.e., the snowball effect)
Cyabra gathers publicly available information, i.e., open-source intelligence (OSINT). This refers to the collection of data from publicly available sources such as television, radio, newspapers, commercial databases, internet, media, and others. Its OSINT autonomous tools provide real-time analysis reports to organizations and the public sector.
Users search for specific hashtags and keywords. The company's proprietary algorithms classify profiles as real profiles, fake profiles, or bad actors. The platform provides visual clusters showing the relationships between real and fake profiles, helping to identify the orchestrator of disinformation campaigns and their respective impact on communities of genuine authors.
Next steps:
0 Comments