Team StartupCity

• Bengaluru based Contrails AI secures $1 million in pre-seed funding co-led by Huddle Ventures and IAN Group.
• The company will use the funds to expand pilots across the US and EU in media, finance, and digital platforms.
• Its AI platform combats digital threats using deepfake detection, forensics, and multimodal analysis.

Trust and safety tech startup Contrails AI has raised $1 million in a pre-seed funding round co-led by Huddle Ventures and IAN Group. The new funding will help the company scale its pilots across the US and EU, focusing on industries like media, financial services, and online marketplaces.

Founded by Digvijay Singh and Amitabh Kumar, Contrails AI is building next generation safety infrastructure for internet companies navigating the rise of Generative AI (GenAI). The startup's mission is to protect digital ecosystems from manipulation, fraud, and cybercrime by combining deep-tech innovation with multimodal AI expertise.

Contrails’ proprietary platform provides real time forensics and manipulation detection, empowering platforms to identify and mitigate digital threats before they escalate. It analyzes video, image, audio, and text data simultaneously to detect deepfakes, phishing, and other malicious activities.

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The startup’s technology is gaining importance amid a surge in digital risks. According to market reports, deepfake files have grown 16 fold, from 500,000 in 2023 to nearly 8 million in 2025, while phishing attacks continue to cause global losses exceeding $17,700 every minute.

With this funding, Contrails AI plans to strengthen its trust and safety solutions and partner with global companies to build a secure, compliance ready digital ecosystem that restores confidence in online interactions.