AI Disinformation Intelligence Platform Blackbird.AI secured $10 Million funding

Blackbird AI, a New York-based AI-driven disinformation intelligence platform, has now secured $10 million in a Series A funding round.

Blackbird AI was founded by Wasim Khaled and Dr. Naushad UzZaman. AI startup helps organizations detect and respond to disinformation and manipulation that causes financial and reputational harm. 

The company's AI-driven constellation platform can help governments, and Fortune 500s to respond quickly to harmful information campaigns by surfacing complex insights and relationships within billions of data points in an instant.

Daniel Freeman of Dorilton Ventures said, "Industrialized disinformation is the scourge of the digital world. Until now, bad actors have operated with impunity from behind a cloak of confusion to distort reality for companies and private citizens alike. Dorilton Ventures is very proud to partner with Blackbird.AI to build a powerful platform that tackles this problem algorithmically and at internet speed and scale. This is a disruptive and transformative business that will protect organizations' media intelligence, reputation and, ultimately, their value. We look forward to sharing what promises to be a very successful journey with the Blackbird.AI team."

Dr. Naushad UzZaman, CTO and co-founder of Blackbird.AI, said, "Our system deconstructs the massive flow of information and exposes the underlying dynamics through a combination of signals related to narratives, networks, and how they are being influenced by manipulation and deception. We combine novel adaptive AI with practical engineering that allows us to operate at internet scale to provide interpretable quantitative insights that help our clients understand what matters and what doesn't."

The Dorilton Ventures led the latest funding round. Other participating investors include  Trousdale Ventures, Richard Clarke, Generation Ventures, StartFast Ventures, and NetX.

The company, as of now, has plans to use the new funds to scale up its sales and engineering teams. AI startup also intends to accelerate platforms adoption by a global client base, and fast-track new product development, notes the announcement.