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Alethea

1233 20TH ST NW STE 520, Washington, DC, 20036, United States

Overview

Alethea builds Artemis, a multi-channel machine-learning platform that detects disinformation narratives across niche social media, alternative forums, extremist communities and other disparate data sources. The platform analyzes billions of data points in multiple languages to alert communications, risk, intelligence and security teams to malicious actors, vulnerable assets and threats of physical violence. Customers include Fortune 500 firms, private companies and nonprofits who use Artemis for early detection, prebunking and active risk management to protect reputations, assets and market value. The company plans to scale sales and marketing, expand and add functions to the team, and enhance Artemis features to deliver tailored solutions addressing evolving customer challenges. Led by founder and CEO Lisa Kaplan, Alethea emphasizes proactive defense against increasingly sophisticated disinformation adversaries. Financially, the company has raised a total of $34M to date following its most recent round. Alethea develops Artemis, a machine-learning SaaS platform that detects disinformation narratives across the internet. Artemis is in closed beta and the company leverages multi-channel machine learning to help Fortune 500s, private companies, and nonprofits proactively defend reputations, key assets, physical safety, and market value. The company intends to use the Series A proceeds to invest in Artemis by growing its engineering and data-science and engineering teams. Alethea focuses on detecting and mitigating disinformation, misinformation, and social media manipulation. The company was founded in 2019 and is woman-owned. It is based in Washington, D.C.

Total raised
$30M
Funding rounds
2
Latest round
Series B
Latest activity
Apr 2024

Industries

  • Cyber Security
  • Information Technology
  • Risk Management
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Recent funding

  1. Series B

    Apr 2024

    $20M

  2. Series A

    Nov 2022

    $10M

Team