Contrails AI Raises Dolar 1M Pre-Seed to Advance Its Multimodal AI Engine for Tackling Growing GenAI Threats
Bangalore, October 9, 2025: Contrails AI, a Trust & Safety-tech AI startup, raised $1M in a pre-seed round, led by Huddle Ventures and IAN Group. Founded by Digvijay Singh (AI Researcher and Product Leader) and Amitabh Kumar (Global Trust & Safety Practitioner), Contrails AI is on a mission to safeguard internet companies in the age of GenAI.
The internet, once a space for connecting humans and sharing knowledge and experiences worldwide, is now flooded by bots and “AI slop,” leading to an explosion of machine-made, uncontrolled, and unrestrained content online.
This shift pushes us closer to a “dead internet,” where 99.99% of content is counterproductive or malicious AI-Generated Content (AIGC). Consequently, it will erode digital trust and accelerate threats like brand and identity theft, social engineering at scale, critical misinformation, online illegal abuse, and outright financial fraud.
Contrails AI is reimagining how platforms manage risk and govern GenAI content. Its proprietary Forensics & Manipulation Detection AI delivers real-time analysis with layered explainability, enabling platform review teams to detect, assess, and act on threats proactively. As AIGC proliferates beyond human-scale moderation, Contrails AI helps create walled gardens of trusted, safe environments, preserving user trust and platform integrity.
AI-powered cyberattacks are surging in both volume and form factor. Easy access to GenAI and media manipulation tools has led to over half of organisations seeing weekly phishing attacks, resulting in losses of dolar 17,700 every minute. Additionally, two out of three Fortune 500 company executives have encountered a deepfake or voice spoof attack.
Existing solutions are often limited to a single modality or locally limited coverage. Contrails AI tackles this threat with a multimodal approach across video, image, audio, and text, merging fraud detection with forensic DNA analysis and global data expertise.
This pre-seed funding accelerates the company’s zero-to-one journey by fueling the US and EU pilots running across industries such as marketplaces, media houses, financial firms, and leading digital platforms.
Commenting on Contrails AI’s mission to redefine digital content safety, Amitabh Kumar, Co-Founder, shared, “Trust & Safety is no longer a back-office concern; it has become a boardroom priority. At Contrails AI, we translate complex safety challenges into strategic advantages, spanning across policy, content moderation, and AI guardrailing. This allows us to build moderation and governance frameworks powered by AI, helping digital platforms scale while balancing automation and human oversight.”
“Digital content, online communities, and the internet are going to explode because of the acceleration brought on by GenAI technologies. We are on a mission to safeguard online spaces and ensure that these communities thrive in a safer, intended way. For the past decade, we’ve been closely monitoring the evolving tactics, tools, and emerging attack surface area of bad actors. Contrails AI is our answer, an enterprise-grade solution engineered to proactively safeguard the digital communities of today and tomorrow at scale,” added Digvijay Singh, Co-Founder, Contrails AI.
From 500,000 in 2023 to 8 million in 2025, deepfake files have grown 16-fold, prompting stronger investor and regulatory demands for user protection online.
“By rebuilding Trust & Safety on the internet, Contrails AI is solving one of the biggest challenges endured by today’s digital era. It is well-poised to build a product in an industry where the inflection point is arriving soon. The teams’ credibility within this space is crafted well to deliver a truly global solution. With a multimodal approach and founder-led vision, they are in a league of their own, and we wish the team the best in their ambitious endeavour,” said Sanil Sachar, Partner, Huddle Ventures.
Ajai Chowdhry, Board Member, IAN Group, and Co-Founder, HCL, pointed out, “The team at Contrails AI is tackling digital content risk with unmatched precision and enterprise-ready solutions, setting a benchmark for the industry.”
Contrails AI combines deep-tech innovation with multimodal AI expertise to engineer a compliance-ready safety infrastructure that safeguards digital ecosystems globally. By partnering with the world’s leading innovators in services and technology, the company is driving adoption of Trust & Safety solutions while building an interconnected, secure digital ecosystem.