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Pindrop provides voice authentication, fraud detection, and deepfake detection for contact centers and real-time communications. Its platform uses acoustic, behavioral, and AI-based analysis to identify legitimate callers and detect synthetic voice and audio deepfake attacks, serving banks, insurers, healthcare providers, and retailers.
Pindrop provides voice authentication, fraud detection, and deepfake detection for contact centers and real-time communications. Its platform uses acoustic, behavioral, and AI-based analysis to identify legitimate callers and detect synthetic voice and audio deepfake attacks, serving banks, insurers, healthcare providers, and retailers.
Founded in 2011 in Atlanta by Vijay Balasubramaniyan (CEO), his Georgia Tech thesis advisor Mustaque Ahamad, and serial entrepreneur Paul Judge. The company grew out of Balasubramaniyan's research on acoustic fingerprinting of phone calls at Georgia Tech and a VentureLab project called Telineage launched in 2010.
Pindrop was recognized by TIME Magazine as one of the Best Inventions of 2025 for its deepfake and voice fraud detection work.
Annual report found deepfake fraud attempts rose more than 1,300% in 2024, with synthetic voice attacks up 475% at insurance companies and 149% at banks; contact-center fraud attempts every 46 seconds in the U.S.
NICE expanded its partnership with Pindrop to integrate deepfake detection across its CXone contact-center platform.
Pindrop announced executive team additions to help companies protect against escalating fraud attacks as AI voice cloning threats rise.
Pindrop secured $100M in debt financing to accelerate fraud and deepfake detection technologies.
Co-Founder
Former director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) and Balasubramaniyan's thesis advisor; co-launched the VentureLab project Telineage that became Pindrop.
Co-Founder
Serial entrepreneur and Georgia Tech PhD who co-founded Pindrop with Balasubramaniyan and Ahamad in 2011.
$222M raised total