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VeryAI Raises $10M to Fight Deepfakes and AI Bot Threats
VeryAI has raised $10 million in seed funding, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Berggruen Institute and Anagram.
The seed round, led by Polychain Capital with participation from Berggruen Institute and Anagram, will fund a hardware-free palm biometric identity system and an AI deepfake detection platform the company calls the Proof of Reality layer for the internet.
VeryAI has raised $10 million in seed funding, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Berggruen Institute and Anagram. The company, led by CEO Zach Meltzer, is building what it calls the Proof of Reality layer for the internet. It’s an infrastructure designed to help platforms determine whether accounts are operated by real humans and whether digital content is authentic or AI-generated.
Its first product is a hardware-free palm biometric verification system. The approach uses the unique structural features of the human palm as the basis for identity confirmation. Unlike facial biometrics, which are widely available online and increasingly replicable using generative AI tools, palm patterns are rarely publicly shared and harder to reproduce artificially. Rather than storing raw biometric images, VeryAI converts palm scans into irreversible feature representations that cannot be reconstructed back into the original biometric data, with verification events generating identifiers that confirm authentication without exposing personal identity information.
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Alongside identity verification, VeryAI is developing AI deepfake detection systems designed to analyse digital media and determine whether images, videos, or other content have been artificially generated or manipulated. Together, the two capabilities are framed as a combined answer to a growing infrastructure problem: platforms increasingly cannot reliably determine whether an account is human-operated or whether content is real, as bots can be created and run at scale and generative AI tools make identity signals easier to spoof.
The $10 million will be used to expand the engineering team, accelerate product development, and continue building out the broader Proof of Reality platform. VeryAI is operated by Veros Inc.
Source: VeryAI official blog post, March 12, 2026 (very.org). All facts sourced from the primary company announcement.
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