Ben Colman’s Post

“A few years ago, you were told your voice is your password. Now, with off-the-shelf tools, you could make a deepfake of me with less than ten seconds of audio.” Shortly after their win at this year's #RSACInnovationSandbox, we sat down with Ben Colman, CEO and Co-Founder at Reality Defender, to discuss the danger of AI-generated deepfakes and how Reality Defender is helping tackle that danger. Read the full interview here: https://buff.ly/3KBOJm6 Or listen to the conversation on the Expert Insights Podcast: https://buff.ly/3VCdVzh #expertinsights #realitydefender #deepfakes

How safe is your organization from #AI fraud? In our latest podcast, experts discuss how the democratization of #deepfake technology brings new perils for business—and how they can be mitigated. Guests: Mike Bechtel, chief futurist for Deloitte Consulting LLP Ben Colman, CEO of Reality Defender Check it out:

Reality Defender is now officially an alumnus of Intel Ignite! We're proud to have experienced the fourth cohort from this Intel Corporation-powered deep tech acceleration program, and we're already hard at work in integrating our learnings into the Reality Defender platform. Congratulations to our fellow startups!

Last night, we had an incredible gathering of the Penn Alum Founders Community - NYC with amazing founders, angels, and VCs. The event brought together Penn Alum Founders, who were actively seeking angel funding from Penn alum and non-alum angel investors. Special thanks to Ben Colman, Reality Defender CEO (YC'22) & Angel Investor, for sharing his invaluable insights on growth milestones, engaging with angel investors, and navigating the startup ecosystem. Reality Defender (Series A) helps organizations identify deepfaked audio, video, images and text. We discussed key topics, including: - The NYC tech ecosystem - Developing relationships with VCs & fundraising strategies - Building strong content and brand presence A huge thank you to Alumni Ventures and Chestnut Street Ventures (an Alumni Ventures Fund) for hosting our latest event at their gorgeous office. Your support is invaluable! Thank you Brian Keil & Meera Nair! Shoutout to Sean Ro of Lunar our drink sponsor. Lunar is a unique and fast-growing hard-seltzer brand offering tasty Asian flavors! You can find them at Whole Foods, H Mart, and more! A big thank you to our fantastic attendees! Founders: Ingrid Hung, Matthew Frankel, Tal Bar-Or, Rob Varady, Rohan Parikh, CFA, Lauren Nadan, Michael Rosenzweig, Martin P. Rufo, Eric Davich, Karen Ancel Investors: Jason Majlessi, Buchan R., Disha Karale, Meera Nair, Margarita Levitt, Juan Carlos Ibarra, Max Luo, Allison Kiang, Brian Keil, Meera Nair Over the past ~4 months, the Penn Alum Founders Community has experienced remarkable growth! From our WhatsApp group and Newsletter to our Founder Support Groups and more, it’s been a thrilling journey. 🌟 📩 Are you a Penn founder or aspiring to be one in NYC? Reach out and join our vibrant community! If you want to get involved as an investor or angel or share your Startup Program, please reach out! Let’s collaborate on events, share opportunities, and continue building a strong hub for entrepreneurship and connection. Let’s keep the momentum going and make the Penn Alum Founders Community - NYC the go-to place for innovation and support. 🚀

It's no surprise that scammers have been among the most avid early adopters of generative AI tools. We recently spoke with Ben Colman, CEO of DCVC portfolio company Reality Defender, about the critical importance of staying one step ahead of AI-supercharged identity fraud. 👇 https://lnkd.in/gCfQB3v2

Excited to share our work on audio-video deepfake detection, AVFF (https://lnkd.in/gekvjBYD) with my team at Reality Defender: Trevine Shane Oorloff, Surya Koppisetti, Nicolò Bonettini, Divyaraj Solanki, Ben Colman, Yaser Yacoob and Ali Shahriyari at #CVPR2024 this Fri, June 21 5:15-6:45P - Poster Session 6, Exhibit Hall. We fuse #multimodal A/V sync features from real videos and use this to detect spurious #deepfakes that lack such a sync. We achieve 98.6% accuracy and 99.1% AUC on the FakeAVCeleb dataset, and outperform current A/V SOTA by 14.9% and 9.9%, respectively.

Highlights | #NextTechOnTheBeach We were thrilled to partner up with SPROCKIT — the Global Open Innovation Platform — for this year’s exclusive #CannesNext investment summit! 🌴✨ “Next Tech on the Beach” brought together top deal-makers, investors, and start-ups (including QUANTIC BRAINS, Deeptune and Reality Defender) for a day of insightful talks and groundbreaking showcases. From AI fraud detection to revolutionary content localization, the event was packed with cutting-edge innovation drivers and unparalleled networking opportunities. 🤖🤝🚀 Thank you again to Sprockit CEO & Founder Harry M Glazer, as well as our industry guests, including Roy Conan Alonso Rising (QUANTIC BRAINS), Ben Colman (Reality Defender), Daniel De La Rosa (Sony Pictures Entertainment), Seneit Debese (Greta App), Margarita Grubina (Respeecher), Katrina King  (Amazon Web Services (AWS)), Christina Lee Storm (#Playbook), Tim Lupo (Deeptune) and Alex Petrenko (ZibraAI). And, of course, many thanks to our Head of Cannes Next, Sten Saluveer, and AC Coppens for moderating this half-day event with us at our beachside venue, Plage des Palmes! 🏖 Check out the photo highlights below! 📸👇