Reken, a Stealth Cybersecurity Company, Raises $10 Million in Seed Money

Reken, a January 1, 2024-founded AI-defense cybersecurity company, announced on January 31, 2024, that its $10 million seed round had been oversubscribed despite the lack of a publicly displayed product. Later this year, the product will be unveiled.

The money will be utilized for additional research and development (R&D) on an unidentified product. It is being led by Greycroft and FPV Ventures and includes contributions from Firebolt Ventures, Fika Ventures, Omega Venture Partners, Homebrew, and JAZZ Venture Partners. Marcie Vu, a partner at Greycroft who oversaw Google's IPO, has joined the Reken board.

The quick turnaround from founding to funding demonstrates meticulous preparation and strong investor faith in the Reken team and the upcoming product. Rich Griffiths (COO) and Shuman Ghosemajumder (CEO) founded the company. Ghosemajumder was the global head of product for trust and safety at Google before serving as the CTO of Shape Security (which F5 later acquired) and the head of AI at F5. Griffiths was Shape's vice president of products.

Reken is creating a multi-layered platform defense against AI cybercrime by fusing elements of technological content analysis with zero trust, the standard defense against all forms of fraud, on the source. Their goal is to identify adversarial deepfakes and other malicious AI content at scale.