Blackbird.AI, an AI-driven cybersecurity company focused on protecting organisations and executives from narrative-based attacks, has announced a significant acceleration in its commercial momentum alongside a fresh injection of strategic capital.
The company said it has raised $28m in new funding, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures, Dorilton Ventures and cybersecurity industry leaders Dave DeWalt and Chris Young.
The latest round brings Blackbird.AI’s total funding since inception to $58m, underlining growing investor confidence in the company’s approach to tackling disinformation, misinformation and deepfake-driven threats.
Founded to address the rising risks posed by AI-generated narrative attacks, Blackbird.AI has developed an AI-based narrative intelligence platform designed to help enterprises, global brands and national security organisations identify and mitigate campaigns that can cause financial, operational, reputational and physical harm. The company says its technology is increasingly being adopted by Global 2000 companies and government-linked organisations facing a rapidly evolving threat landscape.
According to Blackbird.AI, the new funding will be used to accelerate go-to-market efforts, deepen customer support capabilities and further enhance its narrative intelligence platform. The company is aiming to expand the reach and sophistication of its tools as narrative attacks become cheaper to execute and more damaging in their impact.
The announcement comes as Blackbird.AI reports 118% year-on-year ARR growth and a threefold increase in customer wins. The company pointed to growing awareness of narrative warfare risks, particularly as the World Economic Forum has named disinformation among the top global threats for the second consecutive year. Blackbird.AI also referenced external industry research highlighting the scale of the challenge, including forecasts that enterprise spending to combat misinformation and disinformation will grow substantially over the coming years.
Blackbird.AI CEO and co-founder Wasim Khaled said, “The cost of narrative attacks has collapsed, and the consequences have exploded. Threat actors and nation states are operationalizing narrative warfare against countries, companies, and executives. Enterprises are losing clarity in decision-making due to AI-driven disinformation campaigns. Platforms are facing a massive risk of synthetic escalation. Agencies and cyber teams are scrambling for capabilities they cannot enable fast enough across a new threat attack surface.”
Dave DeWalt, CEO of NightDragon and former CEO of McAfee and FireEye, said, “Blackbird.AI stands at the forefront of narrative intelligence, offering a dominant approach to protecting organizations from this new threat of narrative-based disinformation attacks.”
Chris Young, former Microsoft EVP Strategy and Ventures and former CEO of McAfee, said, “Blackbird.AI has uniquely innovated using AI to unlock new and differentiated insights for its customers. They have assembled the right team that’s driving true market momentum.”
In addition to its funding and growth milestones, Blackbird.AI has received recognition from several industry bodies and analysts, announced new strategic partnerships, and launched additional product capabilities aimed at providing greater clarity around online claims and identifying AI-generated content.
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