The AI wars just got messier, and smarter. Doppel just locked in $35M in Series B funding to scale what might be the most underrated weapon in the cybersecurity arsenal, an AI native defense grid built not just to monitor threats, but to neutralize them. In real time. Across the digital spectrum.
Founded in 2022 by Kevin Tian and Rahul Madduluri, two ex-Uber engineers who cut their teeth building out the infrastructure for flying cars (Uber Elevate, yeah, that one), Doppel started as a rogue operator in crypto, sniffing out NFT fakes before your wallet knew what hit it. But crypto was just the training ground. The real war? Enterprises under siege from AI-enabled social engineering attacks moving faster than legacy security stacks can respond. Doppel doesn’t just detect impersonations and phishing attempts. It burns them down with AI agents trained to move like predators, not protocol-driven help desk scripts.
The $35M came in hot with Bessemer Venture Partners leading the round, joined by new backers 9Yards Capital and Sozo Ventures. That’s alongside return firepower from Andreessen Horowitz, South Park Commons, Strategic Cyber Ventures, Script Capital, and Sabrina Hahn. That post-money valuation? $205M. That growth? 3x ARR since Series A. That energy? 400% increase in enterprise customers. That’s not hype. That’s velocity.
This isn’t your daddy’s cybersecurity. Doppel’s platform handles 100 million phishing threat alerts a day, hunting through domains, social platforms, and dark web gutters. And it doesn’t flinch. With ~90% accuracy and agents that autonomously detect and destroy fake profiles, shady links, and digital scams, Doppel has become the enterprise answer to AI-fueled chaos. Brands like Coinbase, VSCO®, and ARK Investment Management LLC already tapped in. The rest of the market is catching on.
There’s swagger in the story, but there’s substance in the stats. $0 to $2.1M in revenue in a single year. A 230% CAGR since inception. A 29-person squad going toe-to-toe with nation-state-level digital manipulation. And a product built on the backs of engineers who’ve seen scale and complexity most of us only read about in postmortems.
So here we are, Doppel, standing at the intersection of paranoia and potential, armed with a platform built to fight fire with smarter fire. If your security stack still plays defense, you’re already a few moves behind. The threats are getting personal. Doppel just made the counterattack professional.
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