What Alethea does

Alethea Group, Inc. is a Washington, DC-based, privately-held AI risk management company founded in 2019 by Lisa Kaplan that helps Fortune 500, Fortune 200, and nonprofit organizations detect and mitigate disinformation, coordinated influence operations, narrative-driven attacks, and AI-generated digital deception. Its flagship product is Artemis, an AI-powered multi-channel threat intelligence and narrative risk mitigation SaaS platform that ingests billions of data points across mainstream and niche social platforms and applies proprietary narrative and coordination models trained on seven years of analyst-curated intelligence. The platform is sold as an integrated suite that includes Risk Radar (visibility dashboard, launched June 2025), Alethea Insights (analyst-curated intelligence), Agentic AI Takedown Agents (April 2026) and Communications Agents (Feb 2026) for mitigation workflows, and a deepfake detection module delivered via partnership with Reality Defender (March 2026).

Alethea monetizes the platform through annual, quote-based enterprise SaaS subscriptions bundled with direct expert analyst services (actor attribution, audience analysis, strategic communications counsel) and API integration licensing for embedding into customer communications, compliance, risk, and security workflows. Go-to-market is sales-led and demo-driven, targeting CCOs, CSOs, and CISOs across verticals including financial services, retail and CPG, pharmaceutical/biotech/healthcare, aerospace and defense, NGOs, transportation and logistics, and food and beverage. Distribution is reinforced by executive earned media (NYT, Bloomberg, Axios, NBC News, Reuters, Fortune, Politico) and major industry event presence (RSA Conference 2026, Cannes Lions 2026). The company is venture-backed with $34M total disclosed funding across a $10M Series A (Ballistic Ventures, Nov 2022) and a $20M Series B (GV-led, Apr 2024), and reports a 400%+ three-year ARR increase ending 2025, with four Fortune 200 customers added in 2024 and 30%+ staff growth in the prior twelve months.

Name

Alethea

Legal name

Alethea Group, Inc.

Website

https://alethea.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Alethea is a Washington, DC-based AI risk management company that helps Fortune 500, Fortune 200, and nonprofit organizations detect and mitigate disinformation, coordinated influence operations, and AI-generated digital deception through its Artemis SaaS platform and analyst services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Narrative Risk Intelligence

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Audit, Explainability & Accountability Tooling (traceability, reporting) (HDAAAKAL), AI Observability, Monitoring & Evaluation Platforms (Drift, Quality, Safety) (HDAEANAF), AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ)

Keywords

• Narrative risk intelligence
• Disinformation detection software
• Threat intelligence platform
• Social media monitoring
• Deepfake detection tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Artemis SaaS Subscription: Recurring SaaS subscription to the Artemis AI risk management platform (including Risk Radar and Alethea Insights modules), billed to enterprise customers. Demonstrated sustained 400%+ increase in annual recurring revenue over three years ending 2025.
2. Analyst & Expert Services: Direct expert support team that works with clients to deliver contextualized intelligence, actor attribution, audience analysis, and strategic communications counsel — provided alongside the Artemis platform subscription.
3. API Integration Licensing: API access to Artemis intelligence for integration into customer workflows (e.g., communications, compliance, risk, security teams at financial institutions), offered as part of the platform offering.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Alethea provides AI-powered narrative risk intelligence and mitigation through its Artemis platform, which scans mainstream and niche data sources to detect early warnings of disinformation, coordinated inauthentic behavior, influence operations, threats of violence, and AI-generated media manipulation. The platform combines machine learning models trained on seven years of proprietary analyst intelligence with human subject matter experts, and now includes agentic AI agents that automate platform-specific takedown requests and communications response. The offering is delivered as enterprise SaaS subscriptions, augmented by expert analyst services and API integrations.

Product overview

Alethea offers a platform-plus-modules architecture centered on its flagship AI risk intelligence platform Artemis, complemented by the Risk Radar dashboard, the Alethea Insights analyst-curated intelligence service, and an Agentic AI Takedown Agent (part of a broader agentic AI mitigation suite including communications agents). Artemis serves as the core engine that scans billions of data points across mainstream and niche data sources to detect emerging narrative threats across disinformation, social media manipulation, influence operations, and coordinated inauthentic behavior. Risk Radar sits atop Artemis as the visibility layer, Alethea Insights layers expert analyst context on top of the detection output, and the Agentic AI Takedown Agent (alongside communications agents) extends the platform into automated mitigation workflows. Together these offerings are deployed for strategic communications, cybersecurity, and physical security & executive protection teams across industries including financial services, retail & CPG, healthcare/pharma/biotech, aerospace & defense, NGOs, transportation & logistics, and food & beverage.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Artemis: Flagship AI risk management platform described as the first-of-its-kind threat intelligence and narrative risk mitigation platform used to detect early signs of cyber threats, disinformation, and influence campaigns.
• Risk Radar
• Alethea Insights

Products and services

• Artemis First-of-its-kind threat intelligence and narrative risk mitigation platform that pulls in a broad set of niche and mainstream data sources to deliver early warnings of narrative threats and enable mitigation. Scans the open web, analyzing billions of data points across multiple languages to detect early signs of cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, and influence operations. Serves as the foundation for Risk Radar, the agentic AI mitigation suite, and Takedown Agents.
• Risk Radar AI-powered narrative risk management dashboard that provides visibility, clarity, and insight into narrative threats in one easy-to-use view, giving organizations increased visibility into emerging narrative risks surfaced by Artemis.
• Alethea Insights Curated, macro-level view of the signals that matter most, delivered by Alethea's expert analysts to bring context to detection, explain why a risk matters, and advise on whether and how to respond. Adds expert context beyond automated detection to support strategic risk management decisions.
• Agentic AI Takedown Agent Agentic AI capability within Artemis that drafts platform-specific, policy-anchored takedown requests pre-loaded with evidence (context, coordination evidence, and risk assessment), enabling organizations to remove deepfakes, threats of violence, coordinated influence campaigns, and impersonation content from social platforms. Works in tandem with communications agents to coordinate removal and reputation response.

Quantifiable outcome

• Better than 400% increase in annual recurring revenue over 3 years
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability14 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered strategic flagship, advisory and operational vendor.

• Reality Defenderstrategic flagshipTechnology or Integration · 19 March 2026Strategic partnership to integrate Reality Defender's real-time deepfake and AI-generated media detection with Alethea's Artemis narrative risk platform. The joint service is available now and helps organizations verify suspicious media and respond to digital deception, AI-generated disinformation, and impersonation.
• Edgard Capdevielle (Nozomi Networks CEO)advisoryOthers · 10 December 2025Joined Alethea's Board of Directors in December 2025; as CEO of Nozomi Networks he brings experience scaling technology companies and leading global expansion to guide Alethea's international footprint and product development.
• HubSpotoperational vendorTechnology or IntegrationSubprocessor used by Alethea to service customer and subscriber accounts and deliver informational content and messages pursuant to opt-in preferences; also serves as marketing automation and CRM-adjacent system for the website.
• Salesforceoperational vendorTechnology or IntegrationSubprocessor used by Alethea to administer and manage customer and partner accounts, including related contact and account information.
• Duo (Cisco Duo)operational vendorTechnology or IntegrationSubprocessor used to facilitate multi-factor authentication for Alethea customers using Artemis.
• Google Analyticsoperational vendorTechnology or IntegrationThird-party analytics provider used to collect and analyze aggregated, pseudonymous data usage on the Site to inform product and marketing decisions.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Babel Street: Babel Street's open-source intelligence platform (Rosette) is used by enterprises and government agencies to monitor public data streams for identity, risk, and threat signals — a broader incumbent that overlaps with Alethea's enterprise narrative and influence-operation intelligence use cases.
• Flashpoint: Flashpoint provides threat intelligence and risk management across illicit communities, fraud, and corporate security — a broader incumbent in the same enterprise intelligence category Alethea targets with Artemis.
• ZeroFox: ZeroFox is an established external digital risk protection platform that monitors social media, the surface web, and dark web for brand, executive, and fraud threats — a broader incumbent in the same enterprise digital-risk category Alethea occupies with Artemis.
• Recorded Future: Recorded Future is a large threat intelligence platform that covers cyber, fraud, and influence operations across the open and dark web, with a strong enterprise and public-sector footprint — a broader incumbent that competes for the same CISO/CSO narrative-threat and disinformation budget.
• Dataminr: Dataminr is a real-time event and risk detection platform that ingests public data streams (including social) to alert enterprises, governments, and news desks to emerging threats — overlapping with Alethea's real-time narrative risk monitoring but at a much larger scale and broader event scope.

Direct peers

• Logically: Logically offers a disinformation and narrative-threat intelligence platform that combines AI detection with analyst expertise to protect brands, governments, and platforms from coordinated influence operations — a near-direct functional match to Alethea's Artemis + Alethea Insights offering.
• Cyabra: Cyabra focuses on detecting inauthentic accounts, bot networks, and coordinated campaigns on social media, selling to enterprise and government customers for brand protection and election integrity — overlapping with Alethea's coordination/PromptPasta detection and Fortune 500/NGO use cases.
• Blackbird.AI: Blackbird.AI's Narrative Intelligence Platform (Constellation) is the closest direct competitor to Alethea's Artemis — it ingests signals across the open web, detects coordinated inauthentic behavior and harmful narratives for enterprise customers, and markets heavily to CISOs, CSOs, and CCOs in financial services, consumer brands, and other verticals.

Emerging players

• GroupSense: GroupSense delivers digital risk protection and threat intelligence focused on external attack surface, brand, and executive threats — an emerging player with overlapping narrative-risk and social media manipulation use cases for mid-market and enterprise customers.
• Nisos: Nisos is a managed intelligence provider that combines analyst expertise with OSINT collection to investigate threat actors, insider risk, and disinformation for enterprise clients — directly comparable to Alethea's analyst-augmented service layer around Artemis.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/thealetheagroup
• Xx.com/AletheaInsights

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors3 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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