Pindrop Crosses $100M ARR as Deepfake Voice Fraud Surges

Atlanta-based Pindrop has crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, driven by surging global demand for AI-powered deepfake voice detection as fraud tactics rapidly evolve. The company’s technology is now deployed by eight of the world’s top ten banks, securing call centers against increasingly sophisticated social engineering attacks.

The scale of the threat has exploded. Before the rise of generative AI, enterprises typically encountered one deepfake call per customer each month. By late 2024, that figure had jumped to nearly seven per day—representing a 111% increase since 2022. Pindrop gained national attention in January 2025 after helping counter AI-cloned robocalls impersonating U.S. President Joe Biden during the New Hampshire primaries, underscoring the real-world impact of its technology.

Pindrop has been profitable since 2020 and has raised $235 million in equity funding at a peak valuation of $925 million, alongside $100 million in debt financing—allowing it to scale without dilution. Its technical edge lies in a massive proprietary dataset of over five billion call recordings and 20 million deepfakes, enabling detection within four to five seconds by identifying spectral artifacts and timing anomalies in synthetic speech.

The company’s product suite spans core voice and device authentication, its Pulse deepfake detection platform launched in 2024, and expanding enterprise use cases across healthcare, retail, video verification, and hiring. CEO Vijay Balasubramaniyan emphasizes that detection remains cheaper than generation—creating a durable economic moat.

With the deepfake and identity verification markets projected to exceed $100 billion, Pindrop is positioning itself as a key defender in the AI-driven fraud landscape, including critical relevance for India’s BPO and compliance-heavy sectors.