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Pangram Labs

Pangram sells AI-authorship detection for text, images and video to publishers, educators and platforms that need to know whether content was machine-written.

pangram.com · Brooklyn

CALL NO.CS·PANGRAM·26
StageSeedJuly 2026 · led by Menlo Ventures[2][4][6]
Raised$13Mdisclosed rounds[1][8][9][6]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2023[1][6]
Money

Raised $13M across disclosed rounds.[1][8][9][6]

Seed closed July 2026, led by Menlo Ventures.[2][4][6]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Menlo Ventures, Haystack, ScOp Venture Capital, Script Capital, Cadenza.[2][4][11]

People

Max Spero, Co-founder and CEO[6][13][14][11][27]

Bradley Emi, Co-founder and CTO[6][13][14][11][27]

Max Spero, CEO[14][13][6][27]

Bradley Emi, CTO[14][13][6][27]

Headcount: sources disagree
24as of Sep 2026

Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It? | WIRED · Nov 2026[8]

Pangram Labs · Nov 2026[1]

Signals
Nov 4 2026fundingPangram’s new models spot AI fakes in images and video, it says[17]
Nov 4 2026launchPangram Launches Two Models for AI Image and Video Detection – Unite.AI[20]
Aug 20 2026fundingPangram Dreams of a Slop-Free Future - Columbia Journalism Review[19]
Jul 29 2026fundingPangram Launches New World's Best AI Detector, ... company claim, not independently confirmed[18]
Comps

Originality.ai · originality.ai · Same buyer job: a paid AI-content detector with API access and paraphrase detection, listed first in iTech Guides' head-to-head set against Pangram and scored 9.4 versus Pangram's 8.8.[23][24]

GPTZero · gptzero.me · Direct head-to-head competitor in iTech Guides' comparison set, with API access and paraphrase detection like Pangram, and the closest funding-stage analogue in the same detection category per Business Model Analyst.[23][24]

Copyleaks · copyleaks.com · Named in the same head-to-head comparison set against Pangram, with a 300,000-word limit matching Pangram's and 30 detection languages, and positioned by Business Model Analyst as a funded player in the same detection category.[23][24]

Winston AI · gowinston.ai · Same buyer and same job: a paid AI detector with paraphrase detection and API access, evaluated in the same comparison set as Pangram.[23]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[18]

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[21]minerva_enrich

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Pangram Labs

CALL NO.CS·PANGRAM·26

Pangram sells AI-authorship detection for text, images and video to publishers, educators and platforms that need to know whether content was machine-written.

pangram.com · Brooklyn

StageSeed
Raised$13M
Headcount24
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2023
CompsOriginality.ai +3

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