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.
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]
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]
Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It? | WIRED · Nov 2026[8]
Pangram Labs · Nov 2026[1]
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]
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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.
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