Funded, Now What?!

What happens when AI makes scams faster, cheaper, and almost impossible to recognize?Neo, Co-founder of Scam.ai, has raised $3.2 million to build technology designed to detect deepfakes and protect companies from the next generation of AI-powered fraud. As scammers use AI to create realistic faces, voices, emails, and video calls, Scam.ai is developing tools that can detect deepfakes directly on a user's device.In this episode, Andrew and Neo dive into:The AI Fraud Problem: How AI is allowing individual scammers to automate attacks that previously required entire call centres, making fraud more personalized and scalable.Deepfakes & Real-Time Protection: How Scam.ai's Halo product works on-device to detect potential deepfakes during video calls without sending sensitive video data to the cloud.The $25M Deepfake Scam: Why the famous case of an employee being tricked into transferring $25 million shows how serious AI-powered fraud has become for enterprises.Staying Ahead of Scammers: How Scam.ai uses an agentic system to monitor new deepfake and image-generation techniques, collect new data, and continuously retrain its detection technology.B2B Before B2C: Why Scam.ai is initially focused on businesses and how enterprise customers could eventually become a distribution channel for consumer protection products.Turning B2B Into B2C: Andrew explains how companies could offer Scam.ai as an employee benefit, allowing workers to protect their personal devices and families while creating a new B2C growth channel.Founder-Led Sales: How Scam.ai is currently using warm introductions, investors, Berkeley SkyDeck, and targeted outbound to generate early enterprise conversations.Scaling Marketing With AI: Andrew breaks down how early-stage founders can use AI to automate parts of marketing while still relying on senior marketing expertise for strategy.LinkedIn, Paid Ads & Retargeting: Why enterprise startups should use LinkedIn outreach, tightly targeted advertising, Google Search, and retargeting as ongoing "ground cover" for their sales pipeline.The GEO & AI Search Playbook: Andrew explains why startups need to start building visibility in ChatGPT and other AI search platforms now, before the market becomes more competitive.Building Authority Before the Market Explodes: Why Scam.ai should establish itself as a leading voice around scam protection, deepfakes, and AI fraud before consumer demand fully catches up.Featured GuestNeo Tiangratanakul Founder of Scam.aiNeo is the founder of Scam.ai, an AI security company focused on helping businesses and individuals detect deepfakes and protect against the next generation of AI-powered fraud. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/scamai/home/ X: https://x.com/ScamAI_Official About the ShowFunded, Now What?! is the world's leading podcast for startup founders and growth leaders.Hosted by Andrew Lee Miller (@AndrewStartups), the show analyzes how the world's fastest-growing startups raise millions and provides the tactical marketing playbook to help them spend it wisely.📅 Book a Growth Audit: https://www.growthexpertz.com▶️ Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@growthexpertzConnect With Andrew: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewstartups/Read The Startup Growth Book: https://cutt.ly/Ftb3156KWant to work with us? [email protected]  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.