person

Mike Pappas

Co-founder and chairman of Modulate and an MIT alumnus.

Current clusters

invest1 publisher

Modulate raises $25 million to sell voice-deepfake detection at 25 cents an hour

Modulate raised $25 million in a round led by Future Ventures, lifting its total to $60 million for an audio platform that flags synthetic voices. Its detection API costs about eight times its transcription rate, and the round is a bet that the premium survives in financial services and healthcare.

Publishers:cryptobriefing.com

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption35
Hype gap+35
Incentives60
Confidence35

product3 publishers

Modulate raises $25 million to sell voice-agent builders a separate audio-analysis layer

Modulate raised $25 million to put models that analyze raw call audio, not transcripts, in front of more developers. Its pitch to teams running voice agents is a separate layer that spots cloned voices and grades how agents handle callers.

Publishers:siliconangle.comtechcrunch.comthenextweb.com

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers

Builder: Builder 40%
Operator: Operator 33%
Investor: Investor 27%

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption45
Hype gap+20
Incentives65
Confidence60