Revelum Selected for the Google for Startups Cybersecurity Forum

Google for Startups has selected Revelum for the Gemini Startup Forum: Cybersecurity: 33 startups chosen worldwide, and only one dedicated to fighting deepfake fraud. This September, we join AI and security specialists from Google DeepMind, Google Cloud, Mandiant, and Wiz in London to work on the next generation of our detection and takedown technology.

What is the Gemini Startup Forum: Cybersecurity?

The Gemini Startup Forum: Cybersecurity is a Google for Startups program announced on the Google Cloud blog on July 8, 2026. It selected 33 cybersecurity startups across six focus areas, from AI agent security to SOC automation, for a two-day, in-person event in London in September. Founders work on their AI roadmaps directly with specialists from Google DeepMind, Google Cloud, Mandiant, and Wiz, and get access to the Google for Startups Gemini Kit: APIs, tools, training, and technical resources for building with Google’s AI stack.

How Google describes Revelum

From the official announcement:

“Detects and dismantles deepfake-driven fraud and impersonation campaigns at scale, using vision models and classification engines to analyze social media advertisements, verify biometric identities, and automate domain takedowns.”

That one sentence is our whole pipeline. Vision models scan social media advertising, the channel where deepfake fraud actually reaches victims. Biometric verification confirms a flagged video really is impersonating the person it appears to show, the core of how our detection works. Automated takedowns then dismantle the campaign and its infrastructure, because detection without removal doesn’t protect anyone.

One seat for deepfakes

The composition of the cohort is itself a threat assessment. Eight of the 33 companies secure autonomous AI agents. Others cover cloud posture, post-quantum cryptography, data loss prevention. Exactly one seat went to AI-generated impersonation, and Google gave it to us.

We think that seat exists because the threat has industrialized. In the past 12 months alone, our system documented more than 10,000 deepfake scam ads impersonating football players and mapped the production-line scam machine built around Nubank founder David Vélez, work that Forbes and Teleamazonas have drawn on in their own investigations. That body of evidence, not a pitch, is what Google evaluated.

What’s next

London, in September. We’ll bring back a sharper roadmap, built with the people developing the world’s most capable AI models, and we’ll keep publishing what we learn, the same way we publish our threat research today.

We’re not pretending to be neutral about this one. As I wrote in my announcement on LinkedIn: deepfakes have crossed the line from novelty to weapon, and getting to sharpen our response alongside the teams at Google DeepMind and Google Cloud is the kind of opportunity we started this company for. This is just the beginning.

If deepfakes of your executives, your brand, or your likeness are circulating right now, that is exactly what we hunt.

Contact Revelum

We’ll assess your exposure and tell you what we’re seeing, typically within 24 hours.

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Revelum is a deepfake detection and removal service operating globally, with a focus on the Americas and Europe. We protect executives, public figures, political leaders, and organizations from AI-generated disinformation and fraud. In July 2026, Google for Startups selected Revelum for the Gemini Startup Forum: Cybersecurity, a global cohort of 33 cybersecurity startups.