Alethea
Washington, US · Founded 2019 · Delaware corporation · 78 employees on LinkedIn · 7 known investors
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Alethea provides Artemis, an AI-powered risk management platform that detects and contextualizes information manipulation, coordinated influence operations, and online disinformation threats. It serves organizations ranging from Fortune 50 companies to targeted individuals, combining AI models with analyst insight in the threat intelligence and cybersecurity space.
Also known as Alethea Group
Founders & leadership
Alethea was founded in 2019 by Lisa Kaplan.
Board
Investors · 7
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$34.2M disclosed across 2 of 5 rounds · 2022–2024
- Undisclosed amountSeries BOct 2024Source ↗
- $20MSeries BApr 2024 · 4 sources
Google Ventures (lead), Ballistic Ventures, Hakluyt Capital
Source ↗
▶$14.2MraisedOct 2022 · 49 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Ted SchleinDirector
- Lisa KaplanExecutive Officer, Director
- Carl Smith, Jr.Director
- Fiona TaylorExecutive Officer
- Offering amount
- $14.7M
- Amount sold
- $14.2M
- First sale
- Oct 2022
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2019
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Alethea is a risk intelligence company focused on narrative and information threats that affect organizations' people, brand, license to operate and business continuity. Its core offering is Artemis, an AI risk management platform that ingests a broad set of niche and mainstream data sources to identify emerging online narratives and provide early warnings, so that customers can act before an incident escalates into a public crisis.
The company positions its work across several risk categories, including physical security threats, coordinated narrative attacks, operational disruption and downstream financial impact. Alongside the platform, Alethea publishes research, case studies and analyses of influence activity — for example work on state-actor amplification of domestic disputes such as the U.S. data center debate, and on how fringe consumer narratives migrate into federal policy discussions. In June 2025 the company added Risk Radar, an AI-powered narrative risk management system designed to increase visibility into narrative threats.
Business model
Alethea sells access to its AI risk management platform and associated intelligence products, including Artemis and Risk Radar, to organizations seeking monitoring and early warning of narrative and information risks.
Latest developments
In June 2025 Alethea launched Risk Radar. Its research was cited by Politico in September 2025 on AI influence operations and by The New York Times in January 2026 regarding Russian influence campaigns after a U.S. raid in Venezuela, and in 2026 the company published research on Russian, Chinese and Iranian activity around the U.S. data center debate.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market
Market position
Alethea presents itself as a proactive narrative risk management provider, emphasizing early warning ahead of a crisis rather than after-the-fact reputation response; it cites an estimated $9.54 billion in annual reputation management costs stemming from social media manipulation and brand reputation crises as the scale of the problem it addresses.
Technology
The Artemis platform applies AI to a wide range of niche and mainstream online data sources to detect, contextualize and prioritize emerging narratives, generating early warnings and insights for customer security, communications and risk teams. Risk Radar, introduced in 2025, extends this into a dedicated narrative risk management system.
Go-to-market
Alethea markets a product suite directly to organizations and supports it with published research, case studies, a newsletter and media citations of its analyses in outlets such as The New York Times and Politico.
Organizations concerned with reputational, operational, physical-security and financial exposure arising from online narratives, including corporate brand, communications, security and risk functions.
Compiled by commissioned research from 9 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Alethea went on to found or lead other companies.
Competitors · 4
by search overlap
Companies competing with Alethea for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Non-dilutive funding · 2 SBIR/STTR awards
Federal grants — no equity taken| Agency | Phase | Year | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Air ForceAir Force | Phase I | 2023 | $72.3K |
| U.S. Air ForceAir Force | Phase I | 2022 | $49.3K |
Source: SBIR.gov award data (U.S. Small Business Administration). SBIR/STTR awards are competitive federal R&D grants and contracts — non-dilutive capital alongside any venture rounds above.
Timeline · 11
launches, deals, and filingsThe New York Times highlighted Alethea findings on Russian influence campaigns following a U.S. raid in Venezuela.
Alethea was cited by Politico in reporting on new AI-enabled influence operations.
Alethea announced Risk Radar, an AI-powered narrative risk management system intended to increase visibility into narrative threats.
Fast Company named Alethea to its 2025 Most Innovative Companies list for work on detecting and mitigating online risks.
Alethea Founder and CEO Lisa Kaplan was included in Inc.'s seventh annual Female Founders list of 250 women entrepreneurs.
Alethea announced a $20M Series B led by GV with participation from Ballistic Ventures and Hakluyt Capital, bringing total raised to $34M; WilmerHale advised Alethea on the transaction.
$20M source ↗
Karim Faris, general partner at Google Ventures, joined Alethea's board of directors as part of the Series B financing.
Alethea was named to Inc.'s 2024 Best in Business List in the AI and Data category.
Alethea published a report on a network of X accounts and websites it assessed operated on behalf of Russia's GRU, using an amplification tactic it dubbed 'Invisible Ink' to amplify counter-Ukraine messaging ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election; the report was covered exclusively by The New York Times.
Alethea formally launched its flagship machine learning platform, Artemis, in the 12 months preceding April 2024, after a closed beta with about eight customers.
Alethea Group raised $10 million in Series A funding from Ballistic Ventures.
$10M source ↗
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structureIn the news
▸Research sources · 9
primary sources listed
- Aletheaalethea.com · web
- Alethea Raises $20M in Series B Funding for Disinformation Mitigationalethea.com · web
9 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Alethea do?
- Alethea runs Artemis, an AI risk management platform giving organizations early warning of online narrative threats.
- Who founded Alethea?
- Alethea was founded by Lisa Kaplan in 2019.
- Who are Alethea's investors?
- Alethea's investors include Ballistic Ventures, Bitkraft Esports Ventures, GV (Google Ventures), Hakluyt Capital, Nascent, Owl Capital, Riverbend Capital.
- How much funding has Alethea raised?
- Alethea has disclosed $34.2M raised across 2 of its 5 known rounds.
- Where is Alethea headquartered?
- Alethea is headquartered in Washington, US.