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Loti AI

lotiai.com

AI platform protecting digital likenesses from deepfakes, impersonation, and unauthorized online use.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees11-50
Funding$23.8M
9 active roles
Profile 6mo agoJobs checked 10h ago
AI / MLAI ApplicationB2B SaaSSeries A$10M-$50M

About

Loti AI builds an AI-powered platform for managing and protecting digital likenesses, with deepfake and impersonation detection and automated takedowns. It serves individuals, public figures, and corporate IP owners; its differentiation is centralized likeness and brand-rights management through a developer-ready API for enforcing usage rules and compliance.

Market

Loti AI competes in the AI-powered digital likeness, synthetic-media detection, online reputation, and IP or brand-protection markets. It positions itself as an end-to-end service that combines face and voice recognition, real-time monitoring, detection, and takedowns, while extending into consented and compensated generative-AI licensing through Interchange. Its broadening from celebrity and enterprise protection to free consumer monitoring is another differentiator.

Target Customers

Loti AI primarily targets talent agencies and representatives, celebrity and influencer managers, public figures, brands, and corporate IP or privacy teams. It also serves creators and influencers—particularly those with more than 500,000 followers—and has expanded into consumer likeness protection for everyday individuals.

At a Glance

Problem

Loti AI addresses the growing problem of unauthorized use of people’s faces, voices, names, brands, and intellectual property online. Generative AI has made deepfakes, voice simulations, fake endorsements, impersonator accounts, leaks, and other misleading or harmful content easier to produce and distribute, creating risks around fraud, trust, reputation, privacy, contracts, and monetizable likeness rights. The economic pain is not limited to one bad post: it is the continuing cost of discovering violations, protecting brand value, responding to reputational damage, and coordinating legal or platform-enforcement work at internet scale.

The clearest killer use case is protecting celebrities, athletes, musicians, influencers, executives, and other public figures whose likenesses are repeatedly reused without authorization. Talent agencies and representatives need to know where a client appears online and rapidly remove deepfakes, non-consensual media, fake endorsements, impersonator accounts, unauthorized merchandise, and other content before it gains reach or causes business damage. Loti has expanded this protection to ordinary users as well, reflecting that the threat is no longer limited to celebrities.

Product / Service

Loti is an AI-powered likeness and IP-protection platform combining continuous internet monitoring, detection, and automated enforcement. Its Watchtower product uses multimodal AI and more than 40 proprietary models to identify faces, text, logos, deepfakes, impersonators, and unauthorized or non-consensual uses across the open web. A centralized dashboard tracks detections and risks, while platform-specific workflows generate evidence packages, submit takedown requests, and track them through resolution. Loti says it has removed 95% of unauthorized content within 17 hours.

The company serves multiple segments through a free and premium consumer offering, paid plans for public figures and influencers, and developer infrastructure for generative-AI platforms and brands. Its developer API lets rights holders define permitted and prohibited uses, returns clearance status and licensing terms, and triggers automatic takedowns for unlicensed use. The benefit is to turn a labor-intensive monitoring and rights-enforcement problem into an always-on service, while also creating infrastructure for licensing real-world identities safely in AI-generated media.

Market

Loti competes in the emerging market for digital likeness protection, deepfake detection, online impersonation monitoring, IP enforcement, and generative-AI rights infrastructure. The closest named alternatives in the available market research are Ceartas, MarqVision, and Official AI, which CB Insights lists as Loti alternatives. Adjacent competitors include Reality Defender, focused on enterprise deepfake detection, and BrandShield, focused on monitoring fake accounts, spoofed domains, and impersonation campaigns; these overlap with Loti but do not necessarily offer the same combination of likeness recognition, rights management, and takedown execution.

Loti has substantial evidence of commercial and technical traction rather than looking like a pre-product company. It announced a $16.2 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures in April 2025, manages 9 billion facial vectors, and scans approximately 120–140 million images and videos daily. It has reported or documented relationships involving TikTok, Meta, Pinterest, Underscore Talent, and high-profile talent, with the Underscore partnership covering a creator roster reaching more than three billion fans. Loti also launched public access to its protection service in 2025, with free and paid plans. A third-party source estimates $5.1 million of 2025 revenue, but that figure is not company-reported or audited in the available evidence, so the strongest defensible conclusion is that Loti has funded, deployed, paid offerings and notable partnerships, while its precise revenue remains uncertain.

Founders & Leadership

Luke ArrigoniFounder
Co-Founder & CEO
Hirak ChhatbarFounder
Co-Founder & CTO
Jae KimChief Legal Officer
Brandon BaumanChief Strategy Officer

Funding History

2024-09
Seed$6.65M

FUSE, Bling Capital

2025-04
Series A$16.2M

Khosla Ventures

Recent News

2026-06-04
I Spoke With an AI Deepfake Hunter, and Here's What You Should Know

CNET interviewed Loti AI CEO Luke Arrigoni about the company’s work scanning the internet for deepfakes, impersonation, scams, and other unauthorized uses of people’s likenesses, then pursuing removals.

2026-04-30product
Loti AI Launches Interchange: An Industry-First Platform for Generative AI Consent, Control, and Compensation

Loti AI launched Interchange, a platform-integration intended to bring consent, control, licensing, and compensation infrastructure directly into AI ecosystems. The company said the platform is designed to protect and reward creators, brands, developers, and other participants in synthetic-media markets.

2026-04-30
Celebrity Deepfakes Become Big Business After Sora Shutdown

Puck covered Loti’s role as a digital-likeness-protection company operating amid Hollywood’s growing concerns about AI infringement and celebrity deepfakes, including its work with major talent agencies.

2026-04-01
The Creator Economy at Risk: Ownership, Identity and AI | Episode 4

NAB Show’s Changing Frequencies podcast featured Loti founder and CEO Luke Arrigoni discussing how generative AI is replicating identity at scale and why consent, compensation, and control are becoming central creator-economy issues.

2026-01-29partnership
Shortform Creators Aren’t Making As Much As You Think

TheWrap’s Creatorverse coverage reported that creator-management company Underscore Talent partnered with Loti AI to protect its clients’ digital likenesses, highlighting the growing importance of likeness-protection collaborations.

2026-01-26partnership
Loti Partners with Underscore Talent to Protect Likeness Rights for Its Roster of Global Creators Amid Growing Deepfake Threats

Loti AI announced a partnership with Underscore Talent to protect the agency’s digital-talent roster against deepfakes, impersonation, and unauthorized likeness uses. Coverage described access to Loti’s Watchtower platform for detecting and removing impersonator accounts and other unauthorized content.

2025-11-18
Inside Loti’s A.I. Deepfake Crusade

Puck profiled Loti’s deepfake-removal business, including its work helping customers such as Keanu Reeves identify and scrub digital imitators from the internet using facial-recognition technology.

2025-10-14partnership
Loti Selected by CMG Worldwide to Protect Digital Likeness of Legendary Talent and Estates

Loti AI announced a partnership with CMG Worldwide to protect the digital likenesses and estates represented by CMG, including legendary talent such as Randy Savage, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, and David Ruffin.

2025-10-14partnership
AI Protection for Jimmy Stewart, Judy Garland and More: CMG Worldwide Partners With Loti AI

Variety covered CMG Worldwide’s use of Loti AI’s technology and services to protect the digital likenesses of legendary performers, athletes, and other represented estates from unauthorized AI use.

2025-08-07partnership
How Loti AI Fights Likeness Infringement and Digital Impersonation with Weaviate

Weaviate published a case study describing its partnership with Loti AI to power Loti’s digital-identity protection platform at multi-billion-vector scale. Loti said the integration supports planned growth in scanning capacity and complements takedown relationships involving TikTok, Meta, and Pinterest.

Active Roles

9
Remote (United States)/Engineering/35d ago
Remote (United States)/Engineering/35d ago
Remote (United States); Remote (India)/Engineering/35d ago
Remote (United States)/Engineering/35d ago
San Francisco, CA/Product/35d ago
San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles, CA/Marketing/35d ago
Vadodara, India; San Francisco, CA; Remote (United States)/Operations/35d ago
Vadodara, India/Operations/35d ago

Business Model

Loti uses a freemium subscription model: its free plan provides 24/7 monitoring, while Premium costs $25 per month or $200 annually and includes a stated monthly takedown allowance. The company also offers a developer-ready API for businesses managing likeness and brand rights, although separate API pricing was not disclosed.

Products

Digital likeness and IP protection platformReal-time face and voice monitoringDeepfake, impersonation, and unauthorized-content detectionAutomated content takedown and removal servicesConsumer likeness protection with free monitoringInterchange platform for consented and compensated use of digital likenesses and creative works

Customers

Underscore TalentWME (strategic partner)

Tech Stack

Advanced AIFacial recognitionVoice recognitionDeepfake and AI-impersonation detectionReal-time internet monitoringAutomated content-takedown workflows

Competitors

Ceartas
MarqVision
Official AI
Bytescare

Key Investors

Sequence Equity, Alpha Edison, Bling Capital, Ensemble VC, Fuse (Seattle)