Blackbird.AI Posts 118% ARR Growth, 3X Customer Wins, and $28M to Counter Narrative Attacks on Executives and Brands

Blackbird.AI Accelerates: 118% ARR Growth, 3X Customer Wins, and $28M New Funding to Counter Narrative Attacks

Executives are facing a new class of risk: narrative attacks that move markets, derail operations, and damage reputations within hours. Blackbird.AI announced a surge in momentum-118% year-over-year ARR growth, 3X new customer logo wins, and $28M in new strategic funding-bringing total funding to $58M.

The company's narrative intelligence platform is gaining adoption across the Global 2000 and national security organizations as AI-driven disinformation, misinformation, and deepfakes scale in frequency and impact.

Why this matters for executive teams

• Budget reality: Gartner projects enterprise spending to fight misinformation and disinformation will exceed $30B by 2028, pulling roughly 10% from marketing and cybersecurity budgets.
• Decision risk: False narratives distort signal, delay responses, and create board-level exposure.
• Market impact: Executive-focused campaigns can erase billions in value and trigger lasting trust issues.

The highlights

• 118% YoY ARR growth
• 3X growth in customer logo wins
• $28M in new strategic funding; $58M total to date
• Investors: Ten Eleven Ventures, Dorilton Ventures, Dave DeWalt, and Chris Young

What Blackbird.AI offers

Blackbird.AI's Constellation Narrative Intelligence Platform maps harmful narratives, the influence behind them, the networks that spread them, anomalous behavior that scales them, and the communities they touch. It helps teams move from noise to action: detect, triage, and respond before narratives drive financial, operational, reputational, or physical harm.

Two recent additions sharpen that response: Compass Context (to assess online claims, links, posts, or videos) and Compass Vision (to identify AI-generated images and videos).

Where narrative attacks hit hardest

• Corporate and executives: False claims about leadership conduct or financial health can spark sell-offs and spook investors.
• Consumer brands: Viral posts about products or initiatives can trigger boycotts, cancellations, and labor issues.
• Critical infrastructure: Rumors about grid failures, refinery disruptions, or water contamination can cascade into emergency responses.
• Geopolitics: AI-made images or videos tied to global leaders can inflame tensions and public unrest.

What leaders and investors are saying

Wasim Khaled, CEO and Co-founder, Blackbird.AI: "The cost of narrative attacks has collapsed, and the consequences have exploded… Enterprises are losing clarity in decision-making due to AI-driven disinformation campaigns."

Dave DeWalt: "Blackbird.AI stands at the forefront of narrative intelligence, offering a dominant approach to protecting organizations from this new threat of narrative-based disinformation attacks… their technology is more essential than ever."

Chris Young: "Blackbird.AI has uniquely innovated using AI to unlock new and differentiated insights for its customers. They have assembled the right team that's driving true market momentum."

Partnerships and recognition

• Named by Forrester as the only notable provider supporting protection against narrative attacks in its External Threat Intelligence Service Providers Landscape.
• Winner: Fast Company's Next Big Things in Tech 2024 (AI & Data) and SINET16 Innovation Award; included in Inc.'s 2025 Best in Business (Best in Innovation).
• Strategic partnerships: WWT, BlackCloak, and Security Risk Advisors.
• Featured keynote at Fortune Brainstorm Tech: "Perception, Lies and AI."

Action plan for executives

• Treat narrative attacks as an enterprise risk with clear ownership across security, comms, legal, and risk.
• Stand up a detection-to-response workflow: monitoring, validation, escalation paths, and rapid comms playbooks.
• Run tabletop exercises that include deepfake scenarios and cross-platform narrative spread.
• Define metrics that matter: time-to-detection, time-to-mitigation, investor/employee sentiment swings, and market impact.
• Integrate specialized narrative intelligence into existing SOC, brand, and crisis operations.

What's next

With backing from Ten Eleven Ventures, Dorilton Ventures, Dave DeWalt, and Chris Young, Blackbird.AI plans to scale go-to-market and expand its platform. The aim is straightforward: give leadership teams the visibility and response capability to neutralize disinformation before it hits the balance sheet.

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