Deepfake-related fraud caused $1.56 billion in losses in 2025 alone, with generative AI predicted to enable up to $40 billion in US fraud losses by 2027. As AI agents increasingly interact with multimedia content across enterprise workflows, synthetic content detection has become a critical infrastructure bottleneck blocking secure autonomous deployment.

Resemble AI’s $13 million strategic funding round, backed by Google’s AI Futures Fund, Sony Innovation Fund, and Okta Ventures, signals enterprise recognition that real-time deepfake detection infrastructure is no longer optional—it’s foundational for production AI agent security.

Portkey raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Elevation Capital, with participation from Lightspeed, to scale its unified control plane for production AI. The company now processes 500 billion tokens daily across 24,000+ organizations, managing $180 million in annualized AI spend—highlighting the infrastructure chasm that has emerged as AI transitions from experimental tool to business-critical system.

The timing reflects an industry inflection point where AI adoption has outpaced operational maturity. Companies are running mission-critical functions like customer support, underwriting, and coding on infrastructure originally designed for prototypes, creating reliability and governance gaps that traditional cloud platforms weren’t built to address.

Temporal Technologies raised $300 million in Series D funding at a $5 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz, as enterprises grapple with the fundamental reliability crisis holding back AI agent deployments in production environments.

The round—which included Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures and existing investors like Sequoia—validates the market’s urgent need for infrastructure that ensures AI agents can execute complex, long-running workflows without failing midstream. While AI models become increasingly capable, the systems around them struggle with real-world execution challenges.