Tamperproof Media Startup Announces Seed Round and Company Launch

Combats digital fraud and deepfakes with data validation platform

Boston, MA /PRNewswire/ – Attestiv, Inc., a digital data validation platform has officially announced its launch today. The company has closed a Series Seed offering led by Castle Island Ventures, with Plug and Play Ventures and Mentors Fund capping off a total raise over $2M. In a world rampant with digital fraud and rapidly emerging deepfake technology, the company’s platform uses AI and blockchain technology to validate and secure the authenticity of digital media.

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Attestiv provides authenticity and validation for digital photos, videos and documents using patented tamper-proofing blockchain technology and AI analysis. 

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Nicos Vekiarides

Nicos Vekiarides is the Chief Executive Officer & co-founder of Attestiv. He has spent the past 20+ years in enterprise IT and cloud, as a CEO & entrepreneur, bringing innovative new technologies to market. His previous startup, TwinStrata, an innovative cloud storage company where he pioneered cloud-integrated storage for the enterprise, was acquired by EMC in 2014. Before that, he brought to market the industry’s first storage virtualization appliance for StorageApps, a company later acquired by HP.

Nicos holds 6 technology patents in storage, networking and cloud technology and has published numerous articles on new technologies. Nicos is a partner at Mentors Fund, an early-stage venture fund, a mentor at Founder Institute Boston, where he coaches first-time entrepreneurs, and an advisor to several companies. Nicos holds degrees from MIT and Carnegie Mellon University.