Menlo Ventures Leads Pangram’s $9 Million Seed Round as AI Content Hits 35% of New Websites
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Updated · menlovc.com · Jul 29
Menlo Ventures Leads Pangram’s $9 Million Seed Round as AI Content Hits 35% of New Websites
3 articles · Updated · menlovc.com · Jul 29
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$9 million in seed funding will back Pangram’s push to detect AI-generated text and images, with Menlo Ventures framing the startup as a tool to restore trust online.
35% of new websites and 33% of top Substack articles are already AI-written, Menlo said, arguing that cheap synthetic content is flooding the internet and eroding confidence in language itself.
Pangram says its detector posts a 1-in-10,000 false-positive rate and under 0.5% false negatives on passages over 50 words, citing an audit by the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute.
Quora, Google Classroom and the Internet Archive are among users or evaluators cited by Menlo, while Pangram plans to expand beyond text into image and video detection as fake-media concerns spread.