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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Pindrop: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/pindrop/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/pindrop/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/pindrop.md",
  "title": "Pindrop: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Pindrop is on the AI hiring software map. We record 3 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Nov. 19, 2025.",
  "period": "June 18 to Nov. 19, 2025",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
  "company": {
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    "slug": "pindrop",
    "name": "Pindrop",
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    "site": "https://www.pindrop.com/",
    "summary": "Voice security and deepfake detection vendor, best known for contact centers; hiring is one use case. Its hiring page says \"Catch a fake job candidate before they're hired\" and uses Pindrop Pulse for Meetings inside Zoom, Webex and Microsoft Teams interviews to flag deepfake video, synthetic voice, VPN or odd location, and a different voice across interview rounds. Results write back to the candidate record in hiring platforms. It does not verify documents or replace background checks.",
    "founded": null,
    "categories": [
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    ],
    "status": "active",
    "price_note": null,
    "update_channels": [],
    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
    "off_map": null,
    "merged_into": null,
    "category_names": [
      "Background, identity and fraud checks"
    ]
  },
  "confirmed_product_launches": 0,
  "dated_product_launches": 0,
  "undated_launches": 0,
  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
  "count": 0,
  "launches": [],
  "launch_list": false,
  "indexed": true,
  "summary": {
    "text": "Voice security and deepfake detection vendor, best known for contact centers; hiring is one use case. Its hiring page says \"Catch a fake job candidate before they're hired\" and uses Pindrop Pulse for Meetings inside Zoom, Webex and Microsoft Teams interviews to flag deepfake video, synthetic voice, VPN or odd location, and a different voice across interview rounds. Results write back to the candidate record in hiring platforms. It does not verify documents or replace background checks.",
    "source": {
      "name": "pindrop.com",
      "url": "https://www.pindrop.com/use-cases/catch-fake-job-candidates"
    },
    "from": "record"
  },
  "maps": [
    {
      "map": "hiring-software",
      "title": "The AI hiring software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-pindrop",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "Pindrop",
      "site": "https://www.pindrop.com/",
      "category": "Background, identity and fraud checks",
      "what": "Voice security and deepfake detection vendor, best known for contact centers; hiring is one use case. Its hiring page says \"Catch a fake job candidate before they're hired\" and uses Pindrop Pulse for Meetings inside Zoom, Webex and Microsoft Teams interviews to flag deepfake video, synthetic voice, VPN or odd location, and a different voice across interview rounds. Results write back to the candidate record in hiring platforms. It does not verify documents or replace background checks.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "pindrop.com",
        "url": "https://www.pindrop.com/use-cases/catch-fake-job-candidates"
      },
      "price": "not published; sales-led",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Fraud and identity"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 2,
      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (Long-running voice security vendor; $100M debt financing from Hercules Capital in July 2024; Pulse listed in Zoom, Webex and Teams marketplaces)",
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      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "pindrop.com",
          "url": "https://www.pindrop.com/use-cases/catch-fake-job-candidates"
        },
        {
          "name": "pindrop.com",
          "url": "https://www.pindrop.com/solution/meeting-security/"
        },
        {
          "name": "pindrop.com",
          "url": "https://www.pindrop.com/pulse"
        },
        {
          "name": "pindrop.com",
          "url": "https://www.pindrop.com/product-updates"
        },
        {
          "name": "pindrop.com",
          "url": "https://www.pindrop.com/article/pindrop-pulse-available-across-conferencing-platforms/"
        },
        {
          "name": "pindrop.com",
          "url": "https://www.pindrop.com/article/pindrop-pulse-app-zoom-meetings-defend-ai-deepfakes/"
        }
      ],
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      "cross_listed": false
    }
  ],
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  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/pindrop/#event-1",
      "on": "2025-11-19",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Pindrop Pulse for Meetings available on Zoom, Webex and Teams",
      "summary": "Pindrop made Pulse for Meetings generally available across Zoom, Webex Meetings and Microsoft Teams, naming \"Deepfake candidates in virtual interviews\" as a core threat.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-pindrop"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor blog",
        "url": "https://www.pindrop.com/article/pindrop-pulse-available-across-conferencing-platforms/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/pindrop/#event-2",
      "on": "2025-09-18",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Pindrop Pulse app for Zoom Meetings goes live",
      "summary": "Pindrop Pulse for Meetings became generally available in Zoom's App Marketplace with deepfake detection, background voice authentication and country checks; Pindrop pitched it against interview fraud and to confirm the same candidate across rounds.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-pindrop"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor blog",
        "url": "https://www.pindrop.com/article/pindrop-pulse-app-zoom-meetings-defend-ai-deepfakes/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/pindrop/#event-3",
      "on": "2025-06-18",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Pindrop publishes data on fraud in its own remote hiring",
      "summary": "Pindrop said about 1 in 6 applicants to its fully remote roles showed signs of fraud, 1 in 343 were linked to North Korea, and about 1 in 4 of those used a deepfake in a live interview.",
      "kind": "Research",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-pindrop"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor blog",
        "url": "https://www.pindrop.com/article/why-your-hiring-process-now-cybersecurity-vulnerability/"
      }
    }
  ]
}