Pangram Labs
Pangram Labs is an artificial intelligence research company [2][4] based in Brooklyn [5]. Founded in 2023 [7], the company develops detection systems for AI-generated content [2]. The company is at the venture stage of funding [3]. As of August 2026, Pangram Labs had eight open positions, including Account Executive roles for Education and Enterprise segments, as well as a Customer Success Manager position [1].
Funding
- Venture, $9MJul 29, 2026
with Menlo Ventures, Haystack, ScOp Venture Capital, Script Capital, Cadenza
Key people
Alumni
Recent developments
- 8 open roles, including Account Executive - Education, Account Executive - Enterprise, Customer Success Manager[1]Aug 6, 2026
Funding history
- Pangram Labs raised $9M in venture funding from Menlo Ventures, Haystack, ScOp Venture Capital, Script Capital and Cadenza, bringing total reported equity funding to $13M. Founded in 2023 by Max Spero and Bradley Emi.[3]Jul 29, 2026
Traction
- Pangram claims 99.98% accuracy with a false positive rate of about 1 in 10,000, and says research from the University of Chicago and the University of Maryland independently confirmed industry-leading performance against competitors including GPTZero and Originality.ai.[11]
Product
- Pangram's detector uses deep learning trained on roughly one million human and AI documents to analyze structural, stylistic and semantic patterns, rather than relying on perplexity metrics. It detects output from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Llama and DeepSeek among others.[10]
- Pangram Labs builds an AI content detection platform that identifies machine-generated text across more than 20 languages and many AI models, including detection of AI-assisted editing rather than only fully AI-written text, plus plagiarism checking and an image detection research preview.[13]
Customers
- Pangram's named users and partners include the University of Chicago, the University of Maryland, Stony Brook University, Substack, Quora, NewsGuard, WikiEducation, ChatPDF and Inspera, with integrations into Canvas, Google Classroom, Brightspace, Moodle, Google Docs and a Chrome extension.[12]
Backers
- FCadenza
- FHaystack
Haystack
The agent-native control layer for code changes
Menlo Ventures
Early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1976 investing in AI, healthcare, consumer, cybersecurity, fintech, infrastructure, robotics and SaaS, with $3 billion in new capital earmarked for AI startups.
- FScOp Venture Capital
- FScript Capital
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