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Mantis Analytics

Kyiv-born AI platform that monitors media, social networks, and messengers in real time to detect disinformation, hostile narratives, and information-space threats for governments and security agencies.

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Mantis Analytics
Defense Software/AIEUPrivate
Kyiv-born AI platform that monitors media, social networks, and messengers in real time to detect disinformation, hostile narratives, and information-space threats for governments and security agencies.
Founded
2022
HQ
Kyiv, Ukraine
Headcount
10+
Total raised
$75,000–$450,000conflicting reports
Valuation
Undisclosed
Stage
Pre-seed

Background

Mantis Analytics was founded in Kyiv in 2022 — by co-founders Maksym Tereshchenko (CEO), Anton Tarasyuk (Expertise Lead), and Ostap Vykhopen (STO) — in the immediate aftermath of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, explicitly to help Ukrainian institutions counter Russian propaganda operations.

The founding team oriented the company toward cognitive-security analytics from day one, with combat-relevant use cases driving early product decisions.

The core product is an AI-powered information-space monitoring platform that ingests feeds from media outlets, social networks, and messaging applications, then applies NLP, LLMs, and big-data pipelines to surface fakes, coordinated manipulation campaigns, and hostile narratives in near-real time.

No separate named product lines have been publicly disclosed beyond this unified platform.

Go-to-market targets government and national-security buyers directly. The company employs more than ten people, with approximately half reported as full-time.

It has participated in the Alchemist Accelerator and received support through Ukraine's Brave1 defense-tech program.

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