TrustNXT Raises €1.6M Funding In Pre-seed Round

The company is expanding its platform, which protects images and videos in critical B2B applications from AI-driven tampering and cyberattacks, ensuring reliable visual data for industries, insurers and public safety.

TrustNXT’s platform combines cryptography, computer vision, and patented trust technology to ensure the authenticity and integrity of image and video data, preventing manipulation and guaranteeing reliability throughout critical business processes.

Ariane Scheer-Danielsson, Co-founder and managing director at TrustNXT: In a world where AI can generate deceptively real images in seconds, trust and data integrity are crucial. Without them, digital business models are threatened. Our mission is to secure this integrity for companies.

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TrustNXT’s solution helps insurers detect manipulated damage photos and fully automate claims and underwriting processes without human intervention. This allows companies to prevent image fraud, accelerate processing, and scale operations efficiently. The pre-seed round included leading early-stage investors D11Z.Ventures and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF).

Patrick Schmitt, Principal at D11Z.Ventures, commented: We are excited about the cryptography technology used by TrustNXT. It generates a technically unique fingerprint of the sensor data at the point of origin of a medium. It is irrevocably linked to the medium – a physical, tamper-proof evidence.

This prevents manipulation and proves the origin of digital content beyond doubt. In the current race between AI-manipulated media and AI that recognises such manipulation, TrustNXT renders this duel obsolete. TrustNXT's technology will restore trust in digital media for the long term.

Tizian Hoppen, Senior Investment Manager at HTGF, emphasized that a functioning economy fundamentally relies on trust:

Today, important decisions are based on digital media such as photos and videos. TrustNXT has impressed us with its digital trust technology, which is based on years of deep tech research.

TrustNXT will use the funding to enhance its technology, focusing on tamper-proof, real-time protection of video data for industrial applications. The company aims to launch its first pilot projects in the industrial sector in 2026.

About TrustNXT

TrustNXT creates advanced software that safeguards photos and videos from tampering. By verifying their origin, content and metadata, and providing powerful forensic tools it helps users trust their visual data. Focused on preventing fraud, TrustNXT ensures integrity and builds safer, more reliable digital environments.