Investment will support Doppel’s continued product innovation, team growth, and global expansion
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24, 2026 — Doppel, the Frontier AI Social Engineering Defense (SED) platform, today announced that MUFG Innovation Partners (MUIP), the corporate venture capital arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), has become a strategic investor in the company. MUIP’s support will accelerate Doppel’s platform evolution and help the company continue growing, investing in talent, and strengthening its go-to-market capabilities.
“Social engineering attacks are scaling, so we have to scale faster to help protect our customers,” said Kevin Tian, CEO and Co-founder of Doppel. “We’re grateful to have MUIP backing us alongside our other world-class investors. Their support will help us accelerate our mission to protect the world from social engineering attacks every day. MUIP’s deep roots in Japan and experience supporting high-growth companies make them an ideal partner.”
MUIP’s investment comes during a period of significant growth for Doppel. The company recently surpassed 300 customers globally and brought on a record number of new enterprise organizations in the second quarter of 2026.
Doppel has also continued to advance its unified Social Engineering Defense platform. In July, the company launched Doppel Email Security and introduced AI Managed Service for Human Risk Management, expanding its ability to detect, investigate, and disrupt social engineering attacks while helping organizations build more tailored training and simulation programs.
Additionally, Doppel has continued to grow its global workforce, opening new hubs in Toronto and Austin, while expanding its office in New York City. Doppel also strengthened its presence in Japan and appointed new Country Manager Hideki Ushigome.
“When Kevin and I founded Doppel, we believed social engineering would become one of the defining security challenges of the AI era, and we wanted to build the company that could solve it,” said Rahul Madduluri, Co-founder and CTO of Doppel. “Seeing that vision translate into the scale we’ve reached today has been incredibly rewarding. Support from investors like MUIP gives us even more capacity to push our technology forward and keep raising the bar for what Frontier AI Social Engineering Defense can be.”
“Social engineering is no longer confined to a single email, channel, or moment in time,” said Yumi Goda, Strategic Investment Division for MUIP. “Attackers are operating across a much broader surface, and we believe Doppel is building the kind of unified defense organizations will increasingly need to keep pace. We see growing demand for solutions like Doppel, not only globally but also in Japan, where these threats are becoming increasingly relevant. We’re excited to support Kevin, Rahul, and the team as they continue to scale.”
Doppel is the Frontier AI platform for Social Engineering Defense (SED), protecting people and brands from AI-powered impersonation, phishing, fraud, and deception through three solutions running on the Doppel Superintelligence Layer. Digital Risk Protection (DRP) sees attacks forming, mapping attacker infrastructure across channels and dismantling it before launch. Email Security defends the inbox, judging every message by the infrastructure behind it and taking that infrastructure down so the campaign can't retarget. Human Risk Management (HRM) hardens the people attackers target, turning live threats into simulations and training and measuring risk by user and team. Every signal flows through a shared Threat Graph, so a threat seen anywhere strengthens defenses everywhere, and self-healing agents patch every missed detection. Together, they break the social engineering attack chain, advancing Doppel's mission to protect the world from social engineering attacks every day.
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