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In its AI special, Hamburger Wirtschaft, the magazine of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, looks at how artificial intelligence is transforming the insurance industry. Co-founder Linus Kameni describes the cat-and-mouse game with fraudsters who submit AI-generated damage photos, and how VAARHAFT keeps insurers from falling for fake images: its detection already runs inside many automated claims processes.
On the founder podcast Marketing From Zero To One, Anne Patzer and Linus Kameni tell the story behind VAARHAFT: from the first idea for a secured camera app at Hurricane Festival to today's Fraud Scanner for insurers. They also cover customer interviews for validation, the EXIST grant, business angels, pilot projects, and building proprietary AI models.
A new portrait in Hamburger Abendblatt highlights how the Hamburg-based start-up VAARHAFT is helping insurers, authorities and platforms uncover deepfakes and image-based fraud across the web.
On the Kollegin KI podcast (Podstars by OMR), co-founder and CEO Linus Kameni talks about hunting AI fraudsters with pixel analysis, deep learning, and probabilities: how VAARHAFT detects deepfakes and stops insurance fraud before it causes damage.
We are honoured to have received the Northern German AI Future Prize 2026 awarded by the University of Lübeck's Centre for Artificial Intelligence (ZKIL). The prize recognises our work in AI-powered detection of deepfakes and image-based insurance fraud.
Germany's leading tech news platform Golem.de features VAARHAFT's AI technology for detecting manipulated and AI-generated damage photos and what this means for the insurance industry.
The Tagesspiegel, one of Germany's leading daily newspapers, covers VAARHAFT's AI technology for detecting manipulated and AI-generated damage photos and what it means for the fight against insurance fraud.
Co-founder and managing director Linus Kameni joins hosts Martin Morgenstern and Martin Thaler on procontra's insurance podcast Lachsblau. The conversation covers the arms race between fraudsters and insurers, AI-generated claims images, love scamming, and what it takes to build a start-up in Germany.
VAARHAFT is now part of the Insurtech Hub Munich and started the program with some exciting Onboarding Days in Munich. Watch the full video of the kickoff event, especially the pitch by our CEO Linus Kameni at 1:05:03.
VAARHAFT is going international. At the DIA in Amsterdam, we were awarded the Diamond Award for our Show & Tell. Read about our business model in a nutshell here.
We are working together with insurance companies to create value where it is needed. With our AI detection model we show insurance companies how they can use AI to detect image-based insurance fraud.
What kind of society we are heading towards if we can no longer believe digital images? Read VAARHAFT's answer to this.
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We won the Claims Rockstar Award at the "Claims Management & Assistance" trade fair congress in Leipzig.
In Jonas Piela's Digital Insurance Podcast, co-founder and CEO Linus Kameni explains how AI-generated images are changing insurance fraud and how insurers can verify submitted damage photos within seconds: with forensic image analysis via API, a web app, and a camera app that certifies authentic images at the moment of capture.
We are excited to have this strong support to advance our vision and further scale our innovations.
At the journalism congress "Besser Online" in Wuppertal we presented our solution and discussed possibilities for deepfake detection.
We are pleased to announce that after the mo.in program, we have now made it into the market.in batch of the Startup Academy W.IN.
We are really pleased that innovative solutions against fraud through deepfakes are receiving attention in the press in order to build strong media literacy in society.
The Hamburger Abendblatt's Pinneberg regional edition features VAARHAFT and how the Wedel-based startup is building AI to expose deepfakes and combat image-based fraud online.
State funding for VAARHAFT sets new standards.
VAARHAFT presented the business idea to interested citizens at the Digital Day in Braunschweig.
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Press contact
For media inquiries, interviews or further information, please contact:
Anne Patzer
COO & Co-Founder
press@vaarhaft.com