Overview
Cinder provides a SaaS platform for Trust and Safety teams to automate and scale content moderation and improve AI training. It generates real-time moderation decisions as accurately annotated data, simplifying model learning, and includes audit logs and usage analytics to track team activity and efficiency. The product is cloud-based, secure, and scalable, with case and investigation management to govern sensitive data. Its goal is to help online platforms counter harmful content around the clock by delivering governance-grade moderation and better AI training data.
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What believers are saying
- May 2026 Series B raised $41 million from Radical Ventures, Accel, Y Combinator.
- June through August 2026 brought Synthesia, StopNCII, Wizz App, and IWF partnerships.
- October 2026 product pages show five live agents and customer expansion across fraud and safety.
What critics are saying
- OpenAI, Synthesia, and Wizz can pressure pricing and demand bespoke custom work.
- Cinder’s privacy-heavy workflows face GDPR and data-residency scrutiny across Europe and enterprise procurement.
- If Meta, Google, or OpenAI bundle comparable safety tooling, Cinder becomes expendable.
What makes Cinder unique
- Cinder centralizes policies, cases, audits, and AI agents in one trust system.
- It sells agentic safety for fraud, moderation, IP, and open-weight model governance.
- Cinder targets regulated review workflows, not generic ticketing or point-solution moderation tools.
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Funding
Notable Investors:
Series B funding is typically for startups that have proven their business model and need more funding to expand rapidly—often by entering new markets or adding more products. Investors are usually venture capital firms that specialize in later-stage investments.
Series B Funding Comparison
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