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Infrastructure to protect companies from AI abuse
From content moderation to AI safety, Cinder empowers businesses to orchestrate and automate digital safety at scale. Cinder was founded to help organizations foster safe online spaces for everyone. Our platform empowers companies from start-ups to enterprises with end-to-end capabilities to mitigate harm, investigate abuse, and produce trustworthy and reliable AI outcomes. Building your world-class company means keeping your users and community safe—Cinder unlocks faster growth by making safety easy. We work with customers in every industry from frontier AI labs to e-commerce and social media. We're hiring across a variety of teams and looking for candidates based in NYC or open to relocating to NYC, and able to work in-person.
Cinder provides mission-critical infrastructure to design, automate, and scale trust and safety operations for platforms facing AI-powered abuse. It offers agent-based moderation workflows and real-time detection to protect brands, products, and users at scale.
Cinder transforms policies into agentic workflows that enforce standards across millions of decisions. It uses configurable AI agents, real-time detection, human-in-the-loop triage, and an auditable decision log. The platform centralizes policies, data, and automations, supports third-party integrations, and offers a UI-driven data model, workflow builders, and RBAC with SSO. It combines AI agents, explainability, and continuous learning from feedback to adapt to evolving abuse scenarios.
Who it’s for: high-growth platforms seeking to protect users and brands from abuse, fraud, and manipulation, with needs spanning content moderation, account safety, IP/copyright enforcement, and brand integrity.
Series B, raised $41M, references to case studies and enterprise deployments
ex-USG ex-Meta After graduating from Carnegie Mellon, Glen joined Facebook as a security engineer to lead the build out of their community threat intelligence platform, working directly with Phil Brennan for over 3 years. Glen started Cinder in 2021 to help other companies solve similar trust and safety problems.
Phil joined Facebook in 2017 to build out their community threat intelligence team, after running counterterrorism units for the US government. Phil worked with Glen Wise for several years at Facebook before joining him to co-found Cinder.
Agency replaces traditional security and compliance headcount with AI.
AI agents for risk, compliance, and safety
