Cinder · Jun 2026
CEO interview discussing the Series B, trust and safety at scale, and how Cinder handles AI-powered abuse.
Cinder | Responsible AI, Trust & Safety, and Data Labeling At Scale
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Cinder is a New York-based trust and safety operations platform that helps companies protect against AI-powered abuse, fraud, manipulation, and other online harms by combining policy workflows, AI agents, human review, and services.
Primary product
Cinder platform for trust and safety operations (AI-assisted content moderation, case investigation, and policy enforcement)
Founded
2022
Headquarters
New York City, New York, United States
Team size
30-40
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Trust and safety operations / AI safety / content moderation
Offices
6 jobs at Cinder
Business model
Mission-driven and high-urgency: the company emphasizes shipping in days rather than quarters, making decisions with incomplete information, owning outcomes, and hiring people who are comfortable operating on urgent, high-stakes abuse problems.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public job snippets show Senior Software Engineer at about $190K-$250K and Enterprise Account Executive at about $150K-$175K; roles are concentrated in New York and some roles are open to San Francisco.
Benefits
Pricing
Custom enterprise pricing with demo-led sales; managed operations are advertised as fixed-cost, and the company also sells platform plus services.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Cinder · Jun 2026
CEO interview discussing the Series B, trust and safety at scale, and how Cinder handles AI-powered abuse.
Cinder · Jun 2026
Recruiting/culture piece describing the company’s mission, rapid hiring, and Glen Wise as co-founder and CEO.
Cinder · May 2026
Event recap from the company’s New York HQ on synthetic NCII, featuring policy and engineering discussion and Cinder’s ongoing work on detection and response.
Cinder · May 2026
Official Series B announcement: $41M led by Radical Ventures, with participation from Accel, Y Combinator, M12, PSP Growth, Neuberger’s Outpost Ventures, and Mozilla Ventures; says Cinder is used by OpenAI, Spotify, depop, and Black Forest Labs.
Cinder · Apr 2026
Cinder publicly released django-zeal, a Python package used in its codebase to catch N+1 queries and speed up large contextual moderation workloads.