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
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
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
New York City (HQ)
United States
United Kingdom
Sri Lanka
Spain
Business model
SaaS
enterprise software
managed services
professional services
Funding
People & investors
Work & culture
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
health insurance
vision insurance
dental insurance
401(k) with employer matching
paid family leave
flexible paid time off
fully paid commuter benefits
paid lunch
paid dinner
Product & market
Pricing
Custom enterprise pricing with demo-led sales; managed operations are advertised as fixed-cost, and the company also sells platform plus services.
Differentiators
- —AI agents trained on each customer’s policies and workflows
- —Unified system of record for policy, casework, audit, and analytics
- —Human-in-the-loop escalation for edge cases
- —Real-time learning from reviewer feedback
- —Combines software platform with expert services and managed operations
- —Strong auditability and compliance-oriented workflow logging
- —Integrates with existing tools and classifiers instead of replacing them
Technology
Python
Django
django-zeal
AI agents
LLMs
SCIM
SSO
role-based access control
encrypted data storage
single-tenancy architecture
NCMEC integration
Salesforce integration
StopNCII integration
IWF integration
xsdata
Customers
OpenAI
Spotify
depop
Black Forest Labs
Synthesia
Character.AI
Zello
Patreon
Wizz App
Competitors
ActiveFence
Checkstep
Moonbounce
Intrinsic
Lasso Moderation
Samurai Labs
Tisane Labs
VerifyMy
Scale & contact
Latest news
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.
Jobs and careers at Cinder
8 jobs at Cinder
AI/ML Engineer
Remote
Product & Engineering
New York; New York, New York, USA
3w ago
Remote
Full-time
Senior Product Designer
On-site
Product & Engineering
New York; New York, New York, USA
3w ago
On-site
Full-time
General Application
On-site
Talent Community
Remote: SF/NYC/London; United States
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Product Manager, Trust & Safety
On-site
Product & Engineering
New York
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Engineering Manager - Core Infra
Remote
Product & Engineering
New York
2mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Forward Deployed Engineer
Remote
Product & Engineering
New York
1y ago
Remote
Full-time
Enterprise Account Executive
On-site
Sales & Customer Success
New York
2y ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack
On-site
Product & Engineering
New York
3y ago
On-site
Full-time