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Cinder raises $41M to help platforms fight AI-powered abuse using the team's ex-Meta threat intelligence expertise
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Cinder raises $41M to help platforms fight AI-powered abuse using the team's ex-Meta threat intelligence expertise

Cinder raises $41 million led by Radical Ventures to scale its AI-powered abuse detection platform, which helps internet platforms like OpenAI and Spotify identify deepfakes, CSAM, and state-sponsored threats at scale.

May 12, 2026

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Cinder

41M

AI-powered trust and safety platform that helps internet companies detect and mitigate abuse including AI-generated CSAM, deepfake pornography, hate speech, and state-sponsored threats; founded by former Meta threat intelligence team members

12 MayRadical Ventures

Forus

160M

AI-powered platform that helps patients with high-cost and complex conditions access medications faster and more affordably, while enabling life science companies to bring drugs to market more efficiently through a two-sided network of doctors, patients, and clinical data

12 May

Monaco

Series B

AI-native sales platform for early-stage startups that replaces CRM, prospecting, outreach, call recording, and pipeline management with integrated AI agents; launched from stealth in February 2026

12 MayBenchmark

Judgment Labs

Series A

Platform that helps agent-native companies improve long-horizon AI agents by processing and operationalizing production data to identify failure modes, usage patterns, and improvement opportunities

12 MayGreen Oaks · Lightspeed Venture Partners

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30MSeries B

AI-powered search engine for academic and scientific research, enabling evidence-based answers from peer-reviewed journals using large language models.

11 MayGreat Point Ventures

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15M

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Deepseek

7B

Chinese AI research lab that developed the DeepSeek family of large language models, including the open-weight V3 and R1 reasoning models, achieving frontier-level performance at significantly reduced training cost.

8 May

Astranis

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Blitzy

200M

Autonomous software development platform designed for enterprise legacy codebases, running multi-model AI agents continuously for days to weeks to refactor and improve large-scale code

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Casa

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