Cinder vs Middleware
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SF trust and safety platform for AI labs and social platforms with content moderation, AI safety, and data labeling; YC W22 $14M AWS GenAI Accelerator/Accel-backed by ex-Facebook security and counterterrorism founders.
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Cinder is a San Francisco-based trust and safety platform — backed by Y Combinator (W22) with $14 million raised from AWS Generative AI Accelerator, Accel, Pioneer Fund, Webb Investment Network, and YC — providing AI labs, e-commerce platforms, and social media companies with infrastructure to orchestrate and automate content moderation, AI safety red-teaming, policy enforcement, and data compliance workflows, while uniquely combining content moderation operations with AI training data labeling to create high-quality, policy-informed datasets. Founded in 2021 by Glen Wise (former Facebook security engineer) and Phil Brennan (former US government counterterrorism specialist), Cinder launched from stealth in December 2022 after two years of building with early enterprise customers.
Cloud-native observability platform with APM, traces, logs, and metrics; OpenTelemetry-native cost-effective Datadog alternative targeting DevOps teams at growing companies.
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Middleware is an observability and monitoring platform providing application performance monitoring (APM), distributed tracing, log management, and infrastructure metrics in a unified view for engineering teams running cloud-native applications. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, Middleware raised approximately $6 million and targets DevOps and SRE teams at growing companies who need comprehensive observability without the cost and complexity of enterprise platforms like Datadog or New Relic.
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