Cinder vs Tines
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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.
Security and IT workflow automation platform (unicorn, Feb 2025 at $1.125B) processing 1B+ automated actions weekly; 200% revenue growth serving Coinbase and LinkedIn competing with Palo Alto XSOAR.
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Tines is a Dublin-based no-code workflow automation platform that originated as a security operations automation tool and has expanded to serve broader IT, infrastructure, and business process automation needs — enabling security and IT teams to build complex automated workflows without programming by connecting APIs, creating conditional logic, and deploying AI agents that act autonomously on data. Founded in 2018 by Eoin Hinchy and Thomas Kinsella (former security engineers at DocuSign and eBay) and backed by Accel and Addition, Tines achieved unicorn status in February 2025 at a $1.125 billion valuation, processing over 1 billion automated actions weekly for customers including Coinbase, Databricks, and LinkedIn, with 200% revenue growth over 18 months.
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